Monday, October 09, 2006

Off topic

Here is a thought- will people be good when they go to heaven?

We are told that only those good among us will get to heaven. But only a few among those are good for the sake of being good. Majority are good only because they dont want to burn in hell for eternity. So once such 'good' people go to heaven and start doing whatever they wish because they can, will there be any order? Without the threat of the hell fire, is there any point of codes of moral conduct? Won't there be absolute chaos and anarchy?

Perhaps it will be safe to assume that no such thing would happen. But why not? As human beings we are the worst creatures to govern. Even Adam and Eve were cast out form heaven because they disobeyeyed God. Would we not be yeilding to temptations that we had resisted on earth? Would we not be feeling sooo free as to start doing each and every naughty little thing we were afraid to do?

Maybe when we go to heaven such temptations are removed from us so that we would be virtuous. We would all be wearing white robes and walking around like wise men. But once parts of my personality or characters that define me in toto are removed, does it not cease to be me? Would I , mutatis mutandis, be still me? Wont we all be akin to zombies?

1 comment:

Livehack said...

Faisal,im not qualified to preach or advise but i believe the asnwers to the questions are clearly explained in the Quran and Hadith.

If you really want to know, pls read up.