Question for Muslims

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Thanku Muslimah for clarifying, jazaky Allah khayr. nice smiley, though no smiley showing lol.

1)Do Jews and Christians make it to heaven? (looking for a simple "yes" or "no" to help with confusion lol).

If they beleive in prophet Muhammad as a messenger for all human beings, in other way they must pronounce shahada. There are many priests I heard about that embraced islam, but they are hiding it afraid of what will happen to them from their family or masters in church, so these only Allah knows about them we dont, so we cannot say if any will go to hell or fire except Allah, but if he dies in a state of disbeleiving in Allah's onnes and that prophet Muhammad is his last messenger for all humanity, as the Quran said and ahadeeth of prophet Muhammad, that it will not be accepted from him.

2)If a Jew or Christian firmly believes in God, and that there is only one God and recognizes Muhammed(pbuh) ( as well as many others) as his prophet, what then would seperate him from a Muslim and stop him from entering heaven?

If u are in this state then u are not a jew or christian, u r a muslim but u need to pronounce the shahadateen, then nothing will stop u from entering heaven except Allah's will.

3)Also...what about someone who is neither christian, nor jew, nor muslim. This is far fetched, but bare with me for the example:
What if someone grew up on an island all by themselves, without having anything. No books, no communication with others, not a single thing. How would he know to praise God? Without the Quran, he wouldnt. He wouldnt even know what religion was, let alone which one was correct. Would he get into heaven?It is not his fault he did not know God - he had no one to teach him of God and no way of finding out.

Allah is the most merciful, those who are savages and in the state that u said, their destiny is left to God, and as he said in Surat Al-esra':


Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem:


15. Whoever goes right, then he goes right only for the benefit of his ownself. And whoever goes astray, then he goes astray to his own loss. No one laden with burdens can bear another's burden. And We never punish until We have sent a Messenger (to give warning).



so u c no punishment until a messenger is sent, and here is the tafseer (i hope u all know what is tafseer now after sister Muslimah defined fully )


http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=17&tid=28664


read the last paragraph, aya 15, then go next for second page.


But I would like to stress on something here Josh, that we cannot say about any1 who will enter heaven or hell except Allah the Al-mighty, because we never know what is in the future and we do not know what is in the heart of people, only God knows, so I cannot addres any1 right now who does not beleive in Allah or the prophet as kafir, because he might in the future be a muslim who is maybe even better than any born muslim. I hope that u will find ur answers, and by will of Allah all ur confusion will disappear.