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Islam: Self, Death and the Afterlife

Judgement, Paradise and Hell

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Recall questions on judgement and shafa'ah, the sin God does not forgive, the Qur'anic descriptions of paradise and hell, literal and symbolic readings and the debate over the eternity of hell.

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Key term

Name the Arabic terms for paradise and for hell.

Key term

Give two features of the Qur’anic descriptions of hell.

Key term

Give the case for reading the descriptions of heaven and hell literally.

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  1. 1

    Name three elements of the judgement described in Islamic sources.

    Model answer

    The book of deeds handed to each person, received in the right hand by the successful, the weighing of deeds in the scales, and the crossing of the bridge over hell.

  2. 2

    Define shafa’ah.

    Model answer

    It is intercession, in which the Prophet and others may plead for sinners, but only with God’s permission.

  3. 3

    Why do Muslims say no one enters paradise by their deeds alone?

    Model answer

    Because it is God’s mercy rather than the bare arithmetic of works that admits a person, as the Prophet taught.

  4. 4

    Which sin does the Qur’an say God does not forgive?

    Model answer

    Dying in a state of unrepented shirk.

  5. 5

    Name the Arabic terms for paradise and for hell.

    Model answer

    Jannah and Jahannam.

  6. 6

    How does 47:15 describe the garden promised to the righteous?

    Model answer

    It speaks of rivers of water that never spoils, of milk whose taste never changes, of wine that is a delight to those who drink it, and of purified honey.

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