Can Non-Muslims Go To Heaven?

[cute2904]

r.gonzales:

i think hashi’s right about you being ignorant of what we believe. i suggest you read the post i put up and that was quoted by jcaz, which is just above your post.

I never call somebody ignorant for whatever they say. its freedom of speech. you can defend your faith so do I. I bring forth the proof then you ask me to read what you posting here? I have read. I live in where majority is muslim. And what muslim do to us are not the nice things one. I believe what I see not believe in someone’s postings.

 

[gurrato_alaien]

Greg00:

I have heard conflicting answers to this question everywhere I go. So I am just asking for a straight answer here. Do Muslims believe it is possible for Non-Muslims to go to heaven and if so what are the prerequisites (if any)? I have heard people quote the Koran on this subject to support both side and am very confused.

Peace be upon you all

I’d like to post the answer with some details because this is very important topic for brothers christians:

Can a non-Muslim go to Heaven?

To avoid any confusion in the matter I think the best way to address this question is by dividing it into two parts:

1. Can a non-Muslim who received the message of Islam as brought by Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and denied its truth and died on a state other than the state of Islam, ever be admitted Paradise?!
2. Can a non-Muslim who did not receive the message of Islam and died on a state other than the state of Islam, be admitted to Paradise?!

Now, the answer to the first question is what Shaikh Muhammad bin Saleh Al Munajjad described as very clear in his reply. On the light of both the Quran and Sunnah this person is never going to enter Jannah…and Hell would be His final abode…& there is clear cut evidence for this from both the Quran and the Hadith of our beloved Prophet Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

In the Quran Allah the Most Exalted the Most High says:

Verily, those who belie Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and treat them with arrogance, for them the gates of heaven will not be opened, and they will not enter Paradise until the camel goes through the eye of the needle (which is impossible). Thus do We recompense the Mujrimûn (criminals, polytheists, sinners, etc.). (Al-A’raf:40)

Then, who does more wrong than one who utters a lie against Allâh, and denies the truth [this Qur’ân, the Prophet (Muhammad SAW), the Islâmic Monotheism, the Resurrection and the reward or punishment according to good or evil deeds] when it comes to him! Is there not in Hell an abode for the disbelievers? (Az-Zumar:32)

Allaah (swt) tells us that the keeper of Hell will ask the kuffaar as they
are approaching Hell:

“Did there not come to you your messengers with clear signs?” (40:50)

The response will be that they deserved Hell because they disbelieved in the Messengers and their Message:

"They will say, “Yes indeed; a Warner did come to us, but we rejected him” and said: “Allaah never sent down any [Message] you are in nothing but a great error!” (67:9)

Concerning those who disbelieved in the Qur’aan, Allaah (swt) says:

“for We have sent you a Message from Our own presence. If any do turn away therefrom, verily they will bear a burden on the Day of Judgement. They will abide in this [state] and grievous will that burden be to them on that Day”. (20:99-101)

Concerning those who disbelieve the Qur’aan and associate partners with
Allaah (swt), Allaah (swt) says:

"Those who reject the Book and the [Revelations] with which We sent Our
Messengers: but soon shall they know, when the yokes [shall be] round their necks, and the chains, they shall be dragged along. In the boiling fetid fluid, then in the Fire shall they be burned. Then shall it be said to them,

“Where are the deities to which you gave part-worship in derogation to Allaah? They will reply: “They have left us in the lurch. Nay, we invoked not, of old, anything [that had real existence].” Thus does Allaah leave the unbelievers to stray. That was because you were want to rejoice on the earth in things other than the Truth, and that you were want to be ignorant. Enter the gates of Hell, to dwell therein and evil is [this] abode of the arrogant”. (40:70-76)

Concerning those kuffaar (disbelievers) and mushrikeen (polytheists) who regarded their gods as equal to the Rabb of the Worlds, Allaah (swt) says:

"Then they will be thrown headlong into the [Fire] - they and those straying in Evil and the whole hosts of Iblees together. They will say there in their mutual bickerings: “By Allaah, we were truly in an error manifest, when we held you [false gods] as equals with the Rabb of the Worlds” (26:94-98)

Concerning the fate on the Day of Judgement of those who disbelieved, Allaah said:

“If you do marvel [at their want of faith] strange is their saying: “When we are [actually] dust, shall we indeed then be a creation renewed?” They are those who disbelieve in their Rabb! They are those around whose necks will be yokes [of servitude]. They will be Companions of the Fire to dwell therein [for aye]!” (13:5)

To be continued…

 

[gurrato_alaien]

Continued…

"…their abode will be Hell; every time it shows abatement, We shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire. That is their recompense, because they rejected Our Signs and said, “When we are reduced to bones and broken fragments, should we really be raised up [to be] a new creation?” (17:97-98)

When the kuffaar are thrown into Hell they will be filled with regret for
having disobeyed Allaah and His Messenger and having followed their masters and leaders:

"Verily Allaah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a blazing Fire, to dwell therein; no protector will they find, nor helper. The Day that their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire, they will say, “Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed Allaah and obeyed the Messenger”. And they would say, “Our Rabb! We obeyed our chiefs and our great ones and they misled us as from the

Path”. (33:64-67)

as for the second the question:

1. Can a non-Muslim who did not receive the message of Islam and died on a state other than the state of Islam, be admitted to Paradise?!

