(141) Anas relates from the Apostle of God that he said: “On the Day of Judgement God will command [the angels stationed at Hell] that whoever may have remembered Him at any time, or feared Him on any occasion, should be taken out of Hell.”
-Tirmidhi and Baihaqi
Commentary.-It is incontrovertible from the point of view of the Quran and the Sunnah that anyone who dies in a state of Apostasy or Polytheism will live permanently in Hell and no act of his will be deemed worthy of securing his release from it. The above Tradition, accordingly, denotes that whoever departs from the world in such a condition that he is not an Apostate or a Polytheist but has committed a great many sins and made no provision for the Hereafter except that he has remembered God at any time, or feared Him on any occasion, will be cast into Hell on the Judgement Day to undergo the punishment for his misdeeds but, after some time, he will be taken out of it because of the Divine fear and remembrance of God.

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