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The Age of Responsibility
Anyone who dies before this age goes to Heaven
The Age-Old Question
โ Questions That Have Puzzled Researchers
What is the age of responsibility?
If a child dies at the age of 12, without even hearing about God, does this child go to Heaven or Hell?
What if the child is 15 years old, or 21, or 25?
At what age will the human being be held responsible for his or her beliefs?
This question has puzzled researchers of all religions for a long time.
The Quranic Answer
"We enjoined the human being to honor his parents. His mother bore him arduously, gave birth to him arduously, and took intimate care of him for thirty months. When he reaches maturity, and reaches the age of forty, he should say, 'My Lord, direct me to appreciate the blessings You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do the righteous works that please You...'"
The Quran sets the age of responsibility at 40.
Anyone who dies before this age goes to Heaven.
Two Levels of Heaven
โจ Destination Based on Belief
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High Heaven
For those who believed in God and benefitted from belief by nourishing and developing the soul.
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Lower Heaven
For those who did not believe or benefit from belief, but died before the age of 40.
The Common Objection
Your first reaction to this piece of information is objection:
"What if the person was really bad, evil, and an atheist, will he go to Heaven if he died before the age of 40?"
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God's Mercy vs. Human Tendency
โ Human Tendency
"Put them all in Hell"
This is because humans are mean.
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God's Way
The Most Merciful
God is full of mercy and compassion.
The Simple Answer
People who objected strongly to this Divine mercy cannot come up with a cut-off age of responsibility. They ask questions like, "What if the person was really wicked?"
Q:
"What if the person was really wicked?"
A:
"Does God know that this person was wicked?"
Q:
"Yes."
A:
"Does God know that this person does not deserve to go to Heaven?"
Q:
"Yes."
A:
"Therefore, this person will not die before the age of 40."
As simple as that.
God is the only one who terminates our lives on this earth. He knows exactly who deserves to go to Heaven and who deserves to go to Hell.
A Confirming Sign: The Ted Bundy Case
๐ Case Study: Theodore Robert Bundy
Early in 1989, a man by the name of Theodore Robert Bundy was executed for killing a number of women. The whole nation agreed that he was one of the most vicious criminals in history. So much so that his execution was one of the rare occasions where the opponents of capital punishment did not protest. On the contrary, many people actually celebrated his execution.
Theodore Robert Bundy
Years After Conviction
11
Numerous journalists, editorials, and politicians lamented the fact that justice took eleven years to execute Ted Bundy. They stated that Bundy should have been executed within a maximum of six years after his conviction.
According to the Quran, this would have been the greatest favor anyone could have done to Bundy.
He was 42 years old when executed. Had he been executed five years earlier, at the age of 37, he would have gone straight to Heaven, and he did not deserve that.
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Signs from God
As it turns out, Bundy was one of the signs God has given us to confirm that anyone who dies before 40 goes to Heaven.
- Bundy's name, Theodore Robert Bundy, consists of 19 letters
- He confessed to killing 19 women just one day before his execution
- There were many other signs from God
Other Notable Examples
๐๏ธ Assassinated Just Before Turning 40
Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassinated just a couple of months before his 40th birthday
Malcolm X
Assassinated just a couple of months before his 40th birthday
A Message from God's Messenger
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Delivering this important piece of information is one of the responsibilities given to me as God's Messenger of the Covenant.
It is not my personal opinion.
Summary
The Quran establishes 40 as the age of responsibility. Anyone who dies before this age goes to Heaven โ to the High Heaven if they believed and nourished their soul, or to the Lower Heaven otherwise. God, in His infinite wisdom, knows exactly who deserves what and controls the timing of every death. This demonstrates both God's mercy and His perfect justice.
GOD BE GLORIFIED
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