Paradise and Hell
1,670 questions
What happens to human bodies after death and at the Resurrection, and will their bodies remain as they are in Paradise and Hellfire, or will they be given other bodies?
How can one reconcile the Hadith, "Whoever's last words are 'La ilaha illa Allah' (There is no god but Allah) will enter Paradise," with the Hadith, "Allah accepts the repentance of a servant as long as he does not gurgle [i.e., as long as the soul has not reached the throat before death]?"
To what extent does illness intercede for its owner, does prayer become waived for a patient suffering from hepatic coma, and is one who dies from ascites considered among those protected from the trial of the grave?
Is it true that every Muslim must enter Hellfire before Paradise, except for the prophets and martyrs, and is this statement despairing of God's mercy?
How does one afflicted with doubt in creed exit Islam, considering Allah Almighty's saying: "No one who has in his heart an atom's weight of faith will enter Hellfire," and how is a person held accountable for intellectual doubt that is beyond their will?
What are the surahs that can be recited for a nine-and-a-half-year-old girl who suffers from recurrent sleep disturbances and is afraid of death and not entering Paradise, despite her commitment to acts of worship? And what is the solution to help her, and is it obligatory to talk to her about matters of the Afterlife despite her fear?
What is the destiny of a woman in Paradise if a man married her and then she died, whereupon he married her sister after her death, knowing that "a woman in Paradise belongs to her last husband in this world" and "it is forbidden to combine two sisters [in marriage]"?
Is it permissible to perform Umrah before fully paying off a car loan, and will a person be detained in the fire of Hell if they die while owing an unpaid debt?
Is it forbidden to dislike death out of fear of Allah's punishment?
What is the meaning of the Hadith: "There will remain in Paradise what Allah wills to remain, then Allah Almighty will create for it a creation of whatever He wills"?
Is it permissible to phrase a supplication as, "O Allah, gladden the eyes of Your Prophet by the sight of his parents in Paradise"?
Is it true that the creed of the People of the Sunnah and the Community (Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah) gives glad tidings to perpetrators of major sins, no matter how great their transgressions, that they will enter Paradise, abiding therein eternally, either directly or after punishment, merely by uttering the Two Testimonies (Shahadatayn), while considering the denial of seeing God or His transcendence from certain attributes as disbelief that necessitates eternal abode in Hell?
Is it possible to enter Paradise without suffering torment in the grave and the Hereafter, despite having committed past sins and desiring to repent?
What are the characteristics of the people of Paradise and the people of Hellfire?
How can one learn methods of Da‘wah to guide the family towards avoiding sins and committing to acts of worship without causing a negative reaction?
Will those who are the first three to be incinerated by the Fire - namely, the reciter (of the Quran), the mujahid (fighter in the way of Allah), and the charitable person, whose deeds were not purely for the sake of Allah - be dragged directly to the Fire, or will they pass over the Sirat (bridge)? Especially since the Hadith mentions that they will be dragged on their faces until they are cast into the Fire, and it does not mention them passing over the Sirat. And will the disbelievers pass over the Sirat, and how is this understood in conjunction with the Almighty’s saying: "And those who disbelieved will be driven to Hell in groups until, when they reach it, its gates will be opened" and His saying: "Every time a company is thrown into it, its keepers ask them," and how can these verses be reconciled with the Almighty’s saying: "And there is none of you except that he will come to it"?
What is the ruling on my grandfather’s act of caging donkeys that used to urinate in running water, which led to their death by thirst? Is he accountable for what he did?
What is the ruling on one who does not know Tawhid, and are there Muslims who do not know Tawhid or that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah?
Is it permissible to believe that pagans may be forgiven and that the Quran is unclear?
What will be the state of someone who performed deeds that necessitate Paradise and deeds that necessitate Hell, then died a natural death on the Day of Judgment?
Can a human know their destiny in this world, and is there a connection to Allah's saying: "And they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills"?
Why is the entry of all Muslims into Paradise, both the pious and the dissolute, considered one of the fundamental tenets of the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah, despite the absence of a definitive, unequivocally proven and interpreted text confirming this, and how is the contradiction of this principle with the verses and hadiths that speak of eternal damnation in Hell for some Muslims who commit grave sins explained?
Is backbiting repelled by saying, "Astaghfirullah, do not backbite," and does the one who says it fall under the virtue of protecting the flesh from the Fire with an angel, or is it conditioned upon saying, "You are mistaken, we have known nothing but good from him," which might anger a friend?
Is drawing cartoons forbidden, knowing that drawing people is not realistic, and does working in this field lead to entering Hellfire, despite performing religious duties and good deeds, and will these deeds be lost because of something that is not considered a temptation in this era?