When people go to the hell fire and they serve there time there if they can get out and u answered and said once someone goes in the hell fire they can never get out
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i just wanted to ask u something, i was reading the questions and answers on
the website and i came across a question that someone had asked u saying when
people go to the hell fire and they serve there time there if they can get out
and u answered and said once someone goes in the hell fire they can never get
out, but how come i have heard in alot of other islamic tapes saying that when
someone has served there time in the hell fire for the sins that they did they
will come out one day. and also there is some where it describes the last
person to come out off the hell fire what they will be offered to ALLAH Subhana
in paradise, please explain to us clear about the two situation, and forgive me
please if i mis-understood you some how
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Answer:
Hell forever
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
As far as the state of the hypocrites, the
disbelievers, and the polytheists
(mushriks) goes, Allah Subhanah has made
it abundantly clear that these people will never ever get out of the Hell Fire.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verses 36-37:
36 As
to those who reject faith, if they had
everything on earth and twice repeated to give as ransom for the penalty of the
Day of Judgment, it would never be
accepted of them. Theirs would be a
grievous penalty.
37 Their
wish will be to get out of the fire, but
never will they get out therefrom:
their penalty will be one that endures.
Nowhere in the Quran is it mentioned that one who
is condemned to Hell Fire, will be taken
out after some time; and absolutely
nowhere in the Quran is it mentioned that the believers will go into Hell Fire!
The
Glorious Quran has severely condemned this exact belief of the People of the
Book, who believed that even if they did
go to Hell for some of their mis-deeds,
Allah would take them out of Hell!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verses 23-25:
23 Hast
thou not turned thy vision to those who have been given a portion of the
Book? They are invited to the Book of
Allah to settle their dispute, but a
party of them turn back and decline (the arbitration).
24 This
because they say: "The fire shall not touch us but for a few numbered
days"; for their forgeries deceive them as to their own
religion.
25 But
how (will they fare), when We gather
them together against a Day about which there is no doubt, and each soul will be paid out just what it
has earned without (favor or injustice)?
Allah Says in the
Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verses 78-82:
78 And there are among them illiterates who know not the Book but (see
therein their own) desires and they do nothing but conjecture.
79 Then woe to those who write the book with their own hands and then say:
"This is from Allah" to traffic with it for a miserable price! Woe to
them for what their hands do write and for the gain they make thereby.
80 And they say: "The fire shall not touch us but for a few numbered
days"; Say: "Have ye taken a promise from Allah for He never breaks
His promise? Or is it that ye say of
Allah what ye do not know?"
81 Nay those who seek gain in evil and are girt round by their sins they
are Companions of the Fire therein shall they abide (for ever).
82 But those who have faith and work righteousness they are Companions of
the Garden therein shall they abide (for ever).
Unfortunately,
this belief, that a believer will
spend some time in Hell and will then be released has also crept into the
muslim Ummah! The Quran is extremely
clear in its verdict that one who goes to Hell will stay in it forever; and the one who goes to
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 101 Surah Al-Qaaria verses 6-11:
6 Then
he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy
7 Will
be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
8 But
he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light
9 Will
have his home in a (bottomless) pit.
10 And
what will explain to thee what this is?
11 (It
is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
Your Question: but how come i have heard in alot of
other islamic tapes saying that when someone has served there time in the hell
fire for the sins that they did they will come out one day.
There
are indeed a few hadiths that state that some believers may come out of the
Hell Fire after some time. First and
foremost nowhere in the Quran is it mentioned that believers will go to Hell
Fire and secondly, one of the conditions of accepting any hadith as authentic
or ‘sahih’, is that it can never go
against any clear guidance and teachings of the Holy Quran. And the Holy Quran is extremely clear in its
context that one who is condemned to the Hell Fire, will not be allowed to come out of there.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 32 Surah As-Sajdah verse 20:
As to those who are
rebellious and wicked, their abode will
be the Fire: every time they wish to get
away therefrom, they will be forced
thereinto, and it will be said to them:
"taste ye the Penalty of the Fire,
which ye were wont to reject as false.
Allah
Subhanah, The Most Merciful, Most Gracious will never condemn a true believer who
died on faith to the Hell Fire! If some
believer has committed a major sin like zina, murder, eating riba, transgression
of Allah’s Laws, etc. , and died in a state whereby he could not repent and
seek Taubah; then his state is the Sole Hands of Allah Subhanah Alone! He may, if He wills, forgive him; or punish
him in the grave, or punish him on the
Day of Judgment itself; and then have
Mercy on him and forgive him and save him from the eternal Hell Fire.
Allah says in the Quran: Chapter 4 Surah
An-Nisa Verse 48
Shirk (associating other deities with
Allah) is the only sin that Allah does not forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever
He pleases, sins other than this. For
whosoever associates any other partner with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie
and commits the most heinous sin
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 4.445 Narrated
by Abu Dhar
The Prophet (saws) said, "Jibrael said to me, 'Whoever amongst
your followers die without having worshipped others besides Allah, will enter
Hadith Qudsi 34
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said that Allah Subhanah, Glorified and
Exalted is He, says: “O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me,
I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the
clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive
you. O son of Adam, were you to come to
Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me,
ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great at
it!”
But
to believe that one who is so wretched that he has been condemned by the Lord
to the Hell Fire will somehow come out of Hell Fire is a belief of the People
of Book and the pagans, and Allah Subhanah has Himself condemned this very
belief in His Glorious Quran! It does
not behove a believer, who sincerely
believes in Allah and the Last Day, to
hold a belief which the Merciful has Himself condemned in the Glorious Quran.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance
and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me.
Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister