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Assalam alaikum

The ayah is about Yawm Al-qiyamah=Day of judjment.

I always hear Atheists say:

1. If God is so merciful, why does he allow people to burn in hell forever?

Intention is the Key to Eternal Living in Paradise or Hell-Fire
 Narrated 'Umar bin Al-Khattab:

I heard Allah's Messenger (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) saying, "The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended."
http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/1/1
http://www.missionislam.com/knowledge/intentionkey.htm

If God created humans this way and he created us without proof of his existence, why would he punish people who rejected him?

Slippery slope

His existence & the whole universe existence indicates the certainty that a great creator created the whole universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4E_bT4ecgk
http://defending-islam.com/page123.html

(the question is already answered above)
Their only answer is: we r created by chance, ok !

How is this merciful?

Allah says: “Say: O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [Sûrah al-Zumar: 53]

This verse speaks about those who repent. It tells us that any sin, no matter how major, is expiated by sincere and proper repentance.

There are conditions for repentance to be sincere and proper. The first of these is that the penitent person desists from the sinful act. The second is that he feels deep and genuine regret for having committed the sin. The third is that he resolves in his heart never to return to the sin again. Finally, if the sin caused a transgression against the rights of another person, he needs to do his best to make amends.

When Allah sees this sincere repentance from one of His servants – a servant who truly turns to his Lord in fear and hope – He not only forgives the sin, but replaces those sins for good deeds to the servant’s credit. This is from Allah’s infinite grace and munificence.

Allah says: “Unless he repents, believes, and works righteous deeds, for Allah will change the evil of such persons into good, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful,” [Sûrah al-Furqân: 70]

Allah says this right after mentioning the sins of polytheism, murder, and adultery. However, this blessing is only for one who have faith, whose repentance is sincere, and who strives to work righteous deeds.

Allah’s generosity is so far-reaching, that we are not only forgiven through our specific repentance for each sin that we commit, but we can attain forgiveness simply through our constant appeals Allah to forgive us.

Another way that we attain Allah’s forgiveness is through the performance of good deeds. Allah says: “Establish worship at the two ends of the day and in some watches of the night. Lo! Good deeds annul evil deeds. This is reminder for the mindful.” [Sûrah Hûd: 114]

Some scholars are of the view that his verse is only speaking about the forgiveness of minor sins, and that major sins need specific repentance. They cite the following verse in support of this interpretation:

Allah says “If you shun the most heinous sins which you are forbidden, We will do away with your small sins and admit you to a gate of great honor.” [Sûrah al-Nisâ’: 31]

They also cite a number of hadîth, including the hadîth related by `Uthman that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Any Muslim who offers the prescribed prayer, doing justice to its motions and to the humility that it requires, it will expiate for the sins that preceded it, as long as the person did not commit a major sin.” [Sahîh Muslim]

However, Ibn Taymiyah and a number of other scholars consider the verse “Good deeds annul evil deeds” to be general in meaning. It applies to all sins, major and minor. Even if a person’s good deeds do not expiate for the sin directly, there can be no doubt that those good deeds weigh in the balance of deeds on the Day of Judgment in a person’s favor. Whoever has his good days outweigh his evil deeds on that Day will attain salvation.

Allah says: “The balance that day will be true: those whose scale (of good) will be heavy will prosper, and as for those whose measure (of good deeds) is light, their souls will be in perdition, for that they wrongfully treated Our signs.” [Sûrah al-A`râf: 8-9]

Ibn Mas`ûd said: “People will be take into account on the Day of Judgment. Whoever has a single sin to his account more than his good deeds will enter the Fire. Whoever has a single good deed to his account greater than his sinful deeds will enter Paradise.”

Then Ibn Mas`ûd recited Allah’s words: “…those whose scale (of good) will be heavy, will prosper”.

Then he said: “Indeed, the balance will weigh an atom’s weight one way or another.”

Allah also forgives us our sins through the difficulties that we face in life. When we are stricken with illness or suffer from circumstances, we will earn forgiveness if we bear them patiently seeking Allah’s reward.

Allah forgives our sins on account of the supplications that others make to Allah asking for our forgiveness, including our funeral prayers. We earn forgiveness through the charity we gave in our lives that continue to provide benefit to others after our deaths. We earn forgiveness if we have pious children who beseech Allah on our behalf.

A Muslim’s sins are likewise forgiven through the punishment he may receive in the grave. Those sins are also forgiven by the intercession that the Prophet (peace be upon him) will make on that day, and then by the intercession those who are granted intercession. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “My intercession is for those who committed major sins from among my followers.”

