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Buddhism's Erroneous Beliefs

Someone who submits to God, conforming his life to the true

guide He has sent down and to the teachings of the Prophet (may
God bless him and grant him peace), believes with all his heart that
on the Last Day, he will account for all for his deeds—and will receive
the reward in eternal Paradise or endless Hell. God has revealed this

to humanity in the books He has sent down and the prophets He has
chosen. But Buddhism is a man-made doctrine, built through hearsay
on the foundation of a philosophy propounded by one single man.
Using human reasoning to change what has come from God is a
serious error. Those who get their heads full of half-baked ideas about
the Buddhist way and, in their desire to imitate their favorite pop mu-

sicians or film stars, start to follow Buddhism as a fad, should con-
sider this and free themselves from their mistake.
In the Qur'an, God reveals the state of those who say there in no
afterlife:

As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the here-
after, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid ex-
cept for what they did? (Qur'an, 7: 147)
But as for those who did not believe and denied Our Signs and
meeting in the hereafter, they will be summoned to the punish-
ment (Qur'an, 30: 16).

The "repayment" and "punishment" mentioned in these verses
will begin at the moment of death. Those who realize what an error
they had been living during their earthly lives will feel unrepentable
sorrow:

If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and
saying, "Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not
deny the Signs of our Lord and we would be among the believ-
ers." (Qur'an, 6: 27)

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