Islam says scales will be setup on the day of Judgement to weigh our good and bad deeds ?

Question

Faith without Good Deeds is hollow.

Deeds without Faith are weightless.

Answer 1

Seems a lot more fair than the Christian system where a mass murderer who 'gets Jesus' on his deathbed gets a ticket to heaven without enduring a single minute's punishment...

Answer 2

Where did ya hear that? Islam is a faith with good and bad deeds just like every other faith in the world so I dont really get this :\

Answer 3

Ahhhh.. classic misstep. Didn't ya know that a single thing will outweigh a persons evil deeds-be they as many as the froth in the sea. When his scales are heavy with his evil deeds-one deed will be brought forth and it will be la ila ha il Allah - there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah, and this alone will outweigh all his evil deeds-subject to his sincerety and this is the greatest deed of the heart and the soul-the belief and commitment to worship of Allah alone without setting up partners (or sons) to him and devoting all worship and obedience only to him.

Answer 4

The Bible says that there will be a judgment day and every person will stand before God and have to give answers for all you "mis-deeds". What would scales know about anything? Pops

Answer 5

Like Christians, Muslims believe that the present life is only a trial preparation for the next realm of existence. This life is a test for each individual for the life after death. A day will come when the whole universe will be destroyed and the dead will be resurrected for judgment by God. This day will be the beginning of a life that will never end. This day is the Day of Judgment. On that day, all people will be rewarded by God according to their beliefs and deeds. Those who die while believing that “There is no true god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of God” and are Muslim will be rewarded on that day and will be admitted to Paradise forever, as God has said:


And those who believe and do good deeds, they are dwellers of Paradise, they dwell therein forever. (Quran, 2:82)

But those who die while not believing that “There is no true god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of God” or are not Muslim will lose Paradise forever and will be sent to Hellfire, as God has said:

And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him and he will be one of the losers in the Hereafter. (Quran, 3:85)

And as He has said:

Those who have disbelieved and died in disbelief, the earth full of gold would not be accepted from any of them if it were offered as a ransom. They will have a painful punishment, and they will have no helpers. (Quran, 3:91)

One may ask, ‘I think Islam is a good religion, but if I were to convert to Islam, my family, friends, and other people would persecute me and make fun of me. So if I do not convert to Islam, will I enter Paradise and be saved from Hellfire?’

The answer is what God has said in the preceding verse, “And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him and he will be one of the losers in the Hereafter.”

After having sent the Prophet Muhammad to call people to Islam, God does not accept adherence to any religion other than Islam. God is our Creator and Sustainer. He created for us whatever is in the earth. All the blessings and good things we have are from Him. So after all this, when someone rejects belief in God, His Prophet Muhammad , or His religion of Islam, it is just that he or she be punished in the Hereafter. Actually, the main purpose of our creation is to worship God alone and to obey Him, as God has said in the Holy Quran (51:56).

This life we live today is a very short life. The unbelievers on the Day of Judgment will think that the life they lived on earth was only a day or part of a day, as God has said:

He (God) will say, “How many years did you stay on the earth?” They will say: “We stayed a day or part of a day....” (Quran, 23:112-113)

And He has said:

Did you then think that We had created you in jest (without any purpose), and that you would not be returned to Us (in the Hereafter)? So, God is exalted, the True King. None has the right to be worshipped but Him... (Quran, 23:115-116)

The life in the Hereafter is a very real life. It is not only spiritual, but physical as well. We will live there with our souls and bodies.

In comparing this world with the Hereafter, the Prophet Muhammad said: {The value of this world compared to that of the Hereafter is like what your finger brings from the sea when you put it in and then take it out.}1 The meaning is that, the value of this world compared to that of the Hereafter is like a few drops of water compared to the sea.

Answer 6

"For it is by Grace that you have been saved, through faith- and this is not of yourselves- it is the gift of God, not by works[good deeds] so that no one can boast."-Ephesians 2:8-9 - The Bible

"That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."-Romans 10:9 - The Bible


Who can think that we can appease a Holy perfect God with our good deeds? Who thinks that we will somehow be saved by our own merit? Who thinks that good deeds will cover your sins, or even outway them?

All have sinned and have fallen short of the Glory of God.

That is why God sent His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, to die on a cross and take the punishment for our sins...

That if we believe that He did this, and rose to live again... we will be saved.. and our sins forgiven...


Jesus is God's grace to the world.


-Splinter_In_Finger

Answer 7

Ah... sounds familiar.

'cept I'm thinking of a heart and a feather. Kemeticism... there's the good ol'-skool stuff.


- 17 yo Pagan

Answer 8

Yes, so the only assured way to get to heaven is to die fighting jihad. When you do that, your deeds don't matter anymore.

Answer 9

No. If you have not excepted Jesus as your savior you are going straight to hell. If you have, you have been saved cause God sent his son into the world that we may be saved.

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Answer 10

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