His servant in the slightest, as He says:

“So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it.”

“And whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it.”

Thus, “the threat of punishment” is averted from him through repentance, through good deeds he performs that counterbalance his evil deeds, through afflictions by which Allah expiates his sins, or through other means. Just as the hadiths conveying threats are put forward, so too are the hadiths conveying promises.

A person may say, “There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah,” yet deny that prayer and zakah are obligatory. Such a person is an unbeliever who must be put to death. Or a person may be among those who commit major sins and deserve the Fire. This “question of promise and threat” is one of the most important questions of religious knowledge. We have discussed it at length elsewhere, but here we have written only as much as this sheet can accommodate.