alikum okay my name is Salah Ai and I'm
a software engineer my first part of the
question concerns with whether agnostics
or people who are good-hearted because
in many of the discourses that I had
with non-muslims regarding jna and the
concept of the Hereafter in Islam the
question that they ask is what if a
non-muslim who does not necessarily
believe in Islam but does believe that
God exists what if his actions and deeds
have been good and well intentioned in
this world will he still be admitted
into jna or will he be thrown into
Hellfire just because he didn't believe
in Islam even though everything else
that he did in this life turned out to
be good and he'll be remembered for that
the second part of my question relates
to uh another question put up by many
non-muslims to me that is when you're
talking about Islam to be a balanced
religion between materialism and
spiritualism don't you think since jna
is a reality and since jna is so clearly
defined in the Quran don't you think the
ultimate aim of Islam is to attain the
materialism that jna describes in the
Quran so how do I explain explain it to
them that this is ain't
materialism uh the kind of which you're
thinking about but it's something
different thank
you okay the first
question was about well first I have to
comment on your name though Mr
Salah I hope inshallah you have a grand
future ahead of you more than just as a
software engineer may you follow in the
steps of Salah a and may you also do
things likeah did inshallah um your
first question
was is it possible for a person who
rejects Islam to enter Jenna and the
response is a unequivocal explicit no
and that's something that the Quran is
very clear about but I rephrase your
question and I said is it possible for a
person who rejects Islam to enter Jenna
no is it possible for a person who is
not aware of Islam who is ignorant of
Islam who has not been exposed to Islam
who has never heard of Islam is it
possible for such a person to enter
Jenna the response is yes Allah might
forgive a certain category of those
people and that is a theological issue
which we can talk about perhaps in the
seminar that I'm going to give in two
days but if a person knows the religion
of Islam and has been exposed to it and
knowing what it is he rejects it
there is no question that such a person
has rejected the truth now you say he
lives a life of good for us as Muslims
this is an oxymoron you cannot live a
life of good without being a true Muslim
in other words let me give you an
analogy
suppose
somebody feeds one poor person every
day every day he passes by he goes He
feeds a poor person and this deed is
announced to the public the public will
love him and respect him but suppose now
we find out that along with feeding a
poor person every day he also murders
another
person let me ask you will that good
deed of giving some Dal and Roy and
chavel to a poor person will that deed
cause his murder to be forget forgotten
and overlooked no you will say murder is
much worse than this good deed that you
have done your evil deed has eclipsed
the good that you have done for us
rejecting Allah claiming that the
prophet was a liar and that's what
you're claiming when you say Islam is
not true when you say Islam is not true
you are claiming that the prophet is a
liar for us to make this claim is so
evil that a lifetime of good cannot make
it up to make a claim that you worship
another God besides Allah and you say
this is morally acceptable it doesn't
matter that evil overshadows all of the
other good that you have done so the
question
really and truly no matter how
Politically Incorrect it might be the
reality is our religion is very clear
and by the way we are not the only
religion to believe in this Christianity
also believes the only way to God is
through the son the only way to the
father is through the path of the sun
unless you believe in Jesus Christ you
will not be saved even if you do it a
lifetime of good other religions also
have the same belief we call it the
belief
of uh salvic exclusivity that salvation
is is exclusive to that faith it is a
common belief even Hindus and Buddhists
they will tell you the only way to
achieve MOA the only way to achieve
Nirvana is if you follow the path of the
yoga the path of the eight-fold path you
cannot achieve it by being a Muslim by
being a Christian by being any other
religion so the reality is every
religion restricts salvation to itself
it's not something only the Muslims say
so when your agnostic or or or atheist
friend tells says this explain to him
this is a reality of every religion that
the religion believes it is the only way
to reach salvation and that is something
that you must think about the second
part was how do we explain the
materialism uh of the uh Jenna the
reality is as we said Jenna has more
than this materialism it has as well of
Allah subhah wa tala the people of Jenna
will remember Allah it has as well
discussions and conversations in other
words intellectual Pursuits the Quran
tells us about the discussions of the
people of Jenna because of the time
constraints I could not talk about
everything but Jenna is the ultimate
realization of the Perfection of man so
there is material blessings there are
intellectual blessings there are
blessings of looking at Allah subhana wa
taala there is everything that the
person can desire it's not just about
the materialism so you explain to this
person Jenna is a healthy mix of
everything but no doubt being who we are
and no doubt we are created from clay
and we have a strong animal Instinct
Allah also emphasizes that instinct and
there is nothing to be ashamed or
embarrassed about that facet of Jenna