I think that to get the islamic viewpoint regarding this question, we must be familiair with the term Ahl al-Fatrah (The People of the Interval)…

I prefer to share with you the words of a prominent scholar, Shaikh Naasiur-Deen al-Albaanee who has been asked a question regarding those people…(note: emphasis added)…:

By Shaikh Naasirud-Deen al-Albaanee

Question: What is meant by the term Ahl al-Fatrah (People of the Interval)? What is the ruling concerning them in the next life; and are the Arabs of the period of Jaahiliyyah considered to be among the People of the Interal?

Sh. Naasir’s response: The term Ahl al-Fatrah refers to everyone whom the da’wah (message of Islaam) has not reached in a correct manner as it came in the Sharee‘ah. However, it is not possible to identify each and every individual among the People of the Interval. First and foremost it is not possible because it is beyond human ability to identify each and every individual; and secondly because their identification did not come in the Qur’aan or the Sunnah. Furthermore, the term Ahl al-Fatrah and its use in reference to those whom the da’wah has not reached is a form of technical terminology [coined by scholars]. There is nothing to prevent its usage as every person or group has the right to set its own terminology as long it does not contradict the Qur’aan and Sunnah.

We find in the Qur’aan the [following] statements,

“I will not punish people until I send a messenger to them.”2

And

“Say: To Allaah belongs the clear proof. Had He so willed, He would have guided all of you.”3

and

“If Allaah wished all people would have been guided.”4

It is impossible to say that all the people of a particular time are from Ahlul-Fatrah. Instead it may be said that the da’wah of a messenger or a prophet has not reached those from Ahlul-Fatrah, according to the meaning indicated by the verses, and that such people will not be punished on the Day of Judgement [for their disbelief in this world]. However, there is no way to specify who they are or in what period they existed. Consequently, it is quite possible for People of the Inteval to exist in every time period, whether before [the revelation of the final message of] Islaam or after.

So whether or not a certain non-Muslim is from Ahl Al Fatrah only Allah knows, and Allah knows best where their final abode will be…

May the Peace and the Mercy of God be Upon You all​

 

[cute2904]

Let me add some of the verses here

[al-Ma’idah 5:36] As for those who disbelieve, lo! if all that is in the earth were theirs, and as much again therewith, to ransom them from the doom on the Day of Resurrection, it would not be accepted from them. Theirs will be a painful doom.

[al-Kahf 18:106] That is their reward: hell, because they disbelieved, and made a jest of Our revelations and Our messengers.

[Ta Ha 20:100] Whoso turneth away from it, he verily will bear a burden on the Day of Resurrection,

What about those who have loved others? We humans put a great emphasis on loving and helping each other and on charitable works, but for Allah all that is irrelevant.

[al-`Ankabut 29:25] The love between you is only in the life of the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection ye will deny each other and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and ye will have no helpers.

Those who did not accept Allah will easily be recognized because they will have their faces “blackened”.

[az-Zumar 39:60] And on the Day of Resurrection thou (Muhammad) seest those who lied concerning Allah with their faces blackened. Is not the home of the scorners in hell?

In one place one is lead to believe that the people of the scriptures, i.e. the Jews and the Christians are saved,

[al-Hajj 22:17] Lo! those who believe (this revelation), and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans and the Christians and the Magians and the idolaters - Lo! Allah will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection. Lo! Allah is Witness over all things.

Then again, this is contradicted by another verse.

[al-Ma’idah 5:14] And with those who say: “Lo! we are Christians,” We made a covenant, but they forgot a part of that whereof they were admonished. Therefore We have stirred up enmity and hatred among them till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will inform them of their handiwork.

The same is said of the Jews (Q.10:93). So don’t be surprised to see Mother Theresa burning in the Hell while Khomeni and Saddam Hussein who believed in Allah and his messenger sitting under the shade of a tree with a pretty hoory at their right side and another at their left, sipping from the chilled wine in Paradise. (quote)

 

[sainted]

C’mon you can write out the whole koran but if the basic idea of your heaven is getting on with some virgins, drinking wine or eating gold food or whatever. I say this to you, I will make everything possible in my power to make sure I don’t wind up in the muslim heaven.

