Most Christians regard suicide as a mortal sin against God. DId the Prophet (pbuh) ever deal with this act or subject in the Holy Quran or in his writings, and what did he say there, in brief? Are some acts of self-immolation or destruction justifiable?
2006-09-08 16:51:18 · 10 answers · asked by Mad Roy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Suicide is regarded as a mortal sin in Islam and is strictly forbidden. Those who commit suicide and think they will be considered as martyrs in the name of Islam are totally misguided and will be punished for their sins.
Islam is the Religion of Love and Peace it does not allows Acts of Terrorism,Self Immolation or destruction in any way.
Killing someone apart from in War conditions is totally forbidden and self immolation and destruction are totally forbidden and are not justified in any way in Islam.
Take Care and God Bless you !
2006-09-09 21:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
i almost left this one alone.but the answers you got didnt hit the mark.there are a couple of story's the scholars use to justify 'martyrdom operations'.i will share one for brevity.the story of the boy and the king,mentioned in surah buruuj'.to make a long story short,there was a young lad who's parents sent him to study under a majician who was looking for someone to teach the trade to,since he was gettin on in age.on the way to school he would pass by a monk,the monk started to teach the boy about Allah.one day he was late to school and he got punished by the teach.he also came home late to make up the time but got punished by his parents.complaining to the monk,the monk told him to tell his teacher his parents held him up,and to tell the parents the teacher held him up.one day on the way home he came across a crowd of people who were afraid to cross the road for fear of a lion or some kind of beast.the boy prayed to Allah that if the monk was correct, allow him ,the boy ,to slay the beast with a rock,then he would know who spoke the truth.the beast was slain,the boy became a hero and the king became jealous.the king sent his men to slay the attention grabbing peasant boy.three times they tried and failed. the boy eventually told the king ,if you want to kill me then you have to do this.say in the name of Allah the master of this boy and then proceed to kill him.finally the boy died.now, the jist of the story is that since the boy sacrificed his life so that an unbelieving populace would see the power of submission to the will of God.and since every one in the city knew of the kings failure to kill the boy his stature grew greatly.and when he died the people accepted islam,the king tortured them and dug a ditch,filled it with oil and burned the people.so the scholars say it is permissable using this evidence to kill yourself only in order to further Allah"s deen.and further more they say that since necessity knows no rules, under certain circumstances the killing of ones self is a praise worthy act.
2006-09-09 00:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
there was. i dont remember how the event went though. but it was about this soldier who fought courageusly and was well respected and a great warrior, and many believed he was a candidate for heaven as he did everything God asked. but he lost one battle and felt shame till he had to kill himself. and the Prphet S.a.w was very sad when he found out and said that he was destined to enter hell.
or sumthing like that. i hope i didnt get the facts (what facts there are of course) wrong.
2006-09-08 23:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by Prevent Animal Cruelty 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before the Quran, Muslims read the Torah. Now they act as if Jews and Christians are the scum of the earth. Islamic theology is so twisted with hypocritical hatred and what is worst is most muslims don't study or read the Quran and try to defend their ideology. Open your eyes to what you claim to be the word of God. By the way, the Quran is not even 600 years old, does anyone realize this? God put man on earth way before that.
2006-09-09 00:01:32 · answer #4 · answered by cusso74 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The Prophet (Saw) Said he who comits suicide will be doing it over and over again in hell fire increasing in pain each time
and allah knows best for more info contact me at ktl1409@yahoo.com
2006-09-08 23:55:34 · answer #5 · answered by ktl1409 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ktl1409 is correct. A person does not have the authority or right to suicide, since Allah made him and gave him life and only he has the authority to take it away.
A person who kills himself or gets killed deliberately(in battle) so that ppl remember him as a martyr, will burn in one of the worst fire's of hell.
The guy above me is soooo retarded, the quran is more 1,400 years old. And he is telling us to read our book first, i been reading it since i was in grade 3. LMAO, omg, WAT A RETARD.
2006-09-09 00:02:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
An-Nisa | 176 verses | The Women سÙرة اÙÙساء
Sura #4 | Madina
111 Whoso committeth sin committeth it only against himself. Allah is ever Knower, Wise.
An-Nisa | 176 verses | The Women سÙرة اÙÙساء
Sura #4 | Madina
107 And plead not on behalf of (people) who deceive themselves. Lo! Allah loveth not one who is treacherous and sinful.
108 They seek to hide from men and seek not to hide from Allah. He is with them when by night they hold discourse displeasing unto Him. Allah ever surroundeth what they do.
109 Ho! ye are they who pleaded for them in the life of the world. But who will plead with Allah for them on the Day of Resurrection, or who will then be their defender?
