The Two Roads - Heaven and Hell

foolishly thrown himself into All\h’s I curse, into a destructive limbo,
far away from the mercy and love of All\h I. This is what we all have
been warned against and is something that the avoiding of must be a
vital goal for everybody.
In the same *ad|th, Nab| Mu#ammad r tells us of three things, which
if adopted, prevent a person from being included amongst those
drowning in All\h’s I curse: The first is All\h’s I remembrance and
those things relating to it. If a person out of love and adoration for All\h
I spends time in His remembrance, either by pondering over his gifts
given to us, or by use of the tongue, or by means of just the heart,
beholding His sacred name, one is likely to obtain the mercy of the
Merciful and proximity and closeness to Him.
The second and third people mentioned in the *ad|th, (the possessor
of religious knowledge who is a teacher of it and the student in search
of religious knowledge respectively) have been given the glad tidings of
being close to All\h I, of being engulfed in his love and mercy. A
person should try and spend as much time as possible in those things
regarding which closeness to All\h I and His love have been
promised.
If one thinks that All\h I enjoys destroying His servants, then one has
unjustly overlooked All\h’s I qualities of being the Merciful and the
Compassionate.
We have heard of the incident of N[# u that for 950 years he tried to
propagate the truth to his people.
N[# u said: ’O my people! Indeed I am to you a Warner.’ N[#
But few accepted his call. He raised his hands and supplicated to All\h:
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