are these people going to hell are they
also condemned to Eternal punishment do
they fall under that statement in the
Quran that tells us that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will not accept any other
religion except Islam that
verily that verily the dean the way of
life the way of living with Allah is
Islam and whoever chooses es a faith
whoever chooses a way of living other
than the way of living of submission to
Allah of Islam it will never be accepted
from them it will never be accepted from
them and in the next life they will be
from the
losers so how these people who have done
so much good in their lives are going to
be burnt in hell
hell my brothers and sisters let us talk
about hell hell is a fire hell is a
place that Allah subhana wa ta'ala has
already created and when Allah created
the Hellfire he said oh jiel go and look
at my Hellfire and the angel jiel he
looked at the Hellfire he went to Allah
he said oh Allah anyone who hears about
the Hellfire they will never go into it
and then Allah surround Ed the Hellfire
with
Temptations with
ease and then Allah said to jiel now go
and look at my
Hellfire and jiel came back and said
Allah I'm afraid that nobody will escape
it the Hellfire and Paradise argued with
each other yes the Hellfire argued with
the
paradise the paradise said I am Allah's
Mercy in me are the poor and the meek
and the humble and the Hellfire said I
am Allah's punishment I am the WTH of
Allah and in me are the arrogant and the
proud and they were competing and
arguing with each other about who was
Superior who was
better and Allah said to the Hellfire in
the paradise the paradise yes you are my
mercy and you will be filled and the
Hellfire you my WTH and you will be
filled Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he is
going to fill the paradise and he is
going to fill the Hellfire this is the
fact and the Hellfire is a place of the
most extreme suffering the most extreme
pain of every level that you can imagine
physical mental spiritual pain and
suffering and torment it is a place
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he will
burn the skins of the people and then he
will recreate their skins and burn the
Skins again so that the people in there
will taste the punishment it is a place
of heat a place of place of pain a place
of suffering the people will cry in
agony for water they will cry for a
drink something to cool them and they
will be given a water they will be given
a drink but it is a boiling water that
will scold their faces and burn their
insides and they will
drink from a river a river that is made
from the P that flows out of the wounds
of the people of the Hellfire the wounds
of the people of the Hellfire will ooze
p and this P will gather together to
form a river and this is all they will
have to drink and their food will be the
the tree of zakum a tree the fruits of
which are like the heads of devils and
this tree is so bitter that if the
people when they try to eat it they
can't eat it but they will force
themselves because there is nothing else
to eat in the Hellfire a place where the
people will neither live nor will they
die a place where the people will fall
into despair arguing with each other
admonishing each other criticizing each
other
the fire will surround them on every
place the smallest punishment of the
Hellfire the smallest punishment of the
Hellfire is that a person will wear a
pair of sandals of fire and their brain
will
boil that's the smallest punishment and
they will think that they have the worst
punishment but it is the the least
punishment this is the Hell
Fire this is the hell fire the fire that
has been created the fire in which Allah
subhah wa ta'ala will punish those
people who have disobeyed him and a
person may say what could a person ever
do to deserve such a punishment what
could a person do to deserve such wuth
such destruction such anger such
humiliation well I am going to
try to answer this
question I am going to try and answer
this
question why do people go to hell what
causes the people to be punished in the
fire first of all I would like to
examine an important issue and this
important issue is a question
when someone asks this question how can
good people go to hell the first thing I
like to ask them
is okay give me a definition of good
what is
good you say that this is a good person
I am a good person she is a good
person but what is good what makes
something good and what makes something
evil you see the problem is
this the definition of Good and Evil
very often changes from people to people
and place to place what may be good for
me may not be good for you what I
consider to be good you may consider to
be evil let me give you some examples of
this maybe there is a country in the
world that is running out of
oil and it is good for them to invade
another country in order to have access
to their oil
supplies now this Invasion and this
robbing that country of their oil is
good for the invading country but is it
good for the other country who is being
invaded and who is having their oil
stolen no
it is not good is it so one person's
definition of what is good is another
person's understanding of what is
evil I don't know if any of you remember
for
example the war that happened in the
former
Yugoslavia where a state separated
itself called
Bosnia and this state Bosnia was
attacked by the serbs
the leader of the serbs his name was
Slobodan mosovich
he is a wanted war
criminal for raping murdering and
massacring
Muslims yet until today amongst the
serbs I have seen
pictures of Slobodan mosovich with a
Halo and wings like an angel
a Halo which is a sign of a holy person
and wings like an
angel they think he is a hero a man who
is responsible for raping and murdering
and torturing thousands of human
