(March 11, 2016 at 10:52 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: MK, do you guys believe in some form of Purgatory?
I'm not sure if it's equal to Christianity, but for some it will be a rewarding life in the start (the period in the barzakh before day of judgement), others it will be a severe test, which they must endure punishment but have some reward along with that, and others their dark deeds will overwhelm them and they will have a very narrow life before the day of judgement after they die.
On the day of judgement, intercession will be accepted for some and they will be saved while for others it will not avail them any intercession of any intercessor.
There is a verse that states that hell (which is after that) will remain except until God wishes otherwise, and heaven will remain until God wishes otherwise. It seems both hell and paradise are both stages. Paradise perhaps is not an end either. We being created for worship of God might transcend all it's pleasure one day perhaps (I believe this). Heaven is a reward to make us something greater and is a means I believe.
Hell is also a way to purify souls. It's the last resort.
Everything is created for his mercy at the end of it all.
Anyways I don't know majority or official view of Islam nor represent the Quran or Islam.
