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Questionable Teachings of Islam:

One Billion People Deceived

Islam is unique in the sense that the Qur'an teaches two thoughts about predestination.
First, that Allah and an angel pre-plan the entire life of each individual Muslim at birth -
whether they will be a denizen (resident) of paradise or a denizen of hell; and, second,
that only faithful Muslims, through actions of their own good works, are rewarded to spend
eternity in Paradise, including being a resident in one of the seven levels of heaven. As
for Apostate Muslims, Jews, Christians and all other non-Muslims, they will all spend
eternity in the fires of hell, according to Islamic theology.

Here are the accounts of predestination, as taught within Islam:

Allah permits some to believe in Islam and punishes the ones that he prohibits from being
believers:

"Those whom Allah (in His plan) willeth to guide,- He openeth their breast to Islam; those
whom He willeth to leave straying,- He maketh their breast close and constricted, as if
they had to climb up to the skies: thus doth Allah (heap) the penalty on those who refuse
to believe." (Qur'an: 006.125)

"Whom Allah doth guide, -he is on the right path: whom He rejects from His guidance,-
such are the persons who perish." (Qur'an: 007.178)

Here is yet another example where Allah punishes unbelievers:

"And if any believe not in Allah and His Messenger, We have prepared, for those who reject
Allah, a Blazing Fire!" (Qur'an: 048.013)

(Poor souls, they must be the ones that were already "predestined" not to be believers in
the first place.)

Message of hope to Muslims: While Islam teaches that Allah selects who to accept and
who to reject from his guidance, Christianity believes that God invites everyone to become
a believer and receive His Plan of Salvation. It is therefore up to each person to decide
whether to accept or reject God's call:

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)

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