Did you know that the Quran teaches that Allah has deliberately created many human beings and genies for the express purpose of condemning them to hell?
Whomsoever God guides, he is rightly guided; and whom He leads
astray — they are the losers. We
have created for Gehenna many jinn and men: they have hearts,
but understand not with them; they have eyes, but perceive not with them; they
have ears, but they hear not with them. They are like cattle; nay, rather they
are further astray. Those — they are the heedless. S. 7:178-179 Arberry
Had thy Lord willed, He would have made mankind one nation; but
they continue in their differences excepting those on whom thy Lord has mercy.
To that end He created them, and
perfectly is fulfilled the word of thy Lord: ‘I shall assuredly fill Gehenna
with jinn and men all together.’ S. 11:118-119 Arberry
If We had so willed, We could have given every soul its
guidance; but now My Word is realized — “Assuredly
I shall fill Gehenna with jinn and men all together.” S. 32:13
Arberry
Did you also know that the Islamic faith is perhaps the only
religion which promises that every single person must enter into hell, while
failing to give the individual believer the absolute assurance that s/he will
be taken out from there?
The human being says, “Shall I be brought to life again after I
will die?” Does he not remember that We created him when he did not exist? By
your Lord, We will bring them back to life with satan and gather them around
hell in large groups. Then We will separate from every group those who were
strongly rebellious against the Beneficent God. We know best who deserves
greater suffering in hell fire. It is the inevitable decree of your Lord that every one of you will be
taken to hell. We will save the pious ones from the hell
fire and leave the unjust people therein in crowded groups. S. 19:66-72
Muhammad Sarwar https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st23.htm
Note how the following versions translate the specific verse in
question:
and there is not one of you but shall pass through it: a decree
from your Lord which must be fulfilled. Wahiduddin Khan https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st38.htm
There is none of you, but ones who go down to it. This had been a
thing decreed, that decreed by thy Lord. S. 19:71 Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st46.htm
And all of you will go through it.
This is a decree from your Lord that must be fulfilled. Safi Kaskas https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st64.htm
And decidedly not one of you (there is), except that he will go (herded)
down to it; that, for your Lord, has been a thing decreed, a
must. Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st21.htm
And not from you [(who are mentioned in Verses 19/65-70) would
remain outside] but
must be one who entered it (i.e., Hell). (This) is unto your
Nourisher-Sustainer, a decree, decreed. Dr. Kamal Omar https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st48.htm
There is not one of you but will go down to it. This has been
an unavoidable decree of your Lord. Tala A. Itani https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st56.htm
And every single one of you will encounter it.
This for your Lord is a certainty that will come to pass. The Monotheist Group
(2013 Edition) https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st58.htm
Every one of you will tour the Hell (to feel how awful of a
place it is.) Bijan Moeinian https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st11.htm
There is not one of you who shall not go down to it: such is
a thing decreed, determined by your Lord. Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st16.htm
And there is none among you who He will not pass through (experience) Hell! This
is, by your Rabb, a definite decree. Ahmed Hulusi https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st63.htm
Not one of you there is, but he shall go down to it; that for
thy Lord is a thing decreed, determined. Arberry
There is not one of you who will not go down to it,- that is
settled and decided by thy Lord. Palmer
There shall be none of you but shall descend into the same hell:
This is an established decree upon thy Lord. Sale
No one is there of you who shall not go down unto it –
This is a settled decree with thy Lord – Rodwell
There is not one among you who shall not pass through it: such
is the absolute decree of your Lord. N. J. Dawood (2014)
And here is how some of Islam’s greatest commentators explained
this passage:
There is not one of you but shall come to it that is but shall enter Hell.
That is an inevitability already decreed by your Lord something which He made
inevitable and which He decreed; He will not waive it. (Tafsir al-Jalalayn https://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=71&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2;
bold and underline emphasis ours)
(There is not one of you but shall approach it) there is not a single one of you,
to the exclusion of prophets and messengers, save that he will enter it, i.e.
hell. (That is a fixed ordinance of your Lord) it is a decree
that must necessarily take place. (Tanwîr
al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs https://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=71&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2;
bold and underline emphasis ours)
There is a major problem with the above commentary. The only
persons exempted from going to hell are the Lord Jesus and his blessed mother,
since the Muslim scripture plainly states that Allah took Jesus to be with him
where he is, and placed his glorious mother on a high and secure place:
When God said, ‘Jesus, I will take thee to Me and will raise thee to Me and
I will purify thee of those who believe not. I will set thy followers above the
unbelievers till the Resurrection Day. Then unto Me shall you return, and I
will decide between you, as to what you were at variance on. S. 3:55 Arberry
God raised him up to Him; God is All-mighty,
All-wise. S. 4:158 Arberry
And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign; and We gave
them both shelter on
high, a place of security and springs. S. 23:50 Hamid S.
