Belief and the Unseen

Non-Muslims do not go to hell for being non-Muslim. The Quran promises reward to sincere Jews, Christians and others, and Allah's mercy outstrips His wrath.

Hell is not eternal torment in Islam. The Quran ties its duration to Allah's will, and Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim argued that the fire will one day end.

Allah forgives all sins for those who turn to Him. The Quran says "Allah forgives all sins" (39:53), and no sin is too great for sincere repentance (tawba).

The difference between Sunni and Shia Islam began over who should lead after the Prophet. Both share one Quran, one Prophet, and the five pillars.

Allah is the Arabic word for God, the one God of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Arab Christians and Jews also call God Allah.

Why did Allah create us? To know and worship Him, to receive His mercy, and to care for the earth as His stewards. What the Quran and early scholars say.

What are jinn? A creation of Allah made from smokeless fire, hidden from sight, with free will like ours. What the Quran says, and why not to fear them.

Allah loves His creation. He is al-Wadud, the Loving, whose mercy embraces all things, and He is more merciful to His servants than a mother to her child.

Progressive Islam reads the Quran and Sunnah with justice, mercy, and dignity at the center, and renews Islamic law through ijtihad and the aims of the sharia.

Evolution is compatible with Islam. The Quran describes creation in stages, from water and earth, and Muslim scholars wrote of a ladder of life before Darwin.

What happens after death in Islam: the soul returns to its Lord, rests in the barzakh until the Resurrection, and the believer's grave becomes a place of light.

Allah has no gender. Nothing is like Him (42:11); the pronoun "He" follows Arabic grammar, and Allah's name al-Raḥmān is drawn from the word for womb.

The six articles of faith in Islam: belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and divine decree, with ihsan at their heart.

Sufism (tasawwuf) is the inner path of Islam: worshipping Allah as if you see Him. Rabiʿa, al-Junayd, al-Ghazali, Rumi and Ibn ʿArabi made it a path of love.

Will Muslims go to hell for sins? Every sin besides shirk lies within Allah's forgiveness (4:48), and no believer remains in the fire. Hope is the rule.

Shirk is associating partners with Allah: worshipping anything beside Him, or giving wealth, power, or ego the place of God. Allah forgives all who turn back.

Questioning Islam is permitted and even praised: Abraham asked Allah to show him, and the Prophet called the believers' fear of their own doubts clear faith.

LGBTQ-friendly and inclusive mosques in Berlin, Toronto, London, Copenhagen and Berkeley welcome women imams and LGBTQ Muslims, as the Prophet's mosque did.

What is Jannah like? Gardens and rivers, peace without fatigue or grief, families reunited, joys no eye has seen, and the greatest gift: seeing Allah.

Tawhid is the oneness of Allah, the heart of Islam: one Creator, worshipped alone, whose oneness frees people from every idol and makes all humans equal.

The evil eye is real in Islam: the Prophet said so. His remedy was calm: bless what you admire, recite al-Falaq and al-Nas, trust Allah, and accuse no one.

The prophets in Islam: the Quran names 25, from Adam to Muhammad, and says a messenger came to every nation. Muslims believe in all of them without distinction.

On the Day of Judgment in Islam, all are raised, deeds are weighed on scales of justice, every wronged soul gets its due, and Allah's mercy has the last word.

Islam teaches qadar, Allah's knowledge and decree of all things, together with real human choice: "whoever wills, let them believe" (18:29).

The Quran never promises martyrs 72 virgins. The number comes from one hadith; the Quran speaks of pure spouses for all believers, women and men alike.

Muslims believe in angels as an article of faith: beings of light who bring revelation, guard and record each person, and pray for the people of the earth.

Believing that zodiac signs or stars shape your fate is haram, since only Allah knows the unseen. Astronomy is praised; horoscopes are best left alone.

Most scholars reject the Ahmadi view of prophethood, but the Sunnah warns against takfir of those who pray toward the qibla. Persecuting Ahmadis is haram.

Muslims can meditate and do yoga: reflection (tafakkur) and watchfulness (muraqaba) are Islamic practices, and yoga practiced as exercise is halal.

Muslims do not call Allah Father, since the Quran says He neither begets nor is begotten. His love, the Prophet taught, exceeds a mother's for her child.