It is also established in Sahīh Muslim that Allah says:

“My servant, I fell ill, but you did not visit Me.” He says, “My Lord, how could I visit You when You are the Lord of all worlds?” He replies, “My servant so-and-so fell ill, but you did not visit him. Had you visited him, you would have found Me with him.”

Allah has declared:

“Whoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter, We increase his harvest for him.”

And He says:

“But whoever desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he ought, while being a believer—it is they whose striving will be appreciated.”
Surah al-Isrā’, 19

In short, this whole line of thinking denies what Allah has promised His righteous servants and attributes to Allah something He has declared Himself free of: wronging His servants by allowing their righteous deeds to go to waste through no sin or transgression of theirs. It likens Allah to a miserly, unjust master and the like, while excusing oneself and claiming to have fulfilled one’s duty. It thus contains no small measure of arrogance and pretension.

The indisputable truth is that all of this can only result from the servant’s negligence and transgression: either the deed he has done is not righteous, or he has committed sins that hold him back. The servant is merely unjust and ignorant, believing that he has