Aziz https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/23/st15.htm
The fact is that everyone else must enter into hell, including
the prophets and messengers, according to the Quran!
The next traditions show that even Muhammad’s close companions
knew that they too would have to go to hell, which caused them great fear and
anxiety since they weren’t certain whether they would ever come out from there:
According to Ibn Humayd – Salamah – Muhammad b. Ishaq – Muhammad
b. Ja‘far b. al-Zubayr – ‘Urwah b. al-Zubayr, who said: The Messenger of God
sent his expedition to Mu’tah in Jumada I of the year 8. He put Zayd b.
Harithah in command of the men and said, “If Zayd b. Harithah is killed, Ja‘far
b. Abi Talib shall be in command of the men; if Ja‘far is killed, ‘Abdallah b.
Rawahah shall be in command… When ‘Abdallah b. Rawahah said goodbye with the
other commanders of the Messenger of God who were doing so, HE WEPT. They said
to him, “What is making you weep, Ibn Rawahah?” He said, “By God, I have no
love of this world or excessive love for you, but I heard the Messenger of God
recite a verse from the Book of God that mentioned the Fire [of Hell] – ‘Not one of you there is, but he
shall go down to it; that for thy Lord is a thing decreed, determined’ – AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW I CAN COME
OUT AFTER GOING DOWN.” The Muslims said, “May God accompany
you, defend you, and bring you back to us in good health.” … (The History of Al-Tabari: The
Victory of Islam, translated by Michael Fishbein [State University
of New York Press (SUNY), Albany 1997], Volume VIII (8), pp. 152-153; bold and
capital emphasis ours)
And:
Also narrated by Abdel Razak, narrated by Ibn Ayena, narrated by
Ismail Ibn Abu Khalid, narrated by Qais Ibn Abu Hazem who said that Abdallah
Ibn Rawaha placed his head on his wife’s lap AND BEGAN TO WEEP, so his wife
began to weep also. So he asked her, “Why are you weeping?” She
responded, “I saw you weeping and so I started to weep.” He said, “I remembered
the saying of Allah – who is glorified and exalted – ‘Not one of you but will
pass through it’ (Q. 19:71), AND
I DON’T KNOW IF I WILL BE SAVED FROM IT OR NOT.” In another
narration it adds the phrase, ‘he said this while he was ill.’
Also narrated by Ibn Jarir, narrated by Abu Kurayb, narrated by
Ibn Yaman, narrated by Malik Ibn Maghul, narrated by Ibn Ishaq who said,
“Whenever Abu Maysarah would lie down on his bed he would say, ‘I WISH MY MOTHER HAD NEVER BORE ME.’
AND THEN HE WOULD BEGIN TO WEEP. When asked why he was weeping
he would respond, ‘WE
WERE TOLD THAT WE WOULD ENTER HELL, BUT WE WEREN’T TOLD THAT WE WOULD EXIT FROM
IT.’”
Also narrated by Abdallah Ibn Al-Mubarak, narrated by Al-Hassan
Al-Basri who said, “A man said to his brother, ‘Have you been told that you shall enter hell?’ The
brother answered ‘YES.’ He then asked, ‘Have you also been told that you
shall exit from it?’ The brother responded ‘NO.’ So he asked,
‘Then why the laughter?’ The
brother responded, ‘I have not seen a person laugh until he joined Allah.’”
(Tafsir Ibn Kathir http://quran.al-islam.com/Page.aspx?pageid=221&BookID=11&Page=310)
What a depressing religion to believe in! To think that a
religion would actually promise its adherents that they all must go to hell,
without giving them the assurance that they will ever come out since no one can
ever know for certain whether Allah will consider them to be godly enough to be
taken out of the fires of hell!
This means that Muslims can never have true peace within their
hearts, since they will always live with the fear of knowing that they must go
to hell after they die. How, then, can any person ever be happy or joyful
believing that hell is the next place they go to once they die?
