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Friday, May 6, 2011

His brain-damaged sister died – what will her fate be?

His brain-damaged sister died – what will her fate be?
My sister was born brain damaged meaning that even though she had a physical appearance of a 16 years old, She had the mental age of a 4 year old, She was unable to write nor read.


My sister died about a month ago, and i was wondering whether she would go to Heaven or Hell?


 

Praise be to Allaah.
 

 

and blessings and peace be
upon the Messenger of Allaah. 

We ask Allaah to have mercy
on her, and to join you with her in the Gardens of Delight (Paradise). 

The Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Every child is born in state of
fitrah (the natural disposition of man), then his parents make him a Jew or
a Christian or a Magian.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1296; Muslim, 4803). 

And he said: “The pen is
lifted from three (i.e., their deeds are not recorded): the sleeper until he
awakes, the child until he grows up, and the insane until he regains his
sanity or regains consciousness.” This was narrated by the authors of
Sunan and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Irwa’, no. 297. 

If a child is born lacking mental faculties or brain-damaged,
and his parents are Muslim, then he is Muslim too. Shaykh al-Islam Ibn
Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “The ruling on one who is
insane is like the ruling on a child: if his parents are Muslim then he is
also Muslim. This is according to the consensus of the Muslims. The same
applies if his mother is Muslim, according to the majority of scholars such
as Abu Haneefah, al-Shaafa’i and Ahmad. Similarly, one who become insane
after becoming Muslim is also regarded as a Muslim. An insane person who was
born in a Muslim society is also regarded as being outwardly Muslim, like
his parents or the people of the society, as is also the ruling on children.
The children of the Muslims and their insane will be like their fathers
(i.e., they will be counted as Muslims) on the Day of Resurrection.”

(Majmoo’ al-Fataawa,
10/437) 

Ibn Hazm (may Allaah have
mercy on him) said: “As for the insane who have no mental faculties until
they die, as we have already mentioned, they are born as ‘haneefs’
(monotheists) and believers, and they do not change their faith, so they die
as believers and so they will go to Paradise.” (al-Fasl 4/135). 

So if your sister had no mental faculties or power of
discernment, and she did not understand the meaning of worship or how to do
it, then the pen was lifted from her (and her deeds were not recorded), so
she was still adhering to the fitrah, and we hope that she will enter
Paradise. But we cannot testify that any specific person will go to
Paradise, apart from those whom the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) testified would go there. 

But if she had mental
faculties and could understand things, then she is accountable like everyone
else, and she will be rewarded or punished for whatever she did after she
reached adolesence. If she was fine sometimes and not at others, then she
will be rewarded or punished for whatever she did at the times when her
reason was sound. 

And Allaah knows best.

Islam Q&A
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid



 

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