If being IQ-Challenged (alright, retarded) means you automatically go to heaven,?

Question

since you don't know any better, wouldn't we all wish we were IQ-challenged? And what if you're not born mentally retarded, but become so later in life, from a car accident, perhaps?

And please, keep it short people!

Answer 1

If you have the mentality of a child under 8 yr then you would not know better as that is the age of accountability. If you become so later in life I guess you would be responsible for what you did be for the accident. If we were all mentality challenged we would have no Internet and so no site like this.

Answer 2

Answer :

Praise be to Allaah.

and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allaah.

We ask Allaah to have mercy on her, and to join you with her in the Gardens of Delight (Paradise).

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Every child is born in state of fitrah (the natural disposition of man), then his parents make him a Jew or a Christian or a Magian.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1296; Muslim, 4803).

And he said: “The pen is lifted from three (i.e., their deeds are not recorded): the sleeper until he awakes, the child until he grows up, and the insane until he regains his sanity or regains consciousness.” This was narrated by the authors of Sunan and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Irwa’, no. 297.

If a child is born lacking mental faculties or brain-damaged, and his parents are Muslim, then he is Muslim too. Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “The ruling on one who is insane is like the ruling on a child: if his parents are Muslim then he is also Muslim. This is according to the consensus of the Muslims. The same applies if his mother is Muslim, according to the majority of scholars such as Abu Haneefah, al-Shaafa’i and Ahmad. Similarly, one who become insane after becoming Muslim is also regarded as a Muslim. An insane person who was born in a Muslim society is also regarded as being outwardly Muslim, like his parents or the people of the society, as is also the ruling on children. The children of the Muslims and their insane will be like their fathers (i.e., they will be counted as Muslims) on the Day of Resurrection.”

(Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 10/437)

Ibn Hazm (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “As for the insane who have no mental faculties until they die, as we have already mentioned, they are born as ‘haneefs’ (monotheists) and believers, and they do not change their faith, so they die as believers and so they will go to Paradise.” (al-Fasl 4/135).

So if your sister had no mental faculties or power of discernment, and she did not understand the meaning of worship or how to do it, then the pen was lifted from her (and her deeds were not recorded), so she was still adhering to the fitrah, and we hope that she will enter Paradise. But we cannot testify that any specific person will go to Paradise, apart from those whom the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) testified would go there.

But if she had mental faculties and could understand things, then she is accountable like everyone else, and she will be rewarded or punished for whatever she did after she reached adolesence. If she was fine sometimes and not at others, then she will be rewarded or punished for whatever she did at the times when her reason was sound.

And Allaah knows best.


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Answer 3

WOW...another lame-brained attempt to stir the Christians into a religious debate. Good job, and good luck. Oh, an answer....I second the last guy

Answer 4

i imagine that if you've lost some or most of your frontal lobe god wouldn't allow you into heaven since you'll be a bastard for the rest of your life. you'll have lost most of what people consider "decency" and what freud called the "ego", and therefore only act on your desires without really feeling bad about it. i think that's the ticket for hell.
even though its not really their fault.

but i hope god isn't that mean.

Answer 5

In Islam, it is said that such people " borne with such deficiency" or became in such status before puberty,they would go to heaven.Just like kids who die before puberty to, they would go to heaven.
For the second part of your question, I say No. I thank Allah ( God) for giving me the brain and wisdom to know HIM and use my brain in worshiping Allah. It is a gift we should be thankful to Allah for it.

Answer 6

god measures the love in your heart not your brain.

Answer 7

who cares

Answer 8

interesting, I still thin they an be evil and go to hell.

Answer 9

I guess so