Say a person dies and goes to Heaven i.e. he gets everything he wants and lives in total happiness.
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Say a
person dies and goes to Heaven i.e. he gets everything he wants and lives in
total happiness. What if someone he loves a great deal - dies and enters Hell.
The person in Heaven will be unhappy to see this happen and will miss that
person. The point is that if you are in Heaven and you will get everything then
you should have all your loved ones with you - otherwise it is not like
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Friend
loved one in hell fire
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 50 Surah Qaaf verse 35:
There they (the men and women of
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 25 Surah Furqan verses 15-16:
Ask them, “Is this (the Fire) better, or the
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 119:
Allah will say:
"This is a Day on which the Truthful will profit from their Truth: theirs
are Gardens with rivers flowing beneath their eternal home: Allah
well-pleased with them and they with Allah: that is the Great Salvation
(the fulfillment of all desires).
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 98 Surah
Al-Bayyinah verse 8:
Their reward is with
Allah: Gardens of Eternity Beneath which rivers flow; They will dwell therein
for ever; Allah well pleased with them and they with Him: all this for such as fear their Lord and
Cherisher.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 32 Surah Sajdah verse 17:
No living being knows
what comfort of the eyes has been kept hidden from them, as a recompense (in
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 4.467 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said, "Allah, The High and Exalted He is, said, 'I have prepared
for My pious slaves things (in Paradise) which have never been seen by an eye,
or heard by an ear, or (even) imagined by a human being.'
Your Question: What
if someone he loves a great deal - dies and enters Hell. The person in Heaven
will be unhappy to see this happen and will miss that person.
Dear and beloved brother, more often than not, the concept
of love (or even hatred) in the life of this world borders towards the
extremes! One may love someone or something
more than it deserves, or one may even hate someone or something more than it
deserves! No wonder then that man has
coined this concept that ‘Love is blind!!!’
But in the eternal and just life of the Hereafter, when
the Reality of all things in its proper perspective, becomes absolutely clear
to each individual, one’s concept of ‘love’ will be absolutely balanced and
based on justice and truth.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 41 Surah
Haa-Meem verse 19:
19 On the Day (of Judgment) that the enemies of Allah will be gathered
together to the Fire, they will be marched (towards the Fire) in ranks.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 41 Surah
Haa-Meem verses 28-29:
28 Such is the requital of the enemies of Allah, the Fire: therein will
be for them the eternal home: a (fit) requital for that they were wont to
reject Our Signs!
29 And the Unbelievers will say: "O Our Lord! Show us those (our
friends) among Jinns and men who misled us: we shall crush them beneath our
feet so that they become the vilest (of all)."
On that Tumultuous and Inevitable Day of Judgment, when
one sees and realizes the Truth, one will also know with absolute and total
conviction that every person who was condemned to the Hell Fire was condemned
to it only because of his evil deeds.
Even if that person was one’s closest and intimate friend and companion,
or even a close blood-relative, the people of
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 27 Surah
Saafaat Verses 51-57:
51 One of them (the dwellers of
52 Who used to say `What? Art thou (really) amongst those who bears
witness to the Truth (of the Message)?
53 When we die and become dust and bones, shall we indeed receive
rewards and punishments?' "
54 (A voice) said: "Would ye like to
look down (towards Hell Fire)?"
55 He looked down and saw him (his intimate
friend) in the midst of the Fire.
56 He said: "By Allah! Thou wast little
short of bringing me to perdition!
57 Had it not been for the Grace of my Lord, I should certainly have
been among those brought (there, in the Fire)!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 43 Surah
Zukhruf verses 67-70:
67 Friends on that Day will be enemies to one another, except for the
Righteous.
68 My devotees! No fear shall be on you that
Day nor shall ye grieve
69 (Being) those who have believed in Our Signs and bowed (their wills
to Ours) in Islam.
70 Enter ye the Garden, ye and your wives, in
rejoicing.
Allow us to relate an example to make the matter a little clearer. Suppose there is a person who I know with
absolute conviction disrespects, curses, and abuses the person whom I love and
respect more than anyone in creation…my mother; would it be possible for me to
make such a person my companion, leave alone my intimate friend or have any
feelings or loyalties towards such a person???
Similarly, when on the Day of Judgment, when one sees
their friend or loved one being condemned by the All-Knowing, All-Just Lord to
the Hell Fire, one will have absolutely no love or feelings or remorse for
those who denied and rejected Allah Subhanah and His Guidance to the Truth.
Without an iota of a doubt, on that Inevitable Day of
Judgment, one’s Love for Allah Subhanah and the Truth will supercede the ‘love’
one may have had for anyone and anything in existence!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 58 Surah
Mujadila verse 22:
22 Thou wilt not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their
fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred! For such He has written Faith in their hearts
and strengthened them with a spirit from Himself. And He will admit them to Gardens beneath
which Rivers flow to dwell therein (for ever).
Allah will be well pleased with them and they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Truly it is the
Party of Allah that will achieve Felicity.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister