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[quote]bismillah-hir-rahman-nir-raheem

Walaikum salaam wa rahmatullah.

I used to have this question also. For a long time what would happen to the likes of mother teresa and other people who were not Muslim but devoted their whole lives for humanity and good causes. Are they going to hell?

Then when I realized the answer to this, I got some satisfaction. The answer is that only Allah subhaana-o-taala has the right to judge who is going to paradise and who is going to hell. It is none of our business, and we should only pay attention to our deeds in this life and seek Allah's repentance always for our sins. We should also try to remind others of this.

No one has any justification to brand someone as going to hell or paradise. The prophets may have said so because they had a communication channel with Allah. But we, as mere mortals, do not know what is the intention of another human and what he or she is thinking and why he or she is doing something. Therefore we should not judge others, leave it to Allah.

All though it is known to us that those who commit shirk will never go to Paradise. However we should still refrain from thinking about who is going to paradise and who is going to hell, because we still do not know what lies hidden in the hearts. A person might look like a mushrik but from inside he might be a believer in monotheism, and a person might look like a Muslim but inside he may be a mushrik. We never know.

You might have heard of this story where there were two men. One was humble slave of Allah who worshipped much. The other one was not religious, infact a sinful person. The good man used to remind the bad man to mend his ways. One day the bad man did something so wrong, the good man got angry and rebuked him severly, saying that he would never go to paradise (or that he would go to hell). Then on Judgement day, Allah asked the good man who gave him the authority to condemn someone to hell? And the good man was thrown into hell and the bad man was sent to paradise.

Therefore we should not even think about juding someone like that, lest the tables are turned, and Allah decided to punish us for saying something of which we have no authority and only Allah has a prerogative.[/quote]

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