When Allah
intends good for a servant, He takes away looking at his righteous deeds from
his heart and informing people about it with his tongue, and preoccupies him
with his own sins. So he will always direct his attention to it until he
enters Paradise. The deeds that will be
accepted are those devoid of the servant’s looking at it and informing people
about it with his own tongue.
One of the pious predecessors said: “Indeed a servant may
commit a sin by which he enters Paradise; and he may do a good deed by which he
enters the Fire.” It was asked, “How is that?” So he replied, “He commits a sin
and constantly directs his attention to it; whenever
he remembers it, he regrets, avoids it, humbles himself to Allah, hastens
towards erasing it, submits himself to his Lord, and his pride and conceit
leaves him. But he may perform a righteous deed, constantly direct his attention to it,
look at it, transgress and become proud of it until he enters the Fire!”
See :Tareeq al-Hijratayn wa Baab as-Sa‘aadatayn, p. 169-172 by Imaam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (may Allaah have mercy on him)
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