Afterlife question relating to Islam?

Question

I was wondering whether the Islam teaches about Heaven, and how you would get there, or what their version of the afterlife is. Please note- answers without due respect for others will be reported. Not looking for anger or to upset, honest answers only please.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, It Does. It talks about the afterlife, life after death. You get to Heaven by following the five pillars of Islam:
1) Shahada- Belief that there is one God and Mohammed is his Messenger

2) Zakat- Charity, thats manditory, at the end of the Islamic year, all muslims must give 2.5% of their annual profit to charity

3) Salat- Doing the 5 daily prayers, on time and properly

4) Sawm- Fasting during Ramadan, 30 days when muslims only have two meals, one before Dawn, the other at dusk, and nothing in between (no water, gum, etc.), NOr are they allowed to gossip (which is already a sin in Islam, but in Ramadan, it will break your fast)

5) Hajj- the once in a lifetime pilgrimage to Mekkah, where you are sort of spiritually reborn, like all the sins of your life from before Hajj are erased

and then to Believe in these 7 things:
1) God is one
2)In all of his Prophets
3) All of HIs Books
4) the Angels
5) Fate, good and bad
6) LIfe after death
7) The Day of JUdgment

Well, these are the very basic things, theres many more things a muslim must follow in order to go to Heaven, which every muslim will do eventually, after he/she has served time in hell for all the sins he/she did not try to erase or the prayers he missed and so forth.

Answer 2

Yes Islam is teaching about Heaven and Hell. This information is going through the whole Quran..

As per Islam each person has the book of hid deeds with right and left pages where good deeds and sins are written.. There are special time when your sin can be forgiven/removed from the book, like praying on a special days or nights during Ramadan, reciting particular prayers (words) every day etc.

As per Islam all Muslims will go eventually to Paradise. But those who had sinned first will get their punishment ( depends on the severity).. after anyway Muslim will be put to the paradise, as Islam is the correct way to God.

Before death if you say: La Illaha Ila Allah, Mohamed rasulullah ( there is not God but Allah & Mohammed is His messenger) you will go directly to the Heaven..

Answer 3

Death does not terminate man's life. On the other hand, Islam teaches that it is the door that opens to an eternal lifer after death. The appropriate reward for one's earthly deeds, good or bad, is disbursed only in the Hereafter. The Islamic belief is that mankind will be resurrected, on the Day of Judgement, after every creation is destroyed. After being reborn, man will face a trial which will be in absolute control of the Almighty. Here, all the good and bad acts of man during his sojourn on earth will be unfurled before his eyes in order to be ultimately judged by God. The virtuous will be rewarded with virtue and the wrong doers punished appropriately. Those who have made sacrifices and discharges noble deeds will receive the shelter of peace in Heaven and those who have denigrated their lives through vices and evil will be condemned to suffer horrors of Hell. Islam inculcates the concept of accountability both in public and private life of a person by emphasizing the paramount importance of life Hereafter for mankind.

Answer 4

I am learning about this religion currently and I have some websites saved so I can look back and study some. This is just for some understanding. Please learn and choose from a real muslim who understands better than I do...;

Muslim Beliefs about the Afterlife
"We have ordained death among you, and We are not to be overcome, so that We may change your state and make you grow into what you know not."

--Qur'an 56:60-61
Like Christianity, Islam teaches the continued existence of the soul and a transformed physical existence after death. Muslims believe there will be a day of judgment when all humans will be divided between the eternal destinations of Paradise and Hell.

Resurrection and the Day of Judgment
A central doctrine of the Qur'an is the Last Day, on which the world will be destroyed and Allah will raise all people and jinn from the dead to be judged.

The Last Day is also called the Day of Standing Up, Day of Separation, Day of Reckoning, Day of Awakening, Day of Judgment, The Encompassing Day or The Hour.

Until the Day of Judgment, deceased souls remain in their graves awaiting the resurrection. However, they begin to feel immediately a taste of their destiny to come. Those bound for hell will suffer in their graves, while those bound for heaven will be in peace until that time.

The resurrection that will take place on the Last Day is physical, and is explained by suggesting that God will re-create the decayed body (17:100: "Could they not see that God who created the heavens and the earth is able to create the like of them"?).

One's eternal destination depends on balance of good to bad deeds in life. On the Last Day, resurrected humans and jinn will be judged by Allah according to their deeds. They are either granted admission to Paradise, where they will enjoy spiritual and physical pleasures forever, or condemned to Hell to suffer spiritual and physical torment for eternity. The day of judgment is described as passing over Hell on a narrow bridge in order to enter Paradise. Those who fall, weighted by their bad deeds, will remain in Hell forever.

The Qur'an specifies two exceptions to this general rule: (1) Warriors who die fighting in the cause of God are ushered immediately to God's presence (2:159 and 3:169), and (2) "enemies of Islam" are sentenced immediately to Hell upon death.

Heaven
"O soul who is at rest, return to thy Lord, well-pleased with Him, well-pleasing Him. So enter among My servants, and enter My garden." (89:27-30)
Paradise (firdaws), also called "The Garden" (Janna), is a place of physical and spiritual pleasure, with lofty mansions (39:20, 29:58-59), delicious food and drink (52:22, 52:19, 38:51), and virgin companions called houris (56:17-19, 52:24-25, 76:19, 56:35-38, 37:48-49, 38:52-54, 44:51-56, 52:20-21). There are seven heavens (17:46, 23:88, 41:11, 65:12).

Hell
Hell, or Jahannam (Greek gehenna), is mentioned frequently in the Qur'an and the Sunnah using a variety of imagery. It has seven doors (Qur'an 39:71; 15:43) leading to a fiery crater of various levels, the lowest of which contains the tree Zaqqum and a cauldron of boiling pitch. The level of hell depends on the degree of offenses. Suffering is both physical and spiritual.

Being a Muslim does not keep one out of Hell, but it is not clear whether Muslims remain in Hell forever. Non-Muslims (kafir), however, will be punished eternally. A Muslim author on IslamOnline.net explains it this way:

"Ultimately, God will remove from Hell those believers whose sins were not forgiven nor atoned for by good deeds in their lifetimes, and they will then enter Paradise. The remaining inhabitants of Hell will stay there eternally." (Islam Online)
Other Muslim commentators, noting that Allah can rescue people from hell as he chooses, and that he is merciful and compassionate, have hypothesized that eventually hell will be empty. Alternatively, Hell can be seen as a place of progress where souls are instructed until they are fit to go to heaven:

"Life after death is actually the starting-point of further progress for man. Those in paradise are advancing to higher and higher stages in knowledge and perfection of faith. Hell is meant to purify those in it of the effects of their bad deeds, and so make them fit for further advancement. Its punishment is, therefore, not everlasting." (Muslim.org, an Ahmadiyya website)

Answer 5

If I may respectfully interject here, (not being a Muslim) Is anyone noticing the similarities to Christianity?

Answer 6

islam teaches that life is a balance of good and evil.
One must do more good than evil to get to heaven
NO ONE can be sure they have enough good to get there.

The alternate method of heaven is to sacrifice ones self.
This is why there are so many suicide bombers willing to
blow themselves up..to get to heaven.

Answer 7

BOOM!!