Question: What
will happen to children who die at a very small age? Will there be a trial
for them? If not (as I have heard), then would some people be allowed in
Paradise without a trial?
Answer: Accountability
in the Hereafter is based on the cognisance of good and evil. Human beings
who have no appreciation of what is good and what is evil (like for example
small children, mentally retarded or mad people) will of course be excused.
This is a common sense exception. We acknowledge it even
today. Don’t our own courts excuse such people or in some cases treat them
leniently?
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