beings one person's definition of a good
person is another person's definition of
an evil
person this is the problem and then who
defines what is
good you see most
people you will find most
people they have an idea everybody has
an idea of what they think is good and
what they think is evil what they think
is right and what they think is wrong
what they imagine is the right way to
behave and what they imagine is the
wrong way to behave everybody has these
ideas but the question is this
where do they get these ideas from who
told them this is good and this is evil
this is right and this is wrong this is
the right way to behave and this is the
wrong way to behave most people they
just follow the pattern of their society
if you imagine the behavior or the
morals or the characteristics of society
is defined within a certain area a
certain parameter most people make sure
they fit in inside that Circle or area
or parameter if anyone goes outside that
parameter that's when people start
applying labels to them like oh that's a
religious person or that's an extreme
person because they fall outside the
parameter of what is normal in
society but it's very interesting for
example if you study the history of
Buddhism in India of course I'm sure you
know that Buddhism originated in India
isn't that
true
yes so Buddha originally was an Indian
Prince but his teaching
contradicted vadis or the vadic
teachings the cast system Buddha was
against the cast system he did not
believe that
salvation in this life depended upon
belonging to a cast and following the
cast system and worshiping various Gods
he had a different idea in which he
believed everybody was
equal this opposed the prevailing
religion here in
India the brahans for example they
believed that goodness
meant following the rituals they had set
rituals the worships of the
Gods and strict adherence to the cast
system so you proved your goodness by
being a good member of your
cast their whole idea of what is
goodness and virtue was contradicted by
the teachings of Buddha as he had a
different idea of what constituted
goodness and virtue so who is good which
one is good which one is the right one
and which one is the wrong one the
reason why Buddhism you will not find it
in India today is because the Kings
supported the viic religion and
slaughtered the Buddhists they literally
slaughtered them invaded their
monasteries and slaughtered them on mass
until there were none left or they
fled
This Is How They dealt with it is this
good maybe it is good in the eyes of the
people following that religion I don't
think it's good in the eyes of the
Buddhist or probably it's not good in
the eyes of most of
us so what makes a good person what
makes a person
good one of the important things of
course is your
intention what is your
intention by what and for what do you
intend to do something in Islam of
course something is
good only when it is
intended for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
alone in order for an action to be
acceptable to Allah the first condition
is it has to be done sincerely and
purely for the pleasure of Allah hoping
for Allah's reward his paradise and
fearing Allah's
punishment now some
people mostly what we call secular
humanists they say oh that is not a good
reason to do good deeds because you're
afraid of the Hellfire because you want
Paradise surely the reason you should do
good deeds is through altruism you
should just just do it because it's good
and they propagate this idea of the
benefit of altruistic behavior I'm
myself do not believe there is such a
thing as altruism doing something
without any benefits because even these
people who do good deeds don't you think
that when they do a good deed they get
some feeling of
satisfaction you know I did a good deed
I feel a bit good about myself so
certainly they do that means they are
satisfying themselves they want to feel
inside themselves satisfied that means
they in fact make themselves the center
of the universe they themselves make
themselves the center of the universe
this is actually
psychologically more likely to breed
arrogance and pride is that a good
characteristic to be arrogant is that is
that a good characteristic to be proud I
don't think so whereas a
Muslim we do things purely and sincerely
for the pleasure of Allah in fact there
may be some things that Allah tells us
to do it even though we don't like
it and Allah tells us to leave something
even though we like it it is not an
issue whether I imagine it is going to
make me feel good or not for the Muslim
the purpose is only pleasing Allah only
pleasing the Lord of all the
creation so Our intention has to be
correct but is that enough is it enough
for the intention to be correct in order
for the deed to be good
no the deed also has to be
correct meaning the deed has to be done
according to the Shar according
according to the law that Allah
subhanahu wa taala has given to us in
the Quran and in the example of prophet
Muhammad s. wasam so we need these two
things pure intention and the action
must be correct it is only when these
two things come together the deed is
considered to be a good deed if my
intention is pure but my action is not
correct it's not done according to Islam
it's not done according to the
Sunnah Allah will not accept it if the
action is correct and done according to
the Sunnah and the Shar but I do it to
show off I do it to impress
people then the action is not accepted
it has to be both
sincere and correct and there is one
other other
thing very important the deed has to be
done with Iman true
Faith true faith is the basis of
everything in Islam if our belief
concerning Allah is not correct if our
faith is not
correct if we are worshiping something
or someone along with Allah then our
deeds will be useless our deeds will be
futile our deeds will be vain