Page 67 - The Secret Behind Our Trials

This Testing Continues until Death
and, finally, they may deny Allah. At that point, all that they have
done or believed up to that point loses its value, and all rewards are
cancelled. Allah reveals this reality in several verses:
... As for any of you who revert from their religion and die as
an unbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in this
world and the Hereafter. They are the Companions of the
Fire, remaining in it timelessly, forever. (Surat al-Baqara,
217)
It has been revealed to you and those before you: "If you as-
sociate others with Allah, your actions will come to nothing
and you will be among the losers." (Surat az-Zumar, 65)
… those who believe ask: "Are these the people who swore
by Allah, with their most earnest oaths, that they were with
you?" Their actions have come to nothing, and they now are
losers. O you who believe. If any of you renounce your reli-
gion, Allah will bring forward a people whom He loves and
who love Him, humble to the believers, fierce to the unbe-
lievers, who strive in the Way of Allah and do not fear the
blame of any censurer. That is the unbounded favor of
Allah, which He gives to whoever He wills. Allah is
Boundless, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Ma'ida, 53-54)
In the Qur'an, Allah tells us that some believers later rejected
their belief and how far they deviated from the true path:
As for those who believe and then return to unbelief, and
then again believe and then return to unbelief, and then in-
crease in unbelief, Allah will not forgive them or guide them
on any path. (Surat an-Nisa', 137)
Those who reject belief after believing and then increase in
their unbelief, their repentance will not be accepted. They
are the misguided. (Surah Al `Imran, 90)

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