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Can Non-Muslims Go to Jannah?

12 November, 2024
Q We pray everyone we care about and love is amongst the people of Jannah, including ourselves. Is there any way a non-Muslim can enter Jannah? Is there any exception in this matter?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.


In this fatwa:

  1. There is one path that leads to Jannah; that is the path of Islam. However, people on different roads might be forgiven individually if they haven’t heard of the message of Islam
  2. Allah the Almighty is the Most Merciful and He might take into account the individual circumstances of some people and forgive them because they tried, they sought out and they never heard of Islam and they were genuinely good people. So we speak in generalities and not specifics.

Sheikh Yasir Qadhi​ answers your question in the following video:

Almighty Allah knows best.

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Source: FaithIQ

About Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Yasir Qadhi was born in Houston, Texas and completed his primary and secondary education in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah. After completing a diploma in Arabic, he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences. Thereafter, he completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah, after which he returned to America and completed his doctorate, in Religious Studies, from Yale University.Currently he is the Dean of al-Maghrib Institute, the Resident Scholar of the Memphis Islamic Center, and a professor at Rhodes College, in Memphis, TN.