Paradise and Hell
1,670 questions
How can a person balance thinking about the future and sufficient remembrance of death, while avoiding falling into arrogance?
Is it permissible to supplicate, give charity, perform Umrah, and visit the grave on behalf of a girl who died after an electronic relationship, and is it permissible to supplicate that the deceased and the questioner be gathered in Paradise?
How can women be both more in Hell and more in Paradise at the same time, as Sheikh Omar Abdel Kafi mentioned?
Is the supplication: "O Allah, apportion for us out of Your fear that which will come between us and Your disobedience... and do not give power over us to those who will not show us mercy" a noble Hadith, and why was the intellect not mentioned in "And grant us enjoyment, O Allah, of our hearing, our sight, and our strength as long as You keep us alive," despite its importance?
Is the deceased to be instructed at burial if his body is found after a week?
Is the disbelief of the Jahmiyyah and Muʿtazilah different from the disbelief of the polytheists, and will the perpetrator of a disbelieving innovation abide eternally in Hellfire?
What is the ruling on jokes that mock Paradise, Hell, and creation?
What is the fate of a disobedient person if he dies in the month of Ramadan, despite the Gates of Hellfire being closed therein?
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How can the hadiths indicating that women constitute the majority of the inhabitants of Hellfire, and that few women will enter Paradise, be reconciled with the hadiths stating that the best women of this Ummah will enter Paradise and that the number of women in Paradise will exceed that of men?
When will the angels' souls be taken, and will that be after the reckoning of creation?
Since Paradise is as wide as the heavens and the earth, then where is Hellfire?
What should I do if I live in an Arab country that prohibits the hijab, knowing that wearing it would expose me to risks in my studies and work?
What is the ruling on gathering to supplicate collectively after completing the recitation of the Holy Quran? Is it considered an innovation (bid'ah)? And was any specific supplication for the completion of the Quran transmitted from the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)?
Are there currently people in Paradise and Hell, or are they empty?
Which of these sins are minor and which are major: masturbation, kissing one's sister, looking at pornographic images, and shaking hands with a non-mahram woman?
Will he who did not enjoy a good life in this world be compensated in Paradise, if he and another person are equal in piety and righteousness and both enter Paradise, or will they receive the same reward, such that the former would have gained both this world and the Hereafter, and would this be considered unjust to the latter?
If someone utters the Two Testimonies on his deathbed and then dies, is he considered to have died a believing Muslim who will eventually enter Paradise, even if he spends a period in Hell?
Why will a woman not get what she desires in Paradise, namely exclusivity with her husband, while a man will be given what he desires, namely polygyny, and why will jealousy be removed from a woman's heart in Paradise, but the love of polygyny not be removed from a man's heart?
Is it permissible to covet memorizing the Qur’an out of a desire for closeness to a specific memorizer in Paradise, and is that considered polytheism (shirk)?
Is it permissible to name buildings designated for rent with names such as "Qasr Abad al-Rahman" (Palace of the Worshippers of the Most Merciful) or "Qasr al-Kawthar" (Palace of Kawthar)?
Does his saying, peace and blessings be upon him, "They are from their fathers" mean that they will follow their fathers into the Fire in the Hereafter? And how can this be reconciled with the hadiths that mention that the children of polytheists die upon natural disposition (fitra) and will be servants to the people of Paradise or among the best of people?
How can one get rid of deviation and doubt in creed, especially when hearing arguments from other schools of thought or from people of other religions, and how can one remain steadfast in the creed of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah?
When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) recited the Quran in prayer, was a weeping or groaning sound heard from him?