My name is Sultan Ahmed Aldori. I’m 19 years of age, male, descend from the Middle East. I have lovely parents, a doctor/hero/salivator father figure, and a teacher/leader/motivator mother figure. For nineteen years, they have never made me starve, freeze nor fear. Both are educated and talented in their own ways and they collaborated hugely in raising me to become who I am today. Additionally, they hold a high status amongst their loved ones, not only due to their natural intellect and well-earned academic degrees, but also because of their ability to love and help people in need. For all it is worth, they are not perfect, in resemblance to our human brothers and sisters, and that fact alone makes them beautiful, just like every other human being is. Their ability to recognise their own flaws and let their perks out-good them makes them perfectly imperfect.

Unfortunately, they’re likely to go to hell.

Now, that sentence may have made anyone who’s reading this shocked. How could this allegedly perfectly imperfect, beautiful couple’s son make such a bizarre statement? There must be an explanation for it. Maybe they have committed major sins, hurt others in ways that are unforgivable. Maybe they backstab their peers and deceive them with fake kindness. It could also be that they have bad traits that no good deed can contradict, but that would be unlikely as the author mentioned how his parents do more good than evil. After all, going to Hell is the height of harsh punishments and exclusively the truly evil deserve it.

No, no and no. To my knowledge, my birth giver and her husband haven’t been in a fight with anyone for years. They haven’t caused intended harm against a sibling in humanity for as long as I remember. In actuality, the opposite is true - just a couple of weeks ago, they helped people in need and my father cured a soul at his job. My mother has been an unsung hero whose contributes to our household orchestra the growing of an adorable four years old, the same way they have supervised the upbringing of me and my 16 years old brother into two literate, relatively successful young men.

So, why are they going to Hell?

It’s quite simple. My father has never beaten me for missing a prayer. My mother doesn’t wear a headscarf. Dad doesn’t pray nor does he promote the teachings of Islam to the extent where it suffocates anyone, especially his three sons. Mum lives her life normally but none of her good deeds are accepted unless she covers herself from top to bottom. Dad seems always interested in discussing scientific, religious and social manners with his family without having a taboo nor a religious barrier set up. We have never, God forbid, been taught to wage war against other religious groups nor defend our prophet whom has deceased 1400 years ago.

In short, a lifestyle which has ensured us comfort and happiness, is regarded as blasphemous and hellbound, according to men who debunk the theory of evolution, believe that camel piss is healthy and that the earth is flat.

“Free choice” is best embodied in a philosophy that deems those whom dare to criticise it with death and eternal torment. “Peace” is accompanied with a dozen of hateful verses in the Quran against non-believers and angry men threatening to fight all whom think differently till death do apart. “Gender equality” is demonstrated with texts on woman hitting etiquette being recited in a woman-less womens’ conference.

All is told under the universal belief of a merciful God that will burn you forever if you don’t believe in him, as life is a test for our faith. A highly unfair test where Muslims are automatically privileged to enter heavens as long as they recite the Shahada, no matter how much evil they have caused during their lifetime, while Buddhist monks, whom meditate and stray away from the good in life, suffer eternally for failing a test they did not sign up for. A test that puts us all through all kind of horrifics. A test that rightfully leaves man with reasonable doubt for the divine. A test of Love which if results in love not being returned, severe punishments follow.

How fair, especially for a God known as the Just.