110 Yet whoso doeth evil or wrongeth his own soul, then seeketh pardon of Allah, will find Allah Forgiving, Merciful.
Al-Isra | 111 verses | The night journey سÙرة اÙإسراء
Sura #17 | Makkah
31 Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.
An-Nisa | 176 verses | The Women سÙرة اÙÙساء
Sura #4 | Madina
29 O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.
30 Whoso doeth that through aggression and injustice, we shall cast him into Fire, and that is ever easy for Allah.
An-Nisa | 176 verses | The Women سÙرة اÙÙساء
Sura #4 | Madina
93 Whoso slayeth a believer of set purpose, his reward is hell for ever. Allah is wroth against him and He hath cursed him and prepared for him an awful doom.
2006-09-09 00:03:36 · answer #7 · answered by marissa 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is a kind of stupid question but if you think about it Jesus committed suicide by allowing himself to be crucified
2006-09-08 23:58:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Hey, Christian boy! Leave them Muslims alone!
2006-09-08 23:54:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
“It is not the Islam alone which does not permit killing of oneself but in all God’s taught religions committing suicide is a sin and is not permitted. And the reason is this, that whosoever commits it, he practically announces that he does not believe in the power of blessfulness of the Lord. Mostly disappointed ones try to commit it and think that no one can change their circumstances. As such they do not know that God Almighty can change all sort of circumstances. God can change the fate and the fatal and can bless anything at anytime.
In all the God’s taught religions, One is not permitted to commit suicide. Instead one is commanded to pray for blessing and refuge in God and when one prays. Our Lord Almighty helps and shows the miraculous power. Our Lord can do anything so those who think that even God can not help, they are open non-believers. Our Lord, the Alone God is kind to the creatures and when someone prays, worships or asks for help or blessing, God positively blesses and helps. Therefore, all the distressed ones must seek the forgiveness of there sins from God and must ask for help and blessings from God alone.
Our Lord is honour-able and to honour God, is to believe in God’s Almightiness. According to God, those who do not consider God, the Almighty, they are non-believers of God.
As a matter of fact, the distressed ones are those who are the people of lust. Desires overcome them totally and make them sick up to such an extent that they start thinking about suicide. They dream nothing but this perishable world and its exhibited exposure of pleasures. Everything around them makes them sick and they consider the act of suicide as an act of salvation. But they do not know that this world is created by their Lord, not to last forever. Instead it is all-in-all perishable and one day; it will come to an end definitely.
These people, in fact, do not believe in God. Instead, they believe in their own nature. Instead of commandments, they follow their own rules and ambitions. Therefore, they become an easy prey of manifold sickness and instead of living and leading the life, they start thinking about suicide.
Some commit suicide due to repeated failure, some due to overwhelming sickness and some due to rejection of love. In all cases, however, suiciders think about one and the same thing that there is no one to help them and change their circumstances.
They also do not believe that their Lord can help them, even, on the edge. Hardly these people understand the meanings of life and its subject. These people do not know that this life is a challenge, which should be accepted with courage. Life, of course, is a challenge and this challenge is made to win, not to lose. Act of killing oneself is an act of cowardliness, not of bravery. Brave people keep on fighting this challenge constantly.
One should seriously think in this matter that why the circumstances slide to the wrong track. Who changes their route and who can re-change and redirect the circumstances to the right track.
One should positively understand that:
1.There are the people in this world, which never fell into problems.
2.There are the people in this world, which remain usually unblessed. Those who remain unblessed are the people who do not believe in the powers of God in accordance with the Commandments. They have many gods instead of the One God, the Alone Lord. Those who believe in One Lord, the Alone God, are always blessed by God and that is clearly mentioned in “Torah”, the Book of Moses.
Believers of the One Lord are always blessed and the believers of many gods, other than the Lord, ultimately, fell into the problems having no solutions. Lord says: “that is the reward of the people who worship gods, other than Me”.
According to the law of Lord, all the sinners are apt to face hard circumstances. Whenever the doom of God comes, it remains as it is and no one can change its nature.
According to the law of all the religions, Our God tests the believers-faith through difficult circumstances and after the test whosoever remains sincere with his or her Lord, he or she is blessed. Where-after the blessed believers become more powerful in faith and whenever, the hard sort of circumstances encircles them, they pray hard. Arrival of problems is considered by them as a call of worship. Believers correct themselves according to the law of the Lord and stop all kinds of sins to have refuge in Lord. They continuously pray their Lord and ask help and rescue. Our Lord is kind and lord, precisely, helps the believers.
No one can deny this fact that if the Lord had not created the troubles, one could have never remember the Lord through worship or other means. God is the Protecting Friend of each one of us. God always helps and saves.
Belief in God, the Alone Lord, is the key to success. God is the Alone Saviour and beside God there is no friend and saviour at all. Those who believe in various gods rather than the Lord, our Alone God, are left in disaster by God. Such people who believe in demi-gods, they suffer and remain in sufferings. Therefore, one should believe in One and the Alone God and must avoid believing in gods, other than God. God said on the mount of Sinai that:
“I ____ and I alone______ am God
No other god is real”.