Contrast this with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, who assures
believers that they will never die and experience God’s wrath, since he
promises to give his followers his everlasting peace, and assures them that he
will never leave nor abandon them:
“‘I
will not leave you fatherless. I will come to you. Yet a little
while and the world will see Me no more. But you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.’…
Jesus answered him, ‘If a man loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will
love him, and WE
will come to him, and make OUR home with him… Peace I leave with you. My peace I
give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:18-19, 23, 27
“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace.
In the world you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ… But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. How much more then, being now
justified by His blood, shall
we be saved from wrath through Him. For if while we were
enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled,
shall we be saved by His life. Furthermore, we also rejoice in
God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
reconciliation.” Romans 5:1, 8-11
“For they themselves declare how we were received by you, and
how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait
for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to
come.” 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
“For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our
Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are
awake or asleep, we should live together with Him.” 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
“At my first defense no one stood with me, but everyone forsook
me. May it not be charged against them. But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me,
so that through me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the
Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. The Lord will deliver me from
every evil work and will preserve me for His heavenly kingdom,
to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.” 2 Timothy 4:16-18
“Let your lives be without love of money, and be content with
the things you have. For He has said: ‘I
will never leave you, nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say:
‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’” Hebrews
13:5-6
Now this is truly a message of hope, with all those believing it
having nothing to fear anymore, not even death, since they know that their Lord
and Savior has conquered the grave and therefore lives forever. And because he
is alive forevermore, all those who trust in him shall never die but will also
live forever and ever in his glorious presence:
“Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of Man be lifted up, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish, but may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send
His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him
might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not
believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God… He
who believes in the Son has eternal life. He who does not
believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” John
3:14-18, 36
“Truly, truly I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes
in Him who sent Me has
eternal life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death
into life.” John 5:24
“‘All whom the Father gives Me will come to Me, and he who comes
to Me I will never cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do My own
will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of the Father who has
sent Me, that of all whom He has given Me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the
last day. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone
who sees the Son and believes in Him may
have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.’
The Jews then murmured about Him, because He said, ‘I am the bread which came
down from heaven.’ They said, ‘Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose
father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, “I have come down from
heaven”?’ Jesus therefore answered them, ‘Do not murmur among yourselves. No
one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draws him. And I will raise him up on the
last day.’” John 6:37-44
“Jesus answered, ‘I do not have a demon. But I honor My Father,
and you dishonor Me. I do not seek glory for Myself. There is One who seeks it
and judges. Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps My word, he shall never see death.’
Then the Jews said to Him, ‘Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham and the
prophets died, and
You say, “If a man keeps My word, he shall never taste death.”
Are You greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets are dead! Who
do You make Yourself out to be?’” John 8:49-53
“Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’ Martha said
to Him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’
Jesus said to her, ‘I
am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though
he may die, yet
shall he live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
Do you believe this?’ She said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the
Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.’” John 11:23-27
“‘Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe
also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I
would have told you. I
am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I
will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, you may be also.
You know where I am going, and you know the way.’ Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we
do not know where You are going. How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” John
14:1-6
“I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfect in unity, and
that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have
loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given
Me, be with Me
where I am, that they may see My glory which You have given Me.
For You loved Me before the creation of the world.” John 17:23-24
“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,
and everyone who loves the Father loves the one born of the Father… for whoever is born of God
overcomes the world, and the victory that overcomes the world
is our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world, but the one who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God?… If we receive the testimony of men,
the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God which He has
given concerning His Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this witness
in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because
he does not believe the testimony that God gave about His Son. And this is the testimony: that
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son
has life, and whoever does not have the Son of God does not
have life. I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the
Son of God, that
you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may
continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:1, 4-5, 9-13
All scriptural citations taken from the Modern English Version
(MEV) of the Holy Bible.
Further Reading
The Quran on Muslims entering Hell https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/muslims_in_hell.htm
Quran Contradiction: Will All Muslims Go to Hell? https://www.answeringislam.net/Quran/Contra/muslims_in_hell2.htm
Will All Muslims Go to Hell According to the Quran? https://www.answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/rebuttals/zawadi/muslims_in_hell.html
Will All Muslims Go to Hell? https://www.answeringislam.net/Responses/Osama/karim_in_hell.htm
Will Muslims Enter Hell? An Analysis of the Conflicting Hadith
Reports https://www.answeringislam.net/Shamoun/muslims_in_hell_ahadith.htm
Source: https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/islam-the-religion-of-sadness-and-misery/
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