What is the difference between reckoning and punishment?
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Punishment is the retribution for a criminal's crime, while reckoning is the accountability of a servant for what he has done. He may be punished for what he has done, or he may be forgiven. His reckoning may be easy or difficult, and he may enter Paradise without reckoning.
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