(Duet 32:39)
EVEN THEN
There are the people who take refuge in others, rather than the Lord.
There are the people who beg blessings from the others, rather than the Lord.
There are the people who act according to law of others, rather than the commandments of the Lord.
There are the people who love others, more than the Lord.
There are the people who consider others, equal to God.
And there are the people who pray to others, rather than the Lord, our Alone God.
According to the Ten Commandments, all such people are enemies of God and God will take revenge from them, here in this world and there, on the Day of Judgement.
Friendship of God___ is to serve God and to obey God’s Commandments___ and to pray God and to beg each and everything___ directly from God___ and to ask forgiveness of sins from God alone.
Greatest success in this world is to consider the Almighty Lord as the One and the Alone Defender.
Whosoever hates the gods of the people around him and believes in God alone, is God’s true lover and a righteous person.
Jesus said,
“Praise God
Honour God
Worship God”.
(Psalm 22:23)
“No one is good but the God Alone”.
Jesus also prayed for the believers of One God in these words:
“May they (the believers of Alone God) prosper for ever”.
(Psalm 22:26)
Making a god with or beside the Alone God is an invitation to disaster and doom and also equal to SUICIDE.
Reason of banning suicide, according to the Scriptures, unveils the hidden facts. When God created the man, God blessed him spirit and made his well-designed body with clay and water. Even today every one possesses three different things, body, spirit and self.
1. Body:-
God made the body a performing machine to act according to the demands of self. It eats, wears, drinks, smells, tastes, sees, hears, touches and uses the universe. This thing works as a base of needs and demands. Though it seems different from other animals but it is not different at all. Its design is different but its nature is actually the same.
2. Spirit:-
God created it as an acting power. It is a Commandment and Will of our Lord and we use it for a little time (the life span) in space. Since it totally belongs to God, so we are answerable of its use. It is a guiding-light and our conscious-energy. All the things around us including angels and demons may effect it through suggestions and as a result we may move in right or wrong direction. It is not God because nothing can effect God and determine God’s mood. God is Holy and the Creator of all the things, which we can name. Spirits are sometimes, God guided and sometimes, demon guided and only God guided spirits are pious-ones and demon guided spirits are all-in-all evil.
3. Self:-
Self is the real being, fully equipped with the power of decisions. Self is the real man or woman, a sort of guest in the house of spirit and body. Self is a third dimension of our existence. Spirit makes the body move and all acts happen according to the decisions made by the self.
Our life is a gesture of these three things in our existence and we are passing through time.
Our universe/cosmos is a living story book and our’s selves are it’s characters. Particles of the body of universe, are alphabets and things in it are words, in physical and metaphysical form the words of God. Cosmos is a spirit of the body of universe, which runs it and makes it meaningful.
The universe/cosmos is a book of God for our reading.
Above that Moral State is a law of God (Not God) over universe/cosmos___ to award the right and wrong___ done by the creatures.
Our’s selves are free beings to act freely. We may act according to the Commandments of God or we may follow our own way. Results of the both are predominantly different. Servants of God are blessed but followers of Demon are cursed. And both of the type of acts are being precisely recorded, on the most sensitive tape of cosmos and in the book of universe, for the ultimate judgement.
We own nothing but our free Selves, which are conscious-beings, belonging to the moral state. Spirits are immaterial things, belonging to the cosmos. And, Bodies are material things, belonging to the universe.
All attentions appear in our Selves and our acts are the expressions of our Selves. And our Selves are answerable to God for each and every act. If the acts are done according to the God’s Commandments, they are known as right and good deeds. And, if the acts are done according to the suggestions of Satan, then, they are known as wrong and evil deeds or sins. Good deeds lead us to prosperity and Heaven and evil deeds lead us to the doom and Hell.
Such a situation is under operation in the moral state.
Spirit and Body, the both are great gifts of our Lord blessed to our Self.
Now think yourself!
If I ask you, “From where have you got this body? Does it belong to you?
What will be your answer? If you say, “It belongs to me and I got it from this world”___ Then I shall ask you, “To whom you paid its price and for how much you purchased it?
You will start thinking and will positively understand what I wanted to let you know. You will realize that it is a gifted thing and your Creator has blessed it to you. It is nothing but a great, beautiful and precious gift of your Almighty Lord.
NOW
Ponder over this assumption. Suppose; you like someone and want to show your love to him or her. In such a situation, you will buy a thing and will give it to him or her as a gift as you know that through this way you can express your love. If he or she accepts it and gives honour to your gift and pays thanks; what will be your feelings? You will definitely feel a great joy and will become his or her friend. And, if he or she not only rejects your gift but also throws it down in the dust and smashes it or kicks it with his or her foot; what will be your feelings?
