Heaven

Heaven, where is it? How do we get there?

That was the heading of a program I was watching on mbc4 for the American prominent anchor Barbra Walters, I was very excited watching it, since I like those kinds of shows I was concentrating and enjoying.  She was discussing the concept of heaven in different religions, and what people believe and think.

She has interviewed different personalities, for instance Richard gere, Tibetan Buddhists, Cardinals, Muslim leaders, evangelicals, would-be suicide bomber, atheists and people who felt they had died and gone to heaven.

There is no doubt that all of us had thought of heaven at some point, and we all wish to be there. Moreover, according to some religions, its followers will be saved and the non-believers will go to hell. However, the concept of heaven and life is different    from a religion to another.

 
According to Christianity heaven is being with the lord in his kingdom, however to Muslims heaven is enjoying the forbidden pleasures that were on earth, in addition to practicing  everything that was on earth, but no wars or killing” There r other things concerning heaven in Islam, but I don’t want to discuss them in this piece of writing”.
 

 The Buddhists do not believe in heaven; however they believe that life is the road to nirvana. Walters interviewed Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people; he is really a very nice, humble and funny man. She asked him if he was a God, he laughed and said of course not.

The show was interesting, until she had interviewed the would-be suicide bomber about heaven. I still don’t get it why would she interview a suicide bomber about heaven….she just asked some non-sense questions about heaven including the 70-72 women God promises to give to men in heaven” 7or 3en”!!! I was really pissed off…. What about jihad? He added I wanted to kill Jews…..what this has to do with heaven….Just showing how bad Muslims are and cruel….trying to kill the innocent Jews!!

 She didn’t mention any true reason behind why suicide bombers blow themselves up

The picture to audience was that this suicide bomber wanted to go to heaven to marry the “7or 3en”.She even asked him will I go to hell? He said yes because you’re not Muslim. I couldn’t believe how bias she is ….

She had also interviewed an Islamic scholar, I searched for his name “Faisal Abdul Rauf….which I found not very helpful, I can’t recall what he said, but she asked him if she will go to hell. He said he doesn’t know or you can’t say someone in particular is going to hell, only God’s knows. I was expecting things like what a Muslim can do in his life to reach heaven, like praying, fasting…etc.However none of these things were mentioned.

I can’t deny that the show was interesting and helpful to get to know other religions, however Walters was bias when it comes to Islam. I do really believe that there is vicious attack on Islam in the western Media especially the American, since the attack of 11^th September, which I suppose was the scenario for invading Iraq.
 

Finally, heaven to nearly all religions is a place where you are happy with the people u love.
  

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