Assalamu Alaikum
Mashallah, you have the ability to reflect. But let's reflect a little bit deeper.
Allah is the MOST fair, the most just, "Al'Adl". It's not on you or anyone else to decide what is considered to be fair when it comes to evaluating a person's soul. Actually, you being the judge of someone's soul would be considered very unfair. What you are talking about is not fairness...it's MERCY. And again, Allah is indeed the MOST merciful as it is one of his attributes--"ArRaheem." So this is something you must get straight in your head first. As a Muslim you absolutely cannot consider Allah as less than that. You have no option in that regard. Your opinion of what is fair and unfair is based solely on the perspective of this world. You do not know about the wider scope of things.
Secondly, if you do not pass the exams successfully, will you EVER become or be accepted as a doctor? Even after 1000 or a billion years? No.
This is the life. Allah gave us this life as a test. We chose this test, and when the results are in that is your final destination. So because this life is so short you can say it is easy while others say it is difficult. It's a bit of both, but for every difficulty Allah gives us compensation, and for every sin, there is a way to repent, and when something good happens to us we have to remember Allah for the blessing and remember that our blessings are also a test. Islam describes in detail what the hellfire is and what jannah is. He tells us exactly how to avoid hellfire and how to enter jannah. If someone rejects Islam, causes fitnah for others, insults people, oppresses them, kills them, insults Allah, and feels elated when Muslims or anyone in general loses their faith in Allah, and dies so defiantly against this religion or anything good in this world, then they are in every sense and definition, the inhabitants of hellfire. But again, that's for Allah to decide in the end.
Great post!!
Just have something to add.
We have chosen to participate in this test personally:
Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant. Quran (Al-`Ahzab - 72)
But realize that this test is not for Allah to examine whether you are rightful or not. He already knows the intentions you will have in your lifetime and the choices you will make.
Allah is the only one who knows the future.
This test is for you and for you alone. It’s purpose is only to record your deeds.
For example:
Suppose we did not get this test.
One day, Allah takes you and throws you in Jahannam…just like that!
Your obvious reaction will be like: “why? What did I do to deserve this?”
Allahs reply would be something like “because I know you better than yourself”
But you would not understand this answer. For you, it will look unfair.
By taking this test you are making your very self as a witness of your deeds.
Second, Allah is so merciful, that he made Jahannam almost impossible to enter.
For every good deed planned and executed you will get multiple credits.
For every bad deed planned but not executed you will get credits.
For every bad deed planned and executed you will get one sin, but only if you do not regret it and make tawbaah within x time (do not know this exactly)
If you have imaan in your heart with the weight of a mustard seed, your final destination is Jannah.
So you must do a lot wrong if you want to end up in Jahannam.
For what I know, both Jannah and Jahannam are eternal. Once entered, you will never leave.
People with Imaan who have done a lot of wrong, will be punished severely for their sins until they have no more sins and will enter Jannah for eternity.
People with no Imaan who have lived a good life, will be rewarded generously for their good deeds, until they have no more good deeds, and will enter Jahannam for eternity.
Your grave can be a garden of Jannah or a pit of Jahannam for this purpose but it is not the real thing.
The eternal Jannah or Jahannam is only accessible after Judgement day when you have to cross the Sirat Bridge.
So it just boils down to believing or not believing.
Last but not least, you cannot imagine how mercifull Allah is. So, serving 70 years, and get rewarded for eternity may sounds unlogical to you, but then again…Allahs wisdom and mercifulness is beyond our grasp of understanding.
