We all want to enter Paradise and live eternal life in there, the Qur’an gives us 4 (four) clues on how one can become citizens of the eternal Garden in the Kingdom of heaven:
- Be charitable in bad or good time
- Restrain your anger to other people
- Quick to pardon other people
- Quick to repent to God when sinning
133And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous 134Who spend [in the cause of Allah ] during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people – and Allah loves the doers of good; 135And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins – and who can forgive sins except Allah ? – and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know. 136Those – their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow [in Paradise], wherein they will abide eternally; and excellent is the reward of the [righteous] workers.
May we all be among those who will enter the Paradise. Amen
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“Be charitable in bad or good time
Restrain your anger to other people
Quick to pardon other people”
I reply:
So Muslims must be charitable to non-muslims as well? Or are they excluded? Please clarify. What does being charitable involve?
When you say “other people”, as in “restrain you anger” and “quick to pardon” do you mean non-muslims as well? Do you mean all people of all beliefs?
“Quick to repent to God when sinning”
How does a muslim repent? What does a muslim do when he repents and how does he do it? Can you describe and define the actions involved in it please?
Thanks.
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‘So Muslims must be charitable to non-muslims as well?’ Of course. That is what the Quran says.
‘How does a muslim repent?’ the same way a Jew or a Christian does.
He recognise his sin, feels contrition and remorse, and by the grace of God repents. Metanoia. But there is a big difference: a Muslim approaches God directly, he does not need to go through an intermediary as a Christian does.
Jesus, a muslim prophet, explains it beautifully in the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15.
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With the name of Allah the Gracious the Merciful
//So Muslims must be charitable to non-muslims as well? Or are they excluded? Please clarify.//
Madmana,
Absolutely. Neither in this verse nor anywhere else in holy Qur’an is commanded that charitable is only for Muslims nor that non muslims excluded.
Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
No one has true and complete faith until he loves for all people what he loves for himself of goodness. This general good will for all humanity is an essential component of sincere faith, essential for admittance in the Paradise.
Ibn Taymiyyah concisely elaborate more on what the righteous believers must do in order to attain salvation, to get the key of the gates of Paradise.
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excellent comments Eric!
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