the prophet muhammad (saas) - Prophet Muhammad (SAW) for All

People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: "Only Allah has knowledge of it. What will make you
understand? It may be that the Last Hour is very near." (Surat al-Ahzab: 63)
Say: "I do not know whether what you are promised is close or whether my Lord will appoint a
longer time before it." (Surat al-Jinn: 25)
If they turn their backs, then say: "I have informed all of you equally and I do not know if what you
have been promised is near or far." (Surat al-Anbiya': 109)
He communicated that some people will remain in Hell for ever
One very common superstition in ignorant societies is that people will remain in Hell for a given length
of time and then leave it. However, Allah has made it known that some people will remain in Hell for ever. In
accordance with Allah's command, the Prophet (saas) told those who believed that one will only remain in
Hell for a given period that some people will stay there permanently:
They say, "The Fire will only touch us for a number of days." Say, "Have you made a contract with
Allah—then Allah will not break His contract—or are you rather saying about Allah what you do not
know?" No indeed! Those who accumulate bad actions and are surrounded by their mistakes, such
people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever; whereas those who believe
and do right actions, such people are the Companions of the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(Surat al-Baqara: 80-82)
The Prophet (saas) also had this to say about life in Heaven and Hell:
"When the inmates of Paradise would go to Paradise and the inmates of Hell would go to Hell, death
would be called and it would be placed between the Paradise and the Hell and then slaughtered and then
the announcer would announce: inmates of Paradise, no death; Inmates of Hell-Fire, no death. And it would
increase the delight of the inmates of Paradise and it would increase the grief of the inmates of Hell-
Fire."46
He called on us to remember Allah by His most beautiful names
As we have seen earlier, the Prophet (saas) would call on Allah by His most beautiful names when
communicating or explaining anything and when praying. The Prophet (saas) was told to invite people to do
the same:
Say: "Call on Allah or call on the All-Merciful, whichever you call upon, the Most Beautiful Names
are His." Do not be too loud in your prayer [salat] or too quiet in it, but try to find a way between the
two. And say: "Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has no partner in His Kingdom and Who
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