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882 Can you clarify what will happen to non-Muslims on the day of Kiyamat?

I have several friends who are devout followers of other religions, for instance, Sikh, Hindu etc. They are good and honest people, but I find it unfair that they may be subject to the fire of Hell. Can you clarify what will happen to them? Will Allah have any mercy?

Surely if they are content with their faith, why would they consider looking into other religions; much like how a Muslim would not look to consider any other faith.
Allah is all-Wise, all Powerful and Able upon all things. He is not governed by any principles and protocols. Like it is mentioned in a Hadith Qudsi, if everyone in the world believed in Him, His kingdom would not changed, and if everyone in the world disbelieved, His kingdom would not change.

All humans –Muslim or infidels- will be subject to the same procedure of accounts on the Day of Judgement. If a person has done more good deeds than bad, then he will enter Paradise, and if he has done more bad deeds than good, then he will enter Hell. Most importantly, the condition for the acceptance of good deeds is Imaan, or faith. Without this essential prerequisite, a person’s good deeds count for nothing.
Note that whenever Allah refers to how good deeds lead to success in the Holy Quran, He also precedes this with the condition of Imaan.

For instance, Verily those who believe and perform good actions, for them is the gardens of Firdaus…(18; 107)

Those who believe and perform good actions, we will enter them into gardens…(4: 122)

Some scholars state that devout non-Muslims are given a ‘reward’ of some form in this world; respect, money, dignity and so on. This is in light of the verse,
‘Whoever seeks the cultivation of the hereafter, we shall increase in his cultivation. And whoever seeks the cultivation of the world, we shall give it to him and he shall have no share in the hereafter.’ (Shura; 20)

In other words, the share of the non-Muslims is purely limited to this world.

(Answered by: Alims at Islamic Centre, Leicester, UK.)
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