Saad
01-12-2010, 08:00 AM
The People of Al-A’raf (http://deoband.org/2010/12/aqida/qiyamah-and-the-hereafter/the-people-of-al-araf/)
Companions of the A'raf [a boundary between Hell and Paradise] are of various types. Some of them are as follows: [1] People whom the message of Islam did not reach in the first place, such as residents of mountain tops who have not associated anyone with their Lord nor rejected [His existence] but they have also not believed in Him. They are like animals which do not turn to God, neither in negation nor confirmation. They pay attention to the things of their interest only.Or it is such that they received the message of Islam but they did not derive benefit from it on account of their ignorance, such as those people who did not understood the language of Islam nor did they grasp its argument.Or they were brought up heedless towards such deep thinking. The extent of their knowledge was that Muslims are people whose turbans are of a particular type and whose shirts are of a particular sort and who eat certain things and hold certain others as forbidden.
Read the entire article... (http://deoband.org/2010/12/aqida/qiyamah-and-the-hereafter/the-people-of-al-araf/)
Companions of the A'raf [a boundary between Hell and Paradise] are of various types. Some of them are as follows: [1] People whom the message of Islam did not reach in the first place, such as residents of mountain tops who have not associated anyone with their Lord nor rejected [His existence] but they have also not believed in Him. They are like animals which do not turn to God, neither in negation nor confirmation. They pay attention to the things of their interest only.Or it is such that they received the message of Islam but they did not derive benefit from it on account of their ignorance, such as those people who did not understood the language of Islam nor did they grasp its argument.Or they were brought up heedless towards such deep thinking. The extent of their knowledge was that Muslims are people whose turbans are of a particular type and whose shirts are of a particular sort and who eat certain things and hold certain others as forbidden.
Read the entire article... (http://deoband.org/2010/12/aqida/qiyamah-and-the-hereafter/the-people-of-al-araf/)