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There will be no one of you who will not enter it (Hell) This was an inevitable decree of your Lord. Afterwards he may save some of the pious, God-fearing Muslims out of the burning fire. Or as Arberry translates it more literally: No one of you there is, but he shall go down to it; That for thy Lord is a thing decreed, determined. Then We shall deliver those that were god-fearing; and the evildoers We shall leave there, hobbling on their knees. This makes clear that all Muslims [everybody] will go to Hell, and only some of them will eventually be rescued from Hell, while others will be left there forever. I don't have the verse handy currently and Yusuf Ali's index doesn't list this [if you know where it is, please tell me], but it is well known that Muslims believe that those Muslims who die in Jihad, i.e. as martyrs while fighting for Allah, will go to Paradise immediately. This contradicts Sura 19:71.
Besides being contradictory, this verse must be incredibly disturbing to Muslims, who can only look forward to go to Hell when they die. At least it was disturbing to Sultan Muhammad Khan, who was moved to carefully study everything that Islam says about salvation and later became a Christian because of his research. You can read about this in his testimony.
Last edited: November 11, 1996 |
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