And what about agnostics who are not sure of existence of God? They might go like 'I'm going to feed the poor,and if there's a God I'm doing it for you.'
I think you are referring to my post in the other thread. Yes, that is what i have learned, good deeds of any kind will have its rewards but only those done to please God will be rewarded by Him on judgement day.
The soul has a longing for God, but the soul can be corrupted and the longing silenced. But seriously, are there atheists that haven't heard of God at all in this age? As you might have read in my post on the other thread, for those who never got any message of God from any source, God willing, as stated in Surah Ash-Shams, the conscience/soul will be the final 'failsafe' hope to gain God's mercy.
I used to think like this as well, that it isn't logical. After many years of acquiring knowledge, this is how i understand my place in the scheme of things. I belong to God. As a slave to God he is free to do with me whatever he pleases. Whatever is sent my way, like it or not, I will have to take it. The good, I must thank Him, the bad, I must pray to Him for relief from it. It is due to His mercy that he has blessed me with so many good things in this life, Alhamdulillah. I understand in a lot of literature and media, God is portrayed as being unconditionally forgiving, merciful and loving to all mankind. This may be true at some point of everyone's life but God will also hate, curse and declare war on some people because of what they do or don't do. Allah's name include Al-Muntaqim (The Avenger/Punisher), Al-Mudhill (The Humiliator), Ad-Darr (The Distressor, The Harmer, The Afflictor). So we must beware of His wrath. He is God, the Almighty, He owns us all. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks, all that matters is what He thinks of us on judgement day. He will do whatever He wants whenever He wants. We cannot demand anything of Him, we can only request, so beware.
If you look at the world from another perspective, this planet is a very nice gift from God. It has everything we need to live on it, it is perfect for mankind. Our senses are a gift beyond any value. What would you give and pay to restore your sight should you lose it? God has only given good things to us. So why is there suffering? The suffering are all man made. Even natural disasters are caused by the activities of mankind but that will be even more difficult to explain in here. So all good things come from God, and what have a lot of people done? They thank/worship something/someone else instead, or completely ignore Him, while blaming everything that is wrong on Him. I must say I find it unjust.
God willing, He will be the Most Merciful to those who acknowledge they are His servants while willingly surrender to His will and would be the Ultimate Punisher and Avenger to those who never repented having wronged Him and His creations.
Allah and His messenger knows best.
As for eternal punishment,how will a person survive that? He would go crazy. They would be no source of entertainment.
Nice article. Yeah I'm pretty sure all most all atheists knows about the existence of God. And what will that final test be for the people who never heard of Islam? Is it mentioned in the Quran?
Yes we belong to God,but I'm still not getting a straightforward answer that how it's logical for 1.5 billion Muslims only too go to heaven. He may have blessed us with alot of things in this life which I'm thankful,but I'm concerned how only minority of people will go to heaven and majority hell.
As for natural disasters,they are the anger of God right?