The heaven I’m headed is where seeing the Face of God and coming face to face with God is the ultimate pleasure and reward!!!

 

[cute2904]

sainted:

C’mon you can write out the whole koran but if the basic idea of your heaven is getting on with some virgins, drinking wine or eating gold food or whatever. I say this to you, I will make everything possible in my power to make sure I don’t wind up in the muslim heaven.

The heaven I’m headed is where seeing the Face of God and coming face to face with God is the ultimate pleasure and reward!!!

 

[fatuma]

Can Non-Muslims Go To Heaven?

Everybody who ever had an atoms weights of belief in the one True God will eventually end up in heaven, it’s just that following Islam will get you a one way ticket to heaven faster.

Here is a lovely description of Heaven. Remember that the things we receive in heaven is just a reward, the true and only reward that makes this life barely and the next not so scary is and all Muslims are really hoping for is just to be in the presence of God for all eternity, glorifying Him.

And if you ask about the Day of Increase (in reward) and the visit of the all-Mighty, all-Wise, and the sight of His Face - free from any resemblance or likeness to anything - as you see the Sun in the middle of the day and the full Moon on a cloudless night, then listen on the day that the caller will call: ‘O People of Paradise! Your Lord - Blessed and Exalted - requests you to visit Him, so come to visit Him!’ So they will say: ‘We hear and obey!’

Until, when they finally reach the wide valley where they will all meet - and none of them will turn down the request of the caller - the Lord - Blessed and Exalted - will order His Chair to be brought there. Then, pulpits of light will emerge, as well as pulpits of pearls, gemstone, gold, and silver. The lowest of them in rank will sit on sheets of musk, and will not see what those who are on the chairs above them are given. When they are comfortable where they are sitting and are secure in their places, and the caller calls: ‘O People of Paradise! You have an appointment with Allaah in which He wishes to reward you!’ So they will say: ‘And what is that reward? Has He not already made our faces bright, made our scales heavy, entered us into Paradise, and pushed us away from the Fire?’

And when they are like that, all of a sudden a light shines that encompasses all of Paradise. So, they raise their heads, and, behold: the Compeller - Exalted is He, and Holy are His Names - has come to them from above them and majestified them and said: ‘O People of Paradise! Peace be upon you!’ So, this greeting will not be responded to with anything better than: ‘O Allaah! You are Peace, and from You is Peace! Blessed are You, O possessor of Majesty and Honor!’ So the Lord - Blessed and Exalted - will laugh to them and say: ‘O People of Paradise! Where are those who used to obey Me without having ever seen Me? This is the Day of Increase!’

So, they will all give the same response: ‘We are pleased, so be pleased with us!’ So, He will say: ‘O People of Paradise! If I were not pleased with you, I would not have made you inhabitants of My Paradise! So, ask of Me!’ So, they will all give the same response: ‘Show us your Face so that we may look at it!’ So, the Lord - Mighty and Majestic - will remove his covering and will majestify them and will cover them with His Light, which, if Allaah - the Exalted - had not Willed not to burn them, would have burned them.

And there will not remain a single person in this gathering except that his Lord - the Exalted - will speak to him and say: ‘Do you remember the day that you did this and that?’ and He will remind him of some of his bad deeds in the Worldy life, so he will say: ‘O Lord! Will you not forgive me?’ So, He will say: ‘Of course! You have not reached this position of yours (in Paradise) except by my forgiveness.’

So, how sweet is this speech to the ears, and how cooled are the righteous eyes by the glance at His Noble Face in the Afterlife…

wa salam

 

[r.gonzales]

cute2904:

I never call somebody ignorant for whatever they say. its freedom of speech.

freedom of speech? then i should be free to call anyone ignorant who displays its signs… and from what you’ve displayed here, you’re ignorant of what we muslims believe regarding the topic of this thread: whether or not non-muslims can attain paradise. and btw, ignorant just means lack of knowledge regarding whatever that person is ignorant of.

as for your proofs, then all those verses and quotes you bring have their explanations and context. explanations given by MUSLIMS who are more knowledgeable of their religion than those who don’t ascribe to it.

 

[cute2904]

r.gonzales:

freedom of speech? then i should be free to call anyone ignorant who displays its signs… and from what you’ve displayed here, you’re ignorant of what we muslims believe regarding the topic of this thread: whether or not non-muslims can attain paradise. and btw, ignorant just means lack of knowledge regarding whatever that person is ignorant of.

as for your proofs, then all those verses and quotes you bring have their explanations and context. explanations given by MUSLIMS who are more knowledgeable of their religion than those who don’t ascribe to it.

I told in the first place that my answer is NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. You just denied for what I quoted, they all were from your own books. If you want to call me ignorant, well feel free to say so. , I didnt quote verses from other books but yours.

