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Question: Many people do not know the truth being either incapable of finding it out because their powers of understanding are weak, like the mentally deranged or the mentally retarded, or because they are far from the centres of religion and therefore, since they have little contact with the truth, have not heard about the true faith. Are such people unbelievers and will therefore go to hell? Answer: Not at all.
No one will enter the fires of hell except those who have received clear knowledge about Islam, so the mentally deranged and those incapable of finding out the truth will be examined at the resurrection on the day of judgement. Those who pass the test on that day will go to heaven but as to those who fail, their lot will be hell. Question: If man dies does he stop functioning until the day of resurrection? Answer: No, for when man…