The reply to this misunderstanding:
First: Allah, the Almighty, never oppresses His servants, and this is proved by the following:
1 – Allah, the Almighty, says: {That is for what your hands have put forth and because Allah is not ever unjust to [His] servants} (The Family of Imran:182).
2 – Allah, the Almighty, says: {Indeed, Allah does not do injustice, [even] as much as an atom's weight; while if there is a good deed, He multiplies it and gives from Himself a great reward} (The Women:40).
3 – Allah, the Almighty, says: {Whoever does righteousness - it is for his [own] soul; and whoever does evil [does so] against it. And your Lord is not ever unjust to [His] servants} (Explained in Detail:46).
4 – Allah, the Almighty, says: {And We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. And they were not availed at all by their gods which they invoked other than Allah when there came the command of your Lord. And they did not increase them in other than ruin} (Hud:101).
5 – Allah, the Almighty, says to His prophet (PBUH): { And the record [of deeds] will be placed [open], and you will see the criminals fearful of that within it, and they will say, "Oh, woe to us! What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?" And they will find what they did present [before them]. And your Lord does injustice to no one} (The Cave:49).
Therefore, if Allah, the Almighty, doesn't oppress His servants, so this indicates that He's the most just…
The speech the objectors attacked may seem to be a humiliation for them; as it's a torture to be given the sins of others. Clearly, those sins don't affect them; because they are already in hellfire, and this is Allah's blessing for the believers, so that they become satisfied, scorn the disbelievers, and pity them.
I say: This shall be clearer by giving examples: there's a student having an exam in a certain subject; there are five questions in the exam paper, three of which are obligatory. The student answers the three
questions, then answers one of the optional questions, and the result is that he fails in the three obligatory questions. When the examiner corrects the answers of the optional question, he finds the student fails as well, so he adds the grade of that optional question to the grades of the three obligatory questions; he has already failed, and by adding the grade of the optional question he's still a failure.
In this way, we believe that the Jews and the Christians will go to hellfire if they die with their disbelief; Allah, the Almighty, says: {Indeed, those who disbelieved and averted [people] from the path of Allah and then died while they were disbelievers - never will Allah forgive them} (Muhammad:34). This is in case if we take the outer meaning of the speech, and some scholars said the speech refers to the evil Jews and Christians, because many Jews and Christians try to corrupt Muslims through media, sex, and drugs…Those abdominal actions cause Muslims to commit sins, which Allah, the Almighty will forgive by His pardon, and will be put on the disbelievers, as they urged Muslims to commit sins. This is proved in the following:
1 – Allah, the Almighty, says: {Those who disbelieved and averted [others] from the way of Allah - We will increase them in punishment over [their] punishment for what corruption they were causing} (The Bees:88).
In The Facile Interpretation: Those who denied that Allah is the only God, and that you, Muhammad, is His prophet, those who called you a liar, and prevented others from believing in Allah and His messenger, We will increase them in punishment for their disbelief and preventing people from following the path of truth, because of their intention to corrupt and aberrate people by sins and disbelief.
2 – Allah, the Almighty, says: {But they will surely carry their [own] burdens and [other] burdens along with their burdens, and they will surely be questioned on the Day of Resurrection about what they used to invent} (The Spider:13).
In The Facile Interpretation: Those disbelievers will carry their own burdens and sins, and the sins of those whom they aberrated and prevented from following the way of Allah. The sins of their followers will be put on them without any deduction, and they will be asked by Allah, the Almighty, about the lies they used to fabricate.
3 – The Correct Muslim, no. 1691, the messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: "He who sets a good precedent in Islam, there is a reward for him for this (act of goodness) and reward of that also who acted according to it subsequently, without any deduction from their rewards; and he who sets in Islam an evil precedent, there is upon him the burden of that, and the burden of him also who acted upon it subsequently, without any deduction from their burden".
4 – Al Nawawi mentioned in his interpretation:
"On the day of judgment, some Muslims will come with sins" means that Allah will forgive those sins, and will put like them on the Jews and the Christians for their sins and disbelief, so that they will enter hellfire due to their deeds, not due to Muslims sins, as Allah, the Almighty, says: {and no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another} (The Cattle:164).
"will be put" means that Allah, the Almighty, will put sins on the Jews and Christians like those of Muslims due to their original sins. When Allah, the Almighty, forgave the Muslims' sins, and kept the Jews' and the Christians' sins, they became like those who carried the sin of both groups (believers and disbelievers) as they carried the kept sins, which are their own sins. Another possible meaning is that the Jews and the Christians will carry sins they were the reason for, as they invented them and some Muslims followed them. So, Allah, the Almighty, will forgive Muslims by His pardon, and will put like them on the disbelievers, as "he who sets in Islam an evil precedent, there is upon him the burden of that, and the burden of him also who acted upon it subsequently, without any deduction from their burden".
