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SO MOTHER TERESA IS GOING TO HEAVEN?

Can Mother Teresa, a non-muslim, go to heaven by Hussain Nadim (Read it before this one) made me

think Why cant she go to Heaven? I too, was of the view that yes, she cannot go to heaven because she

was a non-muslim; but not anymore! But one thing important. I AM NO ONE TO DECIDE WHO GOES TO

HEAVEN AND WHO TO HELL. THIS POWER AND ALL POWERS REST WITH ALLAH ALMIGHTY.

So? Letsget rolling then But one thing you need to keep in mind is that this is a special case. Special

provisions shall be made in this case. So what special case and special provisions? Mother Teresa was

not a woman who enjoyed worldly pleasures and its glittersshe lived for and lived with the pain of

human suffering.

Allah in Surah Hud, verse 15 & 16, states that: Those who desire the life of the Present and its glitter to

them We shall pay (the price of) their deeds therein without diminution. (15) They are those for

whom there is nothing in the Hereafter but the Fire: vain are the designs they frame therein, and of

no effect are the deeds that they do!

So Allah talks about those who desire the life of present-in no way talks about non-believers.

But what is meant by life of present then? Yes, those who have deviated from His teachings to enjoy in

the transient world through different forms of delights, pleasures etclet me not mention them! These

are the people who desire the life of present and its glitters not those who tirelessly work for the sake of

humanity, for helping the poor and needy, orphans. Those who work for humanity give up the worldlyglitters. They give up the worldly desires

So let me make it straight. Those who desire life of glitters.are rewarded on earth ofthe good deeds

they do and ultimately rest in hell. Period. In no way those non-believers who do good deeds all their life

are going to hell. Its not referred to in this ayat to which all of Muslims keeps referring too.

So now why do we refer to this that non-muslims will be rewarded for their good deeds on earth? Its

because of a little confusion. So what confusion?

Non-believers are not referred to in this verse. Yes in tafseers, non-believers (Christians and Jews ) are

mentioned but they are referred to as Munafiqs- those who used to pray, fast, used to pay zakat but for

only showing offetc.referred to as Munafiqen-i-Makah, or Munafiqeen-i-Medina in Islam. These

munafiqs had only one objective; to destroy Islam through their own sabotaged acts. Those munafiqs

who might have had done any good work in their life would be rewarded on earth. The tafseers by

almost all Islamic scholars do refer to these non-believers but in no way refer to the entire race, class of

non-believers, non-muslims.

Yes time and again it has been mentioned in Quran that non-believers (referred as Kufar) will be sent to

hell but what about those non-believers who sacrificed all worldly glitters and lived for uplift of

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HumanityWill sending them to hell bejustice? Islam is a practical religion. This is what I have learnt in

my school, college, university. So sending Mother Teresa to hell would not be against all norms of

practicality.