Paradise and Hell
1,670 questions
Is a mother who died on Friday while performing ablution due to electrocution considered a martyr? And is one who dies on Friday emancipated from Hellfire?
Will a female teacher go to Hell if a student does not forgive her for what she did to him?
Why do people love themselves?
Why will the believer be held accountable again on the Day of Judgment, despite knowing his place in Paradise after being laid in the grave?
What is the meaning of the tranquility, profuse sweating, smiling, fair and radiant face, swiftness of the funeral procession, and large number of mourners for a deceased person who was undergoing surgery, and do these indicate a good ending or martyrdom?
How can one reconcile belief in God's justice with the feeling that God is unjust toward His creation—especially women—in terms of creation, divine obligations, accountability, and recompense in this world and the hereafter?
Does one who commits a sin whose punishment is a curse but performs a deed whose reward is Paradise enter Hellfire, such as a woman who plucks her eyebrows but sponsors an orphan, or one whose young children have died?
Is it permissible to grieve intensely over the death of a cat? Can Allah reunite a person with their pet on the Day of Judgment? What is the fate of animals after death?
Does the believer enter Paradise or the Garden directly after his death, taking into account the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, concerning the martyrs that they are in Paradise, and his saying, "The grave is either a pit of Hellfire or a garden of the Gardens of Paradise"?
How can an Australian girl from another religion be convinced to believe in the Oneness of God as quickly as possible?
Why were we not given a choice in coming to this life, and in undergoing its test which ends in either Paradise or Hellfire, when we reject this test and its horrors?
How can Ibn Hazm's statement that all the Companions are among the people of Paradise, based on Allah's saying: (And to each [of them] Allah has promised the best reward) and (Indeed, those for whom the best [reward] has been decreed from Us - those are removed far from it), be reconciled with the Prophet's — peace and blessings be upon him — specific mention of certain Companions as being among the people of Paradise?
Will the one who enters Paradise have his facial features changed, becoming similar to others, or will he remain in his [original] form while acquiring handsomeness?
Is there an authentic Prophetic Hadith that confirms that reciting "Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad" (Say: He is Allah, the One) seventy thousand times, or "Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem" (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful) one hundred thousand times, over the deceased during the first three days after their death, emancipates them from Hellfire?
Will anyone who associated partners with Allah have an excuse on the Day of Judgment that will save him from Hellfire, and has the proof been established against the People of the Book in our current era, based on noble verses such as: "Indeed, he who associates others with Allah—Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire. And for the wrongdoers there will be no helpers" and "Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills"?
Will the stepmother be rewarded for raising her husband's daughter who is not an orphan, and is it valid for her to insist on her decision to raise her if her intention is to please her husband and gain his affection?
What is the punishment for girls who took off the jilbab and wore immodest clothing in a school sports event, despite having the option not to participate, knowing that this is contrary to the Islamic religion?
Will someone who died after a struggle with illness and was pious, righteous, and a devoted worshipper of Allah enter Paradise, and will he feel what happens to his family?
How can the hadiths of intercession—which mention people coming out of Hell who had an atom's weight of faith in their hearts—be reconciled with the statement that some groups will abide eternally in Hell?
What are the authentic hadiths mentioned concerning the the virtues of Rajab, Sha'ban, and Ramadan, and are people freed from Hellfire in Ramadan, and does that mean that the one freed will never enter Hellfire again, no matter what they do?
Will a person who died at the age of 17 be punished for the insults and curses that he uttered, and is it true that whoever dies before the age of twenty will not be punished?
How can a young man and woman who wish to marry be helped to change the young man's unlawful source of livelihood to a lawful one, knowing that the young man is aware of the young woman's loss of virginity and they both insist on marrying?
Can it be definitively asserted that deceased children are among the people of Paradise, or does the statement that the child killed by Al-Khidr was among the people of Hellfire because he was a disbeliever prevent that?
What is the ruling on insulting religion to a teacher and educator of generations? What is the ruling on one who hears him, and what must he do? And what is the ruling on one who lives with him?