Sorry I could not log in earlier to reply...
Thank you for the replies... they help... I got way more answers than the questions I had
The main reason I asked this question was that I started to dislike some people... I observed their actions, their thinking and was trying to figure out the root cause for them to be that way
I have seen people who pray five times a day, follow the 5 pillars of Islam...
when they see someone asking for help, they dont... when they see a beggar, they ignore him,
they drive a car which's $value can feed 200,000 people in a country where people die of hunger, they live in a house worth much more than that car... again in the same country children die due to lack of medical care...it just seems hypocritical to me...Its not that they are not aware, they have eyes..they also think that they are better as they are more powerful... they can see... they just follow the parts of Islam that promises rewards on the day of judgement...
On the other side I know people who are very very the opposite selfish, people who will not sleep if someone they know is in hunger or not well...People who would sacrifice their meal for yours...but many of them are not religious
It makes sense that people will enter Jannat from Allah's will, and not just the weighing of good deeds.... its just that ive been told over and over again that on the day of judgement, your good and bad deeds will be weighed and if the good are more you go to heaven... I was never told that your character will count
SOURCE of observation: I know some extremely wealthy muslim families in a very poor country.... and some normal/poor people in very rich countries
@Aapa
Yes, that makes sense... I myself do not have an issue but I see other people who pray a lot but do not seem like they want to please Allah that much... they dont have a good character
@ErshadAhamed
My bad for the UPPERCASE LETTERS, it was not anger... I was trying to emphasize those few lines and I could not figure out how to make it stand out
It make's sense that the selfish people I see who seem religious are not true muslims.
About your saying on the affect of muslims saying :salam2: to each other... I think in the past Arabic was well understood as when you said that, you were saying it yourself and were not repeating a phrase that you memorized... Now i see some people saying it as it is their only substitute for saying "Hi"... as it will seem bad if they dont say it..
@strive-may-i
I understand your point...what I meant to ask, I can ask in the following context:
(very often) I have heard of quote of how much good deeds you get for praying, about praying in the last 10 days of ramadan, about the magnitude of good deeds for praying 5 times a day and all that... It is much more rare to hear about the good deeds received for helping others in any of the ways possible... I have not but not very often...
Assuming that other muslims also hear what I hear from other people... most people emphasise their energy way way more towards the worship deeds that they have been given the return quotes for and not enough on actions that would help others that they do not have quotes for...
Is it just a motivation?? or also a way to see how people are?? If you observe people, you'll see that religious people who do not weigh good deeds are nicer to other people that they do not know...they do more charity work, they usually care about themselves less and more about others
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I have a question relating to this... on the day of judgement... what will happen to Martin Luther King?? he saved lives, got a lot of people their rights... the kind of person who could rest if he saw people suffering
He was not muslim...In term's of his judgement...would it be better than of a person (physically a worshipping muslim) who caused chaos but prayed 5 times a day?? that is what I mean to ask... weighing good deeds by numbers, the second person would be ahead
