Will all muslims go to paradise.
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would like to knw if all muslims will go to paradise?If a muslim he believes in
Allah but he haas done somany bad things will he go to paradise?people like
osma bin laden saddam hussien they hve killed so many people will they go to
paradise?
I have
read a hadiths actually i donno hw it is but i think it is like this
a muslim will get punished for all his sins but in the end he will go to
paradise and he will get tentimes reward of this world is it true ?this is
applicaple for all muslims good and bad?and i hve heard that only some few
lakhs people will enter paradise is that true??
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Will all muslims go
to paradise
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 none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Your
Question: ….I would like to knw if all muslims will go to paradise?If a muslim
he believes in Allah but he haas done somany bad things will he go to
paradise?people like osma bin laden saddam hussien they hve killed so many
people will they go to paradise?
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 32 Surah
Sajdah verse 19:
19 For those who believe and do righteous deeds are Gardens
as hospitable homes for their (good) deeds.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 42 Surah
Shura verse 22:
22 Thou wilt see the wrongdoers in fear on account of what they have
earned and (the burden of) that must (necessarily) fall on them. But those who believe and work
righteous deeds will be in the luxuriant meads of the Gardens: they
shall have before their Lord all that they wish for: that will indeed be the
magnificent Bounty (of Allah).
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 30 Surah
Rome verse 45:
45 That He may reward those who believe and work righteous deeds
out of His Bounty: for He loves not those who reject Faith.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 31 Surah
Luqmaan verses 8-9:
8 For those who believe and work righteous deeds there
will be Gardens of Bliss.
9 To dwell therein. The promise
of Allah is true: and He is Exalted in Power, Wise.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 47 Surah
Muhammad verse 12:
12 Verily Allah will admit those who believe and do righteous
deeds to Gardens beneath which rivers flow; while those who reject
Allah will enjoy (this world) and eat as cattle eat; and the Fire will be their
abode.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verse 107:
107 As to those who believe and work righteous deeds they
have for their entertainment the Gardens of Paradise
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 85 Surah
Buruj verse 11:
11 For those who believe and do righteous deeds will be
Gardens Beneath which rivers flow: that is the Great Salvation
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah
Hajj verse 23:
23 Allah will admit those who believe and work righteous deeds
to Gardens beneath which rivers flow: they shall be adorned therein with
bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments there will be of silk.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah
Hajj verse 56:
56 On that Day the Dominion will be that of Allah: He will judge
between them: so those who believe and work righteous deeds will
be in Gardens of Delight.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah
Mumin verse 40:
40 He that works evil will not be requited but by the like thereof: and
he that works a righteous deed whether man or woman and is a believer
such will enter the Garden (of Bliss): therein will they have abundance without
measure.
Respected brother in Islam, the Realms of Paradise is the
prerogative of Allah Subhanah Alone; and the two absolutely inseparable
pre-conditions the Lord Most High Most Wise has conveyed in His Message for
one’s entry into the
- Belief,
and
- Righteous
good deeds in accordance with the Guidance of the Lord.
A ‘muslim’ can be divided into two categories:
- A
‘legal’ muslim: ie. one who is born to believing parents, or one who
declares the ‘Shahaadah’, etc.
- A
‘Haqiqi’ or ‘real’ muslim: ie. one who is declared to be a true believer
in the Presence of the All-Knowing, All-Wise Lord on the Day of Judgment.
Thus brother it is not as if every person who declares
himself to be a ‘muslim’ in the life of this world, or names himself an
Abdullah, or Mohamed, or Ayyub, or Jaafar, etc. has an unconditional guarantee
to enter Paradise!
It is the Lord Most Majestic Most Supreme Alone, Who will
Decide and Determine on the Day of Judgment who amongst those who called
themselves ‘muslims’ were indeed ‘real muslims’…..and it is only those
fortunate believers who are declared as ‘real’ muslims by the Lord Most
Merciful who will find themselves in the Mercy of their Lord Most Gracious,
Most Merciful.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 29 Surah
Ankabut verses 10-11:
10 Then there are among men such as say "We believe in
Allah"; but when they suffer affliction in (the Cause of) Allah they treat
men's oppression as if it were the Wrath of Allah! And if help comes (to thee)
from thy Lord they are sure to say "We have (always) been with
you!" Does not Allah know best all
that is in the hearts of all creation?
11 And Allah most certainly knows those who believe, and as certainly
those who are hypocrites!
Hadith Qudsi
6
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: ‘The
first of people against whom judgment will be pronounced on the Day of
Resurrection will be a man who died a martyr (in the Cause of Allah). He will be brought and Allah will make known
to him His favors and he will recognize them.
Allah, The Exalted, will say: ‘And what did you do about them?’ He will say: ‘I fought for You until I died a
martyr (in Your Cause). Allah Subhanah
will Say: ‘You have lied - you did but fight that it might be said [of you]: He
is courageous. And so it was said.’ Then he will be ordered to be dragged along
on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire.
[Another] will be a man who has studied [religious] knowledge and has
taught it and who used to recite the Quran.
He will be brought and Allah will make known to him His favors and he
will recognize them. [The Almighty] will
Say: ‘And what did you do about them?’
He will say: ‘I studied [religious] knowledge and I taught it and I
recited the Quran for Your sake.’ Allah
Subhanah will Say: ‘You have lied - you did but study [religious] knowledge
that it might be said [of you]: He is learned.