Now I hope, you can understand in a better way that when someone commits or attempts suicide, he or she smashes and ruins the gifts of his or her loving Lord, Therefore, the Lord does not like such an act and curses the suiciders. Anger of the Lord is expressed in the Law of banning suicide in all of the religions.
In fact, killing of one’s ownself is equal to the killing of someone else while every soul is a precious creation of the Lord. Such people, who commit suicide or kill others, are evildoers. Both are criminals, in the sight of our Lord and deserve punishment.
Purpose of life is the worship of the Lord alone. This life is nothing but a test of obedience to the Alone Lord.
Each and every thing is perishable of our present life. As compared to the eternal life, this life is a dream like reality and life in Heaven is not perishable but that is the real life.
In this worldly life, our death is with us on each and every step while the eternal life is without an end. Everyone will either rejoice due to good deeds or will face torture due to evil deeds forever.
Ram Chander Jee said, “Whosoever has taken birth, will face death”. He was right to say so because each and every Book of our Lord tells this truth in open words. It is repeatedly announced in all the Books that each and everyone will taste death and this universe will come to an end for another beginning.
Only the Creator of life and death, is forever.
Life with death, can never be considered as a real life. It is, of course, similar to real life. People of wisdom do understand its temporal nature. It looks like a child’s play but its not a child’s play. It is a mean of test, so one should remain sincere to the Lord and live and fight with patience for the eternal life constantly. One should serve his or her Lord whole-heartedly and establish his or her love for the Lord alone.
Death can come at anytime in this temporal life and when the moment of death reaches it, makes it finished. We leave each and everything and move to the destined destination, empty-handed and empty-minded. Nothing remains important and the death itself reveals the answers of all the questions, which we can not, perhaps, understand during the lifetime. It opens up the eyes of each and everyone. It is the moment of death, alone which lets us know the importance of belief. Death releases our self and takes away the spirit and body in the same way as it normally happens in our dreams.
In a dream, Spirit and Body remain apart and only our Self sees and feels everything. We hear without ears and see without eyes and when we die in a dream, our eyes open here, in this world.
The same thing happens when someone dies here; in this world, his or her eyes open in the eternal life and one can not come back to this life to let the others know about the process of death as a dream-awaken can not go back to the dream.
After death or suicide body becomes like a closed door which spiritless-self can not open to feel and see this world and self becomes world-less or body-less to be called dead.
Suicide is not an end of everything. It is simply the beginning of next life without a further chance to do a good or a bad deed. Death, in fact, is an end of this life and beginning of the next life, which will be the result of the deeds, done here. One must know this very fact comprehensively.
Nothing will go along, with the dead but his good or bad deeds for Judgement. This life is a way to the next life. It is not our destination. Since, the believers know this thing through faith, so they are not scared of death. Instead they are scared of the anger of their Lord and do good deeds. The believers are brave due to their belief and the non-believers are coward due to the lack of knowledge and belief.
Only such people, who do not know the reality of this life, try to commit suicide and think that this will be an end of their sickness. Whereas, suicide is not an end of any sickness but it is the beginning of doom. Whosoever kills himself, he walks out of the test and such a person is declared failed and doomed to Hell.
Reality of the law, on which nature survives, is revealed in our nature. Even the most beautiful thing which we achieve, start boring us by the passage of time and what is to say about the boring things. Our life is not meant to waste in the pursuits of worldly things but it is an open test and is a preparation plan of the eternal life. One will sow here and will cut there in the next life.
At last, God shows mercy to mankind and says in revelation that if someone will not believe in the gods, besides the Alone Lord, the Lord will show mercy to such one and will forgive his or her sins.
“Lo! Allah (The Alone Lord) forgives not that a partner should be ascribed unto Allah. Allah forgives (all) save that to whom Allah will. Whose ascribes partners to Allah (The Alone Lord), has wandered far astray”.
(Quran 4:116)
This promise takes our attention to these words of Torah.
“I ___and I alone___ am God
No other god is real”.
(Bible, Duet 32:39)
Therefore, one should not believe in three or many gods, instead, one should believe in only One and Alone Unseen God. One should not consider this world or universe as a god as pantheists consider “Everything is god and god is every thing”.
Whereas, God has already clearly mentioned in Torah that nothing resembles to God. Please read this text carefully:
“Worship no god but Me. Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol (image) or worship it, because I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation”.
(Bible, Exodus 20:3, 4, 5)
Therefore, one should simply believe in One Alone Lord and understand that nothing resembles to the Lord and Lord is the UNSEEN.
This faith will serve as a key to the heaven.
2006-09-09 03:14:38 · answer #10 · answered by ibn adam 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