in Islam when you go to hell do you stay there for eternity or a certain amount of time?

Answer 1

That depends on a few things:

if you have died a man who has the smallest faintest faith in God, but have sins that you havent repented for: God will judge you based on each and every one of your actions.

If after the judgment your sins are not forgiven and youre still a believer in God, you enter Hell, pay for your sins, and get out after some time to live in heaven by the grace of God for believing and having faith in Him.

There are a couple of people God says will go to hell and remain there for ever tho. This is what the Quran lists:

Hypocrites, those who go back and forth between two people and try to seperate their relationship, magicians or those who claim to have power to do things beside God, disbelievers who hear the message of Islam completely but chose not to believe it, people who eat the money of the poor and orphans, people who prevent the believers from worshipping God and practice their religion, anyone who prevents or twists the message of Islam.

Thats a good comprehensive list there.

There are two things God does not forgive even if you ask repentance:

1. if you eat the rights of another human or living being: through hurt of any kind, words, slander, financial, stealing etc. When the day of judgement arrives and God takes the person you hurt and asks them if they forgive you, if they dont, youre basically done for.

2. Holding partners with the Creator knowingly.

Answer 2

Hi Adam, if you go to Hell it is forever and there is no reprieve at all, Hell is the permanent abode of the damned, this question raises the weakness in some Protestant theology,to be able to go into the presence of God we have to be totally without stain of sin,so how can this be rectified? it is only really understandable by the doctrine of Purgatory,where sin is purified and cleansed away from our souls, and the good news is that this is not a permanent state but the precursor to Heaven.

Answer 3

To add to what Razen said,

Philosophical groups of Muslims use the term "only God knows"...unlike fundamentalist Christians, there is an "out" for people who die before converting to Islam. They say, "Only God knows if that person would have converted to Islam if they have lived a bit longer." So these philosophical (liberal or moderate, I guess you would say) are far less likely to preach Hellfire and Damnation as Christians are.

Answer 4

Actually it all depends on your faith, if you believe that there is no god but God and that Mohammed (PBUH) is His messenger, then you go to heaven but you would go to Hell to repent your sins
but if you did not have that belief, you enter Hell for eternity,,and there are many verses that support that
But there are people who were faithful in their life, and God-fearing some of those will have the chance not going to Hell but straight to Heaven, it all depends on your beliefs and actions..(that's pretty much everything)

Answer 5

According to the holy Quran, God had promised muslims Heaven but of course sinners have to go through certain punishments according to their sins before allowing into the Heaven.

Answer 6

That depends on your interpretation of Islam. I would say that Hell and Heaven are symbols which refer to remoteness or nearness to God.

Answer 7

you stay there for as long as you need to repay your sins. So not forever.