How To Get Out Of Hell

During my three-month visit to London in the summer of 1996, I gave many talks about these matters on London Turkish Radio live for two hours a day. Meanwhile, I have also tried to give answers to questions from listeners, as far as I know.

Two of the questions were rather interesting. The first question was this:

“Why will most people stay in Hell for ever and will not get out of it to enter for Heaven?”

The second was as follows:

“You all Muslims keep talking about the existence of Allah! Is there anyone in history, who has seen Allah, so that we could believe in?”

Let us first mention the following facts:

After the great crowd known as Judgment Day, the entire human race without exception will find themselves in the environment called as Hell. In the following stages, people of faith (iman) will move past through it and reach to the environment of Heaven. People of denial (who lack iman), however, will abide in the environment of Hell forever. It means that the ability to pass through Hell and reach to Heaven is not a result of a person’s practice or deed, but it is totally related with a matter of “faith” (iman).

The duration of someone's stay in Hell and his spiritual level in Heaven, however, are totally depended on his actions and practices he achieved in the world.

Why should it be depended on one's “faith” to access Heaven? I will try to explain it!

Some cases of paralysis simply stem from psychological reasons. Despite the lack of any pathological symptoms determined physically, a person, who may have conjectured himself paralyzed and unable to walk again, can spend a life of Hell on a wheeled chair. Some people, who may be said “addictive of sickness,” cannot utilize their mind properly due to their faculty of “conjecture” (wahm) overpowering themselves, and cannot execute their capabilities and as such they cannot get out of the Hell that turn their life into an affliction.

As we have discussed widely in our book “REASONING AND BELIEF,” no one can overwhelm the influence of conjecture (distrust) that turns one’s life into hell, through the help of reasoning. The power within human to overwhelm the force of conjecture, which means “assuming there is what there is not and there is not what there is,” is not his faculty of reasoning but is rather his faculty of “believing.” While conjecture easily rules over reasoning and the mechanism of thought, it is always defeated by the power of belief (iman), which exercises direct influence on actions. It is therefore that the people of reasoning have been proposed to understand the Deen with mind and to take further steps with faith.

Man's hell in his worldly life as well as in the next, is just a result of the power of his conjecture overwhelming him. It is only by means of his command of belief (iman) that conjecture can be expelled.

If a person assuming himself paralyzed despite the unavailability of any physical defect, can meet with someone whom he can have faith in, he will walk! A suspicious person's suffering will come to an end when he encounters a person or an information to have faith on.

In the most trivial sense, believing in Allah results in a person's belief that he will receive help from the attributes that belong to Allah, whenever he comes across with a difficulty, and thus he will be rescued from there into peace (salamat). A person holding such a belief will find the power within to rescue himself from the Hell environment, even if his belief was as little as an atom's weight. But, if a person does not hold such a belief and assumes himself restricted with normal physical powers and if he does not understand and neither believe in Allah, he will never be able to get out of Hell as he will suffer the lack of the potential powers that belongs to Allah within himself. Since he does not believe in for himself, no one else will be able to help him there, no matter who the other was; same as a person who assumed himself unable to walk because of his skepticism overpowering his mind.

It means that, the reason of imprisonment in Hell for those who will permanently abide in Hell, is their spending their lifetimes without belief because of their failure in freeing themselves from the power of their conjecture that commands their lives.

Let us come to the answer for the second question.

That listener constructed his logic such as the following:

If something cannot be seen with eye, it simply does not exist.

Considering that the object called as “Allah” is not seen with eye, then it does not exist. As we have never seen Allah even after we opened up the solid matter, there is not Allah and we cannot accept such an existence.

It was not possible to give a detailed answer to this question on air, so I briefly gave an answer with the following question:

“Saying that you cannot see Allah in the physical world, you reach a conclusion that there is not Allah! If the same logical construct that you use is carried on... We are not able to see what is “mind” in a brain even after we open it by surgery. Once we cannot see your mind, should we then result that you are “mindless?”

The line went off!

The basic mistake of that listener is as follows:

“In his world of thought that he constructed on various misinformation, he used to assume the existence of a separate god-out-there and he labeled such a god as “Allah,” as the noun employed by Muslims. Alike many people calling themselves Muslims, he also was unaware of the being denoted by the name “Allah” as explained in the Koran al Karim.

Stated briefly, calling the imagined god he constructed in his mind by the name “Allah” and then arriving at a judgement that there cannot be such an irrationality, he claims the nonexistence of that god. I mean it was his assumed (imagined) god that he denied and not what he had no information about...

I regret to tell that all those who are not Muslims as well as those who consider themselves Muslims and criticize what is denoted by the name “Allah,” do just talk about their imagination of deity they make up in their minds.

What the name “Allah” denotes is, however, free from such primitive description...