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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Bible and Christianity (an Islamic View) Position of Jesus and Christians in Islam One day, a colleague of mine came to see me and said that, through his friend, he acquainted with a Christian engineer who served in Iraq and he wanted to discuss Islam with him but he, my colleague, could not do so because he was not well informed of Christianity and was afraid of assuming this responsibility as he had not studied relevant books and references sufficiently to be able to discharge his responsibility.

A few days later, he brought his friend after the evening prayers, and after a little courtesy talk he asked me whether I believed Islam to be a religion, to which I replied in affirmative. He also asked me whether I also believed that Muhammad was a prophet of God, and whether the religion of Muhammad was better than that of Christianity. I replied in affirmative.

Then he asked, “Do you believe that whosoever does not believe in Islam will be thrown into Hell?” I replied, “Those who do not believe in Islam are of two groups. The first group are those who do not believe in Islam since they have no information about the truth of Islam. This group of people would be tested on the Day of Judgement. If they ‘pass’ the test they would enter Paradise and if not they would go to Hell.

“The second group are those who, having studied and understood the truth of Islam, still do not believe in Islam out of stubbornness and such like. They know that the religion of Islam is a right one, but in spite of this they deny it. Such group of people are obstinate and if they do not feel contrite and repent to Allah the Almighty, then they will be thrown into Hell.” He said, “If it is so, do you think that millions of Christians will fall into Hell?” I replied, “I did not say that.

What I said was that only the obstinate ones will enter hell but those who were ignorant, having no Islamic knowledge would be tested on the Day of Judgment.” He said, “So far I have never heard such a thing from anyone except from you. Contrary to it I have heard from many Muslims that all Christians would fall into fierce Hell.