Does the perpetrator of major sins abide eternally in Hell, based on the verses: "And whoever does that shall receive the recompense of sin. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace" and "And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally; and Allah has become angry with him and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great torment," in addition to hadiths such as: "Whoever seizes the right of a Muslim person by his oath, Allah has made Hell obligatory for him and Paradise forbidden for him," and "The severer of kinship ties shall not enter Paradise," and "No one who has in his heart an atom's weight of pride will enter Paradise," and "A slanderer will not enter Paradise," contrary to the view of the Ahlus-Sunnah?

The approach of the people of truth is that the evidences of the Sharia do not contradict each other, and all of them are truth from Allah. We deal with ambiguous texts by referring them to the clear ones. Texts that indicate the eternity of some disobedient individuals in Hellfire or their inability to enter Paradise must be understood in light of the other texts that differentiate between Shirk (polytheism) and lesser major sins. These texts clarify that Tawhid (monotheism) necessitates mercy, and that a disobedient monotheist may be punished, then exit Hellfire and enter Paradise through intercession or Allah's mercy. Scholars have interpreted the eternity of the disobedient in Hellfire as a prolonged period, not perpetual eternity, or that the threat is directed at one who considers the sin permissible, or that it is a form of deterrence and severity, or that such a person will not enter Paradise with the first group of entrants.