I'm afraid I got confused reading Arbibi Ashoy's Religious laws not outdated . If my understanding of the terms 'believers' and 'the faithful' is correct - as often projected in Islamic/ Christian religious discourses - then they both refer to followers of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths.

If that be the case, am I also to understand that followers of other religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Taoism and their ilk will not be able to gain entry into heaven?

Then again there is the other issue of the 1.3 billion inhabitants of China. They were born into a communist system just as Arbibi was born into the Islamic faith. And as much as Arbibi believes his faith to be the only salvation for him, the majority of those born in China under the communist system believe that there is no god.

Now, the second and more crucial question is this: Would God - being who he/she is - all knowing, all benevolent, all powerful - truly deny all those 1.3 billion Chinese from China entry into heaven just because they did not subscribe to the idea of religion and his own existence?

I hope to be enlightened by Arbibi or anyone else out there. And kindly do so in a straight, simple, and 'in your face' manner for many readers like me find it difficult to follow the 'could be this/could be that' kind of wishy-washy arguments so often put forward in such discourses.