3 - The testimony that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is God’s Messenger

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ  قَالَ: «كُلُّ أُمَّتِي يَدْخُلُونَ الجَنَّةَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَبَى»، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، وَمَنْ يَأْبَى؟ قَالَ: «مَنْ أَطَاعَنِي دَخَلَ الجَنَّةَ، وَمَنْ عَصَانِي فَقَدْ أَبَى» رواه البخاري. 

Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:

  1. All my community shall be admitted into Heaven except those who refuse. 2. People asked: ‘Messenger of God, who will refuse?’ 3.He said: Whoever obeys me enters Heaven and whoever disobeys me refuses.

Related Quranic Verses

Say:

‘If you love God, follow me; God will love you and forgive you your sins. God is much-forgiving, ever-merciful’.

(3: 31)

He who seeks a religion other than Islam [i.e. self-surrender to God], it will not be accepted from him, and in the life to come he will be among the lost.

(3: 85)

If you obey him, you shall be rightly guided. The Messenger is not bound to do more than clearly deliver his message.

(24: 54)

So let those who would go against His bidding beware, lest some affliction or painful suffering befall them.

(24: 63)

Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it; and whatever he forbids you, abstain from it. Remain God-fearing; for God is severe in retribution.

(59: 7)

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