ras111. but thats what its all about. MEN'S pleasure on earth, and even more in paradise.
The good deeds thing. My "fellow muslims" and i would discuss this at length. (re: good deeds),
zakat, etc). And I argued, WHY do you say doing this or that will give you more points for jannah?
Why cant you just do a good deed because its in your heart to do so, because it gives you pleasure
to ease the suffering of another? WHY does there have to be a mandate that you HAVE to? It
seemed almost incomprihensible to them, a novel thought of doing good deeds JUST BECAUSE
and not for a reward. every single action done by a muslim, in my experience, is to rack up
points for jannah. IF it is true, that the last person in jannah, on the lowest rung, his/her kingdom
will be greater than all the kingdoms of earth, and he will be none the wiser that theres something better,
THEN isnt all these "point-based deeds" selfish in nature? Because I see NOT ONE Surrah that talks about
the blissful fellowship between God and his creation. Rather, he drops by, asks if everyone is happy,
then leaves again.

And the concept of hellfire was around LONNNNNNNNG before anyone
started a "one god" religion, let alone wrote about it.