My Reaction Towards the Death of Over 700 Muslims During This Year's Pilgrimage

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I just read from Yahoo News that on Thursday, at least 700 Muslim pilgrims died in another mishap of a Haji stampede, saying this was the worst yet in a quarter century.

To describe the mayhem, I would share an excerpt from the source:
As of late Thursday, the Saudi civil defense directorate said the death toll was 719, but that probably would rise as bodies continued to be counted and sent to the morgue. At least 863 people were injured, the directorate said.
An AP journalist saw bodies still lying on the ground more than 10 hours after the crush and ensuing stampede in Mina, a large valley containing 160,000 tents for accommodations about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mecca.
One crowd had just finished a ritual in which pilgrims throw pebbles at three stone columns representing the devil when it ran into another wave of people heading to perform the rite.
Sudanese pilgrim Mohammed Awad, 36, and his 56-year-old father were separated when people began pushing and shoving. Awad said he tried to get out of the crush of bodies for about 30 minutes and eventually climbed over a gate with others. It took him an hour before he could look for his father, who was under at least 10 bodies — but still alive.
"You can't count how many bodies there were. They were stacked high," Awad said.

I hate to say it but those 700 Muslims that died during the mishap are not in Heaven but went to Hell because they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ. Any Muslim can argue like, "What, you are being unfair. How dare you say that they went to Hell. They did all they could to attend the pilgrimage." I am sorry but I am saying that they went to Hell based on God's Word because anybody who does not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that He died for their sins on the cross and rose again the third day, anybody who rejects the Gospel of Jesus Christ is indeed bound for Hell.

It's a sad fact that Muslims though they accept Jesus Christ to be an important prophet, they refuse to accept Him to be the Son of God, the only one who can save them from their sins. Whether you like it or not, Islam has never been about God's grace, it's always about working for your salvation like praying five times a day, pilgrimages, abstaining from pork and other meats forbidden in the Koran, fasting and the like in hopes to attain Allah's forgiveness. To claim that Allah is the God of creation is blasphemy against the God of the Bible. If Allah were God, nobody will enter Heaven because no one in their own righteousness can make it.

Looking at the Scriptures, it's clear that the natural man is not basically good. Isaiah 64:6 says that the righteousness of man is but filthy rags. When it comes to God's standards of holiness, even the slightest sin kicks you out of Heaven as James 2:10 says that if you break even one of God's rules, you have violated the entire Law of God. Romans 3:10-19 declares the total depravity of man as this, we are all lawbreakers and all must be silent before God. For all who survive the mishap in Saudi this year, I hope that God can mightily use this incident to warn Muslims that they are on their way to perdition.