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What were Al Bouti last words?

In this video, Syria’s Sunni cleric Sheikh Saeed Ramadan Al Bouti gives his last religious seminar in a mosque in Damascus. At 20:10, a bomb goes off

In the beginning of his lecture, he says this lesson marks the 200th lesson in a series about interpreting the Quran. At the minute 16:23, he drinks water and starts speaking about the last point before he died.

He mentions a part of the Quran that says certain types of unbelievers will burn in Hell for eternity. He says some people question that and say how can God put someone in Hell for eternity when He is “merciful” and that His mercy precedes his rage.

“[They say] However arrogant, disobedient, ungrateful, oppressive, killer, slaughterer this unbeliever is, whether he lives one hundred year or more, he should be punished for that duration or even double that ten times but that should end. Those who say these things raise questions but they don’t exert efforts to review the books of jurisprudence, interpretation to know the answer. He is good at raising questions, he sits in public forums and raises questions. Why don’t you sit and study? Had you studiesd you’d have known the answer.

"What’s the answer? The answer is that God rewards a man based on the man’s intention, of course the deed is important but deeds without intention are meaningless.. God rewards a man based on the intention that crowns his deed ... [cut]..

"A righteous person has in mind that if he lives for millions of years, he will continue on this path. The longer he lives, the closer to God and more committed he gets. This is what he has in mind. If he does not have that in mind, then he is not a believer. So God in the Judgment Day rewards him based on what? On his intention. His intention is that even if he lived for eternity, he would remain a worshiper of God and [remains] on the path set by God. This person deserves eternity in paradise.

"The same goes for unbeliever. An unbeliever has in mind that if he lives a thousand years or more, his conviction will remain the same. He does not, as the layman would say, get down from his donkey at all [does not change his mind]. That is his conviction.

"Just like a believer deserves to be rewarded based on his intention, so does the unbeliever deserve to be punished based on his intention. Is that clear? This is a fact. Ok, we know that an atheist is not set in his time, his decision to be atheist is a lasting decision. Is that clear? If someone has in mind he is atheist, if it becomes clear to him later in one year or two or three years that he is mistaken, he will go back, God will surely bring him closer. That one is not a problem.

Hassan Hassan
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