And you recited the Quran that it might be said [of you]: He is a
recitor. And so it was said.’ Then he will be ordered to be dragged along
on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire.
[Another] will be a man whom Allah had made rich and to whom He had
given all kinds of wealth. He will be
brought and Allah will make known to him His favors and he will recognize
them. [The Almighty] will Say: ‘And what
did you do about them?’ He will say: ‘I
left no path [untrodden] in which You like money to be spent without spending
in it for Your sake.’ Allah Subhanah
will say: ‘You have lied - you did but do so that it might be said [of you]: He
is open-handed. And so it was
said.’ Then he will be ordered to be
dragged along on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire.’
Sahih Muslim
Hadith 6251 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
Allah's
Messenger (saws) said: ‘Do you know who is a ‘muflis’ (abjectly poor or one who
is totally bankrupt)?’ They (the Companions (r.a.) of the Prophet (saws)) said:
‘A ‘muflis’ amongst us is one who has neither dirham with him nor wealth.’ He
(the Prophet (saws)) said: ‘The ‘muflis’ of my Ummah would be he who would come
on the Day of Resurrection with prayers and fasts and Zakah but (he would find
himself bankrupt on that day as he would have exhausted his funds of virtues)
since he hurled abuses upon others, brought calumny against others, unlawfully
consumed the wealth of others, shed the blood of others, and beat others. His
virtues would be credited to the account of one (who suffered at his hand). And
if his good deeds fall short to clear the account (of his mis-deeds), then
their sins would be entered in (his account) and he would be thrown in the
Hell-Fire!’
Respected brother, in light of the above absolutely clear
guidance of Allah and His Messenger (saws) it is evident that not every one who
considered himself to be a ‘muslim’ in the life of this world will enter
Paradise…..but rather only those whom The Lord Most Gracious Determines to be
true ‘muslims’ on that Inevitable and Tumultuous Day of Judgment will be shown
the Mercy of their Lord Most Merciful.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 21 Surah
Anbiyaa verse 47:
47 We shall set up Scales of Justice for the Day of Judgment so that
not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least. And if there be (no more than) the weight of
a mustard seed (good or evil), We will bring it (to account): and enough are We
to take account.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 160:
160 He that doeth good shall have ten times as much to his credit: he
that doeth evil shall only be recompensed according to his evil. No wrong shall be done unto (any of) them.
Your
Question: …..I have read a hadiths actually i donno hw it is but i think it is
like this a muslim will get punished for all his sins but in the end
he will go to paradise and he will get tentimes reward of this world is it true
?this is applicaple for all muslims good and bad?
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! Beloved brother in Islam, the truth is there
are indeed a few hadiths recorded which state that some believers who had
faith, but because of their evil deeds were condemned to the Hell Fire and
after serving their time in Hell Fire they will be taken out by Allah
Subhanah! Although these narrations are
recorded in the ‘sahih’ category of hadiths, almost all of such hadiths are
related by one narrator and most of the good scholars and jurists are of the
opinion that regardless of the source of the hadith, if any hadith goes against
the clear guidance of the Holy Quran, that hadith cannot be accepted as
‘sahih’.
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!
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 it!
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.
Beloved brother, rest assured
that our Lord 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 major sins
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 as 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 after serving their sentence 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.
Dear and beloved brother in
Islam, if there is one thing which has beguiled some believers to openly
disobey the Commands and Dictates of Islam and transgress the clear boundaries
of Allah and His Messenger (saws)….it is this concept that somehow or the
other, simply because they claimed to be followers of Prophet Mohamed (saws),
they will come out of Hell Fire and enter Paradise….even if it means that they
will go to Hell Fire only for a number of years to pay for their sins!....but
ultimately they will enter Paradise!!!
This is the exact same concept
which was held by the People of the Book and Allah Subhanah Himself has time
and again strongly condemned this very concept and belief of theirs in His
Glorious Quran; and it just does not behove and befit a believer who sincerely
believes in Allah and the Last Day to hold a belief which has been condemned by
their Lord Most High!
Your
Question: ….and i hve heard that only some few lakhs people will enter paradise
is that true??
Respected brother in
Islam, it is not as if there are only a few limited places in Paradise, which
if filled will not accept any more inhabitants…..nor are there limited places
in Hell Fire, which if filled will refuse to accept any more
inhabitants!!!!
To the best of our knowledge there is absolutely no number
ascertained in the Quran or the Sunnah which declares how many will be
Having said that there is no particular number declared in
the Quran and the Sunnah, from the general guidance of the Glorious Quran it is
safe to assume that the inhabitants of Hell Fire will far far exceed the
numbers of the fortunate dwellers of
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 50 Surah
Qaf verses 30-35:
30 One Day We will ask Hell "art thou filled to the
full?" It (Hell) will reply
"are there any more (to come)?" (ie. there is more than sufficient
place for the evildoers!)
31 And the Garden will be brought nigh to the righteous; no more a
thing distant.
32 (A voice will declare:) "This is what was promised for you for
everyone who turned (to Allah) in sincere repentance who kept (His Law).
33 Who feared (Allah) Most Gracious unseen and brought a heart turned
in devotion (to Him):
34 Enter ye therein in Peace and Security;
this is a Day of Eternal Life!"
35 There will be for them therein all that they wish and more besides
in Our Presence.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister