Road to hell is paved with good intentions... Dedicated to my sweet sister Paarsa Malik... Designed and prepared by Faixy.

3. Road to hell is paved with good
intentions…
•
• By Muhammad Faizan Akhter

4. Dedicated to my
sweet sister “Paarsa
Malik”

5. Department of CS and IT,
Superior University
• Group Members:
• Tahir Ijaz
• Muhammad Faizan Akhter
• Muhammad Usman

6. Outlines
• Definition
• Origin
• Meaning
• Artistic references
• Examples from ISLAM

7. Definition
• The road to hell is paved with good
intentions is a proverb.
• An alternative form is “hell is full of
good meanings, but heaven is full of
good works”.
• A person who may have the intention to
undertake good actions but therefore
fail to take action.

8. Continued
• A good intention is meaningless unless
followed through.
• The road to hell is paved with good
intentions,
• it has different further aspect with
respect to the meanings, but more
favorable and suitable meanings

9. Continued
• are these “if you want to do righteous,
then get ready to face the
circumstances and conspiracies”.

10. Origin
• The saying is thought to have originated
with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who
wrote in 1150.

11. Continued
• That is "L'enfer est plein de bonnes
volontés ou désirs" (hell is full of good
wishes or desires).

12. Continued
• An earlier saying occurs in
Virgil's Aeneid: "facilis descensus
Averno (the descent to hell is easy)".

13. Meaning
• One meaning of the phrase is that
individuals may have the intention to
undertake good actions but
nevertheless fail to take action.
• As such, the saying is an admonishment
that a good intention is meaningless
unless followed through.

14. Continued
• A different interpretation of the saying
is wrong doings or evil actions are often
masked by good intentions, or even that
good intentions, when acted upon, may
have unforeseen bad consequences.

15. Artistic references
• Authors who have used the phrase
include:
• Lord Byron

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• Samuel Johnson

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• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Sir Walter Scott

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• Søren Kierkegaard

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• Karl Marx

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• In the movie, Highway to Hell, the
phrase is taken literally to create one
particular scene.

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• The phrase appears in the song "4
Minutes" by Madonna on her 2008
album Hard Candy.

23. Continued
• The phrase is also used as the title for a
song by Metalcore band In Fear and
Faith.

24. Continued
• A version of the phrase is used in the
song "Road to Hell" by Bruce Dickinson.

25. Examples from ISLAM
• In order to understand this fact we have
to return to our historical background.
Where our Holy Prophet (May Allah's
peace and blessings be upon him) had
good intention to convert the man into
humanity.

26. Continued
• Where our Holy Prophet had intention
to protect the ethics, good manners,
Godly values, and Oneness of Allah, yes
yes!
• He was our master Our leader Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) had good intention
to save the mortal being

27. Continued
• from the punishment of hell fire. But in
return, Holy Prophet had to face the
eminety of Quraish, and all the tribel
authorities.
• It was the time of Prophetic era. When
the horizons of Islam were about to
widen.

28. Continued
• Holy Prophet (SAW) went to the City of
Ta'aif, wherein He PDUH proclaime the
message of Oneness of Allah with good
intention, but in return the people
contrary to respect him, they threw the
stone at him and make him wounded.

29. Continued
• Then continuously threw stones at him
until He Saw wet with blood till feet.
• In this incident there are alot of moral
and intellectual lessons are existed.
• (1); whenever you want to have plan in
order to perform righteous act, then
you should surely get ready to face
lurch.

30. Continued
• (2); if you have to face circumstances
and conspiracies, you should never loss
your heart.
• Similarly the Grandson of Holy Prophet
SAW Imam Hussain became victim,
while he had come out in order to forge
the proclaimation of truth.

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• But he also had to face the biggest
lurch.
• Merely for good purpose, Imam Hussein
accepted and set out from Mecca with
his family and an entourage of about
seventy followers.

32. Continued
• But on the plain of Kerbela they were
caught in an ambush, set by Yazzid.
• Though defeat was certain, Hussain
refused to pay homage to Yazzid.
• Only for their good intention, hussain
and his seventy followers had to pay the
cost with their blood.

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• Finally Hussein the adults and some
male children of his Family and his
companions were cut to bits by the
arrows and swords of Yazid's army.
• Nobody in the history of the human
kind has seen such atrocities.

34. Continued
• Holy prophet had good intentions
• Imam Hussein had good intentions
• but people treated with them badly,
• both Grandfather and Grandson wanted
to remove the obstacles from the path
of the humanity, intentions.

35. Continued
• but People created a lot of Obstacles in
the way of Prophet and his Grandson
Imam hussain.
• Hence concluded that, every good deed
without struggles, and sacrifice, is an
illusion. So get ready in order to offer
sacrifice and perform struggle, if you
have good

36. Conclusion
• In this article, we revealed that the
quote, “The path to Hell is paved with
good intentions,” is often
misunderstood. We discussed that
when we do our best to follow the
teachings of the ISLAM, we can rightly
say that the path to Heaven is paved
with good intentions.

37. Continued
• We presented the notion that
scrupulosity is often the psychological
result of having been repeatedly
shamed.

38. References
• Aquinas, T. (1920). The summa
theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas
(Second and revised edition).
• Kevin Knight, Copyright 2008. Retrieved
November 5, 2010 from
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/30
49.htm#article3.

39. Continued
• Baars, C.W. (2001). Born only once: The
miracle of affirmation. Chicago, IL:
Franciscan Herald Press.
• Hogan, M.M. (date
unpublished). Maternal-fetal
relations. Class notes for Medical Ethics
course.

40. Continued
• Notre Dame, IN: International Catholic
University. Retrieved November 5, 2010
from
http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c041
10.htm.

41. Continued
• Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (1993).
Catechism of the