DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SINNERS AND THE MISGUIDED FOLLOWERS:

The example will best illustrate the difference between Sinners and Misguided followers
of Islam.

Let us consider the command of Allah about Praying five time daily salaat. If any
follower believes that he must pray five times daily compulsory salaat but he in practice
prays only couple of salaat. He will be considered as a sinner. He has not contradicted
the order in his belief.
Now any follower who believes that there are only three compulsory prayers, he will be
considered as misguided follower as he has contradicted the order of the Allah or Prophet
(sav) in his belief.

In short, the belief is different thing and the practice of belief is different thing. The fault
in belief leads to kufr (disbelief/disbeliever). The fault in practicing the belief leads to
sins and does not lead to kufr (disbelief/disbeliever).

After understanding this, many problems can be sorted out.

By analyzing in this way, the calculation based moon sighting contradicts original order
of solution of our Prophet (sav) in case the moon is not seen after 29th day of saban
month. Hence it will be considered as misguidance and result is kufr.
Salaat (Namaaz) performed by looking time in watches (clocks) is valid as there is no
contradiction in practice of Namaaz prayed by looking the sun and looking the clocks.
The clocks support the hadis and not contradict any hadis.

To drink wine is a sin but to believe heartily that wine is not prohibited in Islam is a
misguidance and lead to kufr.

To insult our Prophet is Kufr. To find fault in any attributes of our Prophet (sav) is
considered as an insult to him and considered as misguidance and leads to kufr.

One thing must be noted that, the sins can be forgiven but the misguidance is intolerable
and so cannot be forgiven. The Sinners can be forgiven but the Misguided (Gustakh)
cannot be forgiven.

Other lucid example is this:

Suppose two people want to go to Destination “A” from their present location. One
person took wrong way and reached to destination “B” So he is misguided. He cannot
reach the destination.
The second person took the correct way with broken shoes. So, he will reach to his
correct destination “A” but late and by help of some body on the way who gave him new
shoes. This is like the one who committed the sin of not taking proper shoes and has
become late to reach to destination by the help of some body (like sin forgiver/Allah).
Of course, Allah can do what he please. But it Allah’s nature that he normally does not
forgive to misguided people who insult his Prophet (sav) and friends of Allah as per hadis
al qudsi “Allah says that he is on war with those who show enmity to his friends”

In this way it is clear that those people who respect Prophet (sav), the friends of Allah and
their relics and related things are good people and people on the right path even though
they may commit sins like not attending properly compulsory prayers and other minor
sins. As one can see that there are several practices shown in hadis books like istagfar
(repentance) and salat-at-tasbih by which all sins can be forgiven by Allah. So, every
body must know that SINS CAN BE FORGIVEN BUT MISGUIDANCE CANNOT BE
FORGIVEN.

The intention of writing this topic is that, some people in Islam try to degrade the
righteous people by making Salaat (compulsory prayers) as a weapon against them. This
illustration never encourages any body to commit sins.