Muslims, what are the criteria for going to Heaven?

Answer 1

I am not a muslim, but I hope people who commits suicide go to hell forever.

Answer 2

Honestly speaking, this criteria is not a narrow and simple one. I studied Qur'an and Sunnah, what I found, if a Muslim 1. has strong faith in Islam and 2. never did shirk (associating something/someone with God) then it is highly likely that s/he will enter heaven.

Now the question is if a Muslim did many wrong deeds and sins then? In case of a sinner Muslim, s/he can still get to heaven if the above two criteria are met. In this situation, the Muslim's good deeds and bad deeds will be weighed, and if the bad deeds outweigh good deeds, s/he will go into hell for a specific time. After the bad deeds are expatiated, s/he will be sent to heaven, Insha-allah.

Allah is source of strength, He knows best.

You can read the following links:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546800
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547668

Answer 3

ONly three things that assure that you aren't going to heaven:
1) fornication
2) killing once without purpose (religion doesn't count as purpose enough, only actions can count)
3) turning your back on God and his word. Converting out of the path of righteousness, or the path in which you do good things.

Also, you must either:

1) Say: "I know-believe that there is no god, but GOD, and I know-believe that Muhammad is his slave-servant and his Prophet."

OR

2) be a Christian or Jew (do whatever you must do to become christian, or do whatever you must do to become Jewish)


IF you still fit the criteria, then you are judged on how good you are etc.

If you are going into heaven as a Muslim
(not a Jew and not a Christian, but you said: "I know-believe that there is no god, but GOD, and I know-believe that Muhammad is his slave-servant and his Prophet.")


THEN, you are MAINLY judged on these five things:
Prayer, Charity, Fasting, Pilgrimige, and Statement (which means that you have said: "I know-believe that there is no god, but GOD, and I know-believe that Muhammad is his slave-servant and his Prophet."


But really, the true judgement is over good actions and good intentions.



P.S.: I'm voting for John S, so name his the best answer, not mine.

His is the one that starts like this:
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I asked islamicity the same thing (out of curiosity, I'm an atheist), Here's what they said:
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Answer 4

My vote is for the athiest guy above with the long koran/hadith quote.

Islam gives no clear answer or assurance of whether an adherant will ever get to paradise. They can only hope for the best. The exception being if they die as a martyr for jihad. That's how they can convince the young stupid ones to blow themselves up in Israel and Iraq (that, and promising to give money to their poor families).

Answer 5

I asked islamicity the same thing (out of curiosity, I'm an atheist), Here's what they said:

Question:
What does one require to get into paradise?

Answer:
Bismillahir-RaHmanir-RaHeem. Allah swt says: "There is not one of you but will pass over it (Hell); this is with your Lord; a Decree which must be accomplished. Then We shall save those who use to fear Allâh and were dutiful to Him. And We shall leave the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc.) therein (humbled) to their knees (in Hell). " (19:71,72) It explains that whole mankind will have to pass over the Hell. Then the persons who fear Almighty Allah will be saved from it. It does not say that Muslims will go to Hell. Muslim means the one who completely submits to Allâh and fears Him. Almighty Allah says: "Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy, He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise). But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light, He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell). " (101:6 to 9) Allah swt says: "And give glad tidings to those who believe and do righteous good deeds, that for them will be Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise). Every time they will be provided with a fruit therefrom, they will say: "This is what we were provided with before," and they will be given things in resemblance (i.e. in the same form but different in taste) and they shall have therein Azwâjun Mutahharatun (purified mates or spouses), (having no menses, stools, urine, etc.) and they will abide therein forever. " (2:25) Also, "30. Verily, those who say: "Our Lord is Allâh (Alone)," and then they Istaqâmû , on them the angels will descend (at the time of their death) (saying): "Fear not, nor grieve! But receive the glad tidings of Paradise which you have been promised! 31. "We have been your friends in the life of this world and are (so) in the Hereafter. Therein you shall have (all) that your inner-selves desire, and therein you shall have (all) for which you ask for. 32. "An entertainment from (Allâh), the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." " (41: 30 to 32) May Allah guide us all to the straight path! Wassalam and Allah Almighty knows best.

Thank you

www.islamiCity.com

Personally, I shouldn't be answering after Poki Poki, he's probably the one who can answer any Islam related question... But that's what they said. Oh and by the way, you are going to get a lot of crap about 72 virgins. But look at the Qur'an, it never mentions seventy two virgins...

Answer 6

1- to believe in Allah/God, the angels, ALL his prophets and ALL his revelations.
2- pray (salat)
3- give charity (zakat)
those are the basics and most important.

the divine revelations tell you how to live a righteous life which leads to heaven.

but as my friend John S mentioned, the good deeds out weights the bad ones, but if your bad deeds out weights your good deeds you will be punished for what you've done (Allah is just) then you'll get to go to heaven after (Allah is the most merciful)
and Allah knows best.

Answer 7

HEAVEN IS AROUND U SOLID AS THE ROCK AND REALITY SO FORGET ABOUT ANY CREITERIAS WHICH SERVES ONLY AS ILLUSION

Answer 8

Regardless of your religion...

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Answer 9

become a slave to GOD

Answer 10

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.

On the day of the Lord, there will be two kinds of people:
1.The blessed believers.
2.The doomed non-believers.
According to our Lord, Polytheism and Pantheism, both of the beliefs are equal to Atheism.

