You say anyone not following Islam will burn in hell for eternity etc etc. Ok. BUT how about these isolated tribes like in the Amazon, they dont know about Islam, is it fair for them to burn in hell? How are they supposed to follow something they dont know exists?
I avoided this thread as there was too much idiocy in it... just an orgy of islamophobes coming together to express their ignorance...
However what Darren Avey posted is a serious question.
No they will not go to hell. But they might. Huh?
God is the most just... and God will judge everyone according to their means. If these people did not hear of Islam and Muhammad, they will be judged upon what they did hear and how they did act upon it.
In Judaism Jews are thought basically Jews go to heaven and everyone else perishes..
In Christianity you have to accept 'Jesus as God' and you are 'saved' and go to heaven and the others go to hell.
In Islam... we are thought that everyone is accountable and responsible for themselves. Our own actions are our own. We are not held accountable for what our ancestors did as Christianity teaches. We are born PURE not with "adam and eve's sin".
We go to heaven by God's mercy first and foremost .. however we have to put the effort into it, by our sincere actions and by correction action. No one's perfect but God, but we have to strive for perfection as God has revealed messengers and Muhammad as the last messenger for all mankind until the day of judgment.
If you however are ignorant, as that tribe, you will be judged according to what you had in front of you. We are thought in islam that everyone is born pure with an inclination towards oneness of God, that we seek out a greater power, but it is our parents that may lead us to idolatry. Everyone will be judged by what they were exposed to. If someone somehow absolutely did not have an exposure to monotheism, God will test them with certain things and see how they respond and chose and they will be judged accordingly.
To add one more thing in the qur'an God states quite clearly that certain jews and christians will go to heaven, but it refers to those who followed their respective messengers and messages at their time. Not those that for example started worshipping Jesus as God as that is contrary to Jesus' own utterances and teachings. These are things that came afterwards... not from Jesus. As God says in the quran Jesus is free of all the conjectures of men.
In essence as a closure to the above. If you have heard of Islam and Muhammad.. it is your responsibility to read and learn about Islam and accept the message. You can decline it but you will be doing yourself disservice when you meet God.
Denying any of the messengers of God is as if denying all of them. Christians accept Jesus, but perverted his message.. but not all christians worship Jesus. I wasn't one of them, but learning more about other religions and christianity led me to islam.
