Is it authentic that out of every thousand people, one enters Paradise and the rest are driven into the Fire, and is this established in a hadith?
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The questioner : Is it authentic that out of every thousand people, one enters Paradise and the rest are driven into the Fire, and is this established in a hadith?
The Shaykh : This is in the hadith of Gog and Magog. Its meaning came in a long hadith in the two Sahihs, or in one of them.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, this meaning is correct and established. When the matter became great for the Companions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), he reminded them of Gog and Magog, who are the fuel of Hellfire. One of them does not die except that he leaves behind a thousand children after him. By that, the greatest share of Hellfire will be from Gog and Magog. They will be in the end of time, and they have not yet emerged, according to some modern interpretations that spring from the hearts of some people who do not have room for faith in the unseen matters. They want to make religion a rational, digested, intellectual matter, and that is contrary to the first condition of the conditions of faith that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) mentioned in the first verse of Surat al-Baqarah[Al-Baqarah 2:2-3] We believe in everything that came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in an authentic hadith, and other than that.
The Shaykh : This is in the hadith of Gog and Magog. Its meaning came in a long hadith in the two Sahihs, or in one of them.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, this meaning is correct and established. When the matter became great for the Companions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), he reminded them of Gog and Magog, who are the fuel of Hellfire. One of them does not die except that he leaves behind a thousand children after him. By that, the greatest share of Hellfire will be from Gog and Magog. They will be in the end of time, and they have not yet emerged, according to some modern interpretations that spring from the hearts of some people who do not have room for faith in the unseen matters. They want to make religion a rational, digested, intellectual matter, and that is contrary to the first condition of the conditions of faith that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) mentioned in the first verse of Surat al-Baqarah