 

[Edris]

cute2904:

Let me add some of the verses here

     Is this how you take religion,  a joke,  Your eternal life after your death depends on it.     What you are doing is exactly explained in the same verses you are Quoting.

[al-Kahf 18:106]
That is their reward: hell, because they disbelieved, and made a jest of Our revelations and Our messengers.

 

[r.gonzales]

cute2904:

I told in the first place that my answer is NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. You just denied for what I quoted, they all were from your own books. If you want to call me ignorant, well feel free to say so. , I didnt quote verses from other books but yours.

the first reply you posted with the narration saying that prophet muhammad will be married to mary and pharoah’s wife is not from our own books, it’s from an article by that liar sam shamoun.

had shamoun known anything about the islamic branch of knowledge pertaining to hadeeth, he would have noticed that ibn kathir mentions himself after quoting the narration a statement from one of the scholars who reported that hadeeth that it’s weak, thus it cannot be attributed to prophet muhammad as one of his statements.

in my copy of qasas al-anbiya, which has had all the weak narrations from the original removed, the very narration quoted by shamoun is not included in the text, which also shows that it’s a weak narration that cannot be relied upon.

as for those quotes from the Quran, as i mentioned, they have their context and you clearly don’t understand it. gurrato alaien and myself have already posted the correct answers to the question posed by the one who started this thread.

 

[cute2904]

r.gonzales:

the first reply you posted with the narration saying that prophet muhammad will be married to mary and pharoah’s wife is not from our own books, it’s from an article by that liar sam shamoun.

had shamoun known anything about the islamic branch of knowledge pertaining to hadeeth, he would have noticed that ibn kathir mentions himself after quoting the narration a statement from one of the scholars who reported that hadeeth that it’s weak, thus it cannot be attributed to prophet muhammad as one of his statements.

in my copy of qasas al-anbiya, which has had all the weak narrations from the original removed, the very narration quoted by shamoun is not included in the text, which also shows that it’s a weak narration that cannot be relied upon.

as for those quotes from the Quran, as i mentioned, they have their context and you clearly don’t understand it. gurrato alaien and myself have already posted the correct answers to the question posed by the one who started this thread.

So you admit for the 72 virgins that wait for you guys there in heaven?..

 

[r.gonzales]

cute2904:

So you admit for the 72 virgins that wait for you guys there in heaven?..

now where in any of my posts did i mention anything about 72 virgins waiting for us in heaven?

 

[cute2904]

r.gonzales:

now where in any of my posts did i mention anything about 72 virgins waiting for us in heaven?

I did. thats why I asked you

 

[r.gonzales]

cute2904:

I did. thats why I asked you

you need to learn how to phrase your questions better. your question implies that i mentioned such in my posts, which i did not.

as for this 72 virgins thing, what i believe is that the male believers will have purified wives in paradise and that the female believers will have their husbands. as for their number, then the narrations that mention them, from what i remember, are weak and thus cannot be used as evidence to stipulate religious beliefs.

 

[cute2904]

r.gonzales:

you need to learn how to phrase your questions better. your question implies that i mentioned such in my posts, which i did not.

as for this 72 virgins thing, what i believe is that the male believers will have purified wives in paradise and that the female believers will have their husbands. as for their number, then the narrations that mention them, from what i remember, are weak and thus cannot be used as evidence to stipulate religious beliefs.

Sorry for my poor english. I will make it better next time. So if men got purified wives in paradise… what women could get in paradise? are we getting the same like what you guys get?

 

[r.gonzales]

cute2904:

Sorry for my poor english. I will make it better next time. So if men got purified wives in paradise… what women could get in paradise? are we getting the same like what you guys get?

read my post again…

 

[cute2904]

r.gonzales:

read my post again…

**then what kind of women could enter such lucky paradise as your books say : **

Sahih Muslim Book 036, Number 6600 Imran b. Husain reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Amongst the inmates of Paradise the women would form a minority.

Is it because your prophet know that women would commited sin more than men do or because they are not thankful and ungrateful to their husbands?

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 126 The Prophet said, “I looked at Paradise and saw that the majority of its residents were the poor; and I looked at the (Hell) Fire and saw that the majority of its residents were women.”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 2, Number 28 The Prophet said: “I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful.” It was asked, “Do they disbelieve in Allah?” (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied, “They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her liking), she will say, 'I have never received any good from you.”

or because women deficient in intelligent?

Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 6, Number 301 Once Allah’s Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o 'Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Apostle ?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.” The women asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?” They replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?” The women replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion.”

 

[Emad]

Sure non-Muslims can easily go to heaven. All they have to do is simply become Muslim.

 

[exoflare]

Emad:

Sure non-Muslims can easily go to heaven. All they have to do is simply become Muslim.

That really is the orthodox Muslim belief, though.