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Assurance of Salvation Lacking in Islam

He (Allah) will forgive whom he will and he will punish whom he will.

S.2.284; cf. 3.129; 5.18

Because Allah is capricious there is no certain promise or foundation for the sincere Muslim to hold on to.

 

Even Muhammad himself was not certain that he would enter heaven (Hadith Bukhari 5.266): “By Allah, though I am the Apostle of Allah, yet I do not know what Allah will do to me…”

 

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