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Rewards of true believers in Islam

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  Support IslamQA  Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Virtues of deeds Related topic Is there reward for good deeds in this world apart from reward in the Hereafter?  02-06-2009          Question 12702 Do we get rewarded by allah in this world not only the next.. Meaning allah will reward us in life for doing good deeds and also get more reward in the hereafter.. Answer Praise be to Allah. Yes, Allaah has promised the believer who does righteous deeds reward in this world, as well as the greater reward which awaits him in the Hereafter.  Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):  “Whoever works righteousness — whether male or female — while he (or she) is a true believer (of Islamic Monotheism) verily, to him We will give a good life (in this world with respect, contentment and lawful provision), and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best of what...

Islam and other religions A comparative study

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  Home  »  sharia Islam and Other Religions [ Say: We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the Prophets from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another .] (Aal `Imran 3:84)   As is borne out by this command of God in the  Qur’an , Muslims must believe in all the prophets of God previously sent to humanity. This means that they are not permitted to show any disrespect to any prophet or to the religion he taught to his followers. To a Muslim, religious belief must come out of a person’s free choice, as God has also commanded not to use any kind of coercion in the matter of religion: [Let there be no compulsion in religion, truth stands out clear from error.] ( Al-Baqarah  2:256) It is the conviction of a religion’s adherents, not the compulsion they can impose on others, that establishes its moral force on earth...