Above and beyond all of this is the mercy of the Most-Merciful Lord who pardons on that Day all sins as He pleases, as long as the person meets Him worshipping Him alone without ascribing to Him any partner.
Read also:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/mercy_of_allah.htm
http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-the-scholar/muslim-creed/muslim-belief/174425.html
http://islam1.org/khutub/Mercy_of_Allah.htm

If God is all knowing/omnipotent, wouldn't he know that most of these disbelievers are in fact innocent and they disbelieve because of their experiences in life and the way their brains have been developed? Why would an all knowing being punish people?

God being All-knowing is irrelevant to your desire to reject the truth !
If God isn't all-knowing, he wouldn't be God anymore, U don't know whether U may accept islam in the future or die in darkness. God only knows.

Salam alaikum

salam alaikum

Where is the alleged errors exactly ? If anti-islamic site deny quran being from God, (how can it be God word, it must has errors), but my genuine question: What is that 'horrible error ' 

How did he know that verse 32:5 is not true, did he help in creating a planet or galaxy before ?

If a person thinks like this, ask God to cure him





Send this to him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7tqLc4JlM

Assalam alaikum

The person u r talking to aims to deceive you and keep telling u he is 'not convinced' when u show him how his points are ridiculous.

He said 'The testicles produce only 5% of the sperm.' So his own statement is clearly in error.
The testicles actually produce only 100% of the sperm cells.

Now back to the ayah:
" He is created from a water gushing forth
 Proceeding from between the back-bone and the ribs"

To prove a scientific error, he has to 'prove' that genital organs or passages actually exist outside the area determined by God, otherwise his claims are to be ignored.

ASSALAMUALYKUM,

 What does Quran mean by the places or setting of the stars.Does it mean SUPERNOVA.If so then how?.Please refer to the following verse 75 of Surah Waqiah

       Sahih International: Then I swear by the setting of the stars,

Pickthall: Nay, I swear by the places of the stars -
 
 Brothers and Sisters please help me to remove my confusions.

wa alaikum assalam

This ayah is an amazing miracle 

Scientists say we see this galaxy as it was millions of years ago, but as for its real location, we can not comprehend because the light it transmits takes millions of years until it reaches us. This means that the real locations of the stars is known only to Allah, the Almighty, and that is why Allah took an oath by them, Allah stated in Glorious Quran AL-WAQIA (THE EVENT, THE INEVITABLE) 56:75, ‘Furthermore I call to witness the setting of the Stars,’ Who has informed Allah Messenger  this truth about the cosmos?

http://kaheel7.com/eng/index.php/picture-a-verse/497-stars-locations

For further amazing miracles, please visit:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/ac20.htm
http://www.elnaggarzr.com/en/index.php

Assalam alaikum

First of all let me congratulate you for becoming muslim despite visiting such sites 

They KNOW that they spread lies, but their intention is to misguide, so yes they do their job well.
Example: I'll keep my lies:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/quran/jochen_admitting_to_be_liar.htm

You are right of course "It is human nature to exaggerate certain things and put your own interpretations into a book. And the Hadiths are not preserved like the Quran"
That's the reason for development of a science to filter austhentic hadeeth as much as we can.

To be a source or authority of Islamic law, a hadith must be from the categories of sahih (authentic) or hasan (good). In order for a hadith to be authentic or good it must meet the following criteria:

1) The chain of narration must be unbroken. In other words, each source must have received the hadith directly from the one whose authority he is relating it all the way back to the Prophet peace be upon him. If there is any missing authority, the chain would be considered broken and unacceptable.

2) Every narrator in the chain must be of acceptable righteousness and character; in other words, each narrator must be morally fit. Impious people are not accepted, for their impiety is a sign that they don’t fear Allah and, hence, they can’t be trusted to take extreme care in narrating the statements of the Prophet peace be upon him. If just one narrator in the chain does not meet these criteria the hadith will have to be rejected.

3) Moral characteristics are not sufficient. Each narrator must be proficient and exact when it comes to narrating hadith. If a person is known to make lots of mistakes when narrating hadith either from his memory or from his writing, his hadith will not be acceptable.

4) Both the chain and the text of the hadith must be such that they don’t contradict what has been narrated through stronger means.

5) Upon inspection of the different ways a hadith is narrated, it must be the case that no mistake or defect is spotted in either the chain or the text of the hadith

If any of these conditions are not met, the hadith will be rejected as weak or very weak depending on the magnitude of the weakness.
Hadith which are graded weak or very weak are not considered authorities in Islamic law.

http://www.kalamullah.com/importance-of-the-sunnah.html

This topic may be confusing at first but with going to your local masjid, asking questions, reading books given in the link, this will be clear, inshhaaAllah.