TODAY

There are three kinds of people, living under the heaven and these kinds are as below:
1. Those who are Polytheists & Pantheists and believe in more than One God or believe that God is before their eyes in the form of universe. Apparently these people seem blessed as they are enjoying a luxurious life. These people face only minor problems during life but they face sever doom near death.

2. Those who are polytheists or pantheists and are leading hard life, full of difficulties and problems.

3. People of the Lord, who remain thankful to their Lord in all sort of circumstances and are always obedient to their Lord.

These three kinds are explained here:

1. “Prosperous Polytheists and Pantheists”.

Many in this world are those who believe in gods, demigods, things, angels, signs, pictures, prints, animals and demons, instead of God. Such people beg for help and blessings from things and persons, instead of God and do not know that through this act they commit the crime of making false gods. These people think that persons and things can cause profit or loss to them and due to ignorance they do not know this fact that only One Alone Almighty God can cause profit or loss and no one, other than God, can cause any profit or any loss at all.

God Almighty seems very kind to these people but in fact God has forsaken them as they have forsaken God. They are enjoying their lives and do not bother to ponder over the revealed facts to correct their faith and life style.

The Scripture says: when these people will face the Lord on the Day of Judgement, the Lord will command to throw such people in Hell due to their tremendous sins. They have enjoyed enough in the world and ignored the remembrance of their Lord and followed the footsteps of Demon.

Scripture also says that one should not spend himself for the sake of this world, instead one should try hard to achieve eternal life. Rejoice of the eternal life is many time larger than the pleasures of this world. And one cannot achieve the eternal life without following the Commandments and believing in One God alone. Ofcourse this perishable world is a joy of little time, as far as the preaching is concerned it is enough to state that this life ends with death, and it is not everlasting.

2. Failure Sick Polytheists and Pantheists.

Many people of this world believe that men or women, achieve the powers of God through hard worship and become God’s partners or friends and can solve the problems of others, through the achieved spiritual power. They also think that God does not reject whatsoever they demand from God. Therefore, the people, themselves, can become the saviours or the authoritative blessers.
This sort of belief is openly condemned by the Lord. According to the Lord, everyone is special to Lord and whosoever takes care of the Lord’s Commandments, Lord, in turn takes care of him or her. Therefore, everyone must seek God’s blessings through obedience and adherence to God directly.

Meanings of the word “God”

It is clearly mentioned, “no one shares the powers of God”. That is why God commanded in “Torah”.
“Worship no god but Me”.
“No god” means no one can cause profit or loss and “but Me” means only One and Alone God who blesses or punishes.

And, worship means begging for the help and blessings. A worshipper is a servant who serves his own cause and prays to achieve certain goal. If someone considers a thing or a person as a profit or loss causing entity, instead of God. Then, it clearly means that he or she considers that thing or person as god. And, this very act is considered by God, as “making of an unreal god”.

That is why that God does not tolerate such evil-doers and curses them. God is our All Alone Lord and God Alone is our Helper, Saviour and Blesser.

Since many Polytheists or Pantheists think that they should not call the God directly. Instead, they must seek help from the people, who are partners or friends of God. So, they remain unblessed. God blesses only those who call God directly and do not make gods beside God.
God says:
“Surely pure worship is for Allah (God) only and those who choose protecting friends beside God (they say); We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allah. Lo! Allah will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Lo! Allah guides not him who is a liar and ingrate”.
(Al-Quran 39:3)

These Polytheists & Pantheists remain in troubles and keep on searching for the so-called proper person or a thing, which could bless them or ask God to bless them. God does not bless them in order to make them realize that the God alone is the Real Helper and Blesser, Who should be called by them directly. As such God wants them to purify their faith and rectify their belief. Consequently, sometimes they realize the fact and start calling their Lord directly and become real believers.

Those who call the Lord directly____ Lord shows them the way. The Lord even shows the way to those who do not call the Lord directly. But they always turn their faces from the Lord and keep on calling and begging from their self-evolved partners and friends of God. Ultimately, the Lord fulfills their desires where-after they think that their self-evolved god-like-friends, have blessed them. Such a situation confirms their false belief and that is the curse of God.

Of course, failure sick people listen to all sorts of preachers carefully and sometimes when God gives them guidance through the proper preachers, they rectify their faith in God and establish pure worship.

Blessed are those who have soft hearts and on soft hearts preaching effects very well. They are not like prosperous polytheists or pantheists who mock over the Verses and pull their faces to the preachers. God raises God’s people from this class which possess soft hearts and mild natures.

3. The Believers

Real believers are very few in this world. These people strictly believe in One Alone God and observe God’s Commandments. This class never trusts persons or things, instead, they trust the Lord Alone and beg blessings from God alone. Such people love the Lord alone and pay all sorts of tribute to God alone.

These people praise, honour and worship their Lord and they always keep their eyes open. They act upon the Commandments and worship hard and follow the footsteps of Prophets instead of Demon. On the Day of Judgement, they will enter into the gardens of Paradise and will live therein forever, just because they did not accept any god, other then the Alone Lord and submitted themselves before God with full submission.

Pantheism of Polytheism is equal to Atheism. And the faith in Alone Lord as a Helper & Saviour will serve as a key of success to open the doors of Heaven on the Day of Judgement.

God loves those who love God
and
blesses those who trust God
and
believe in God according to
God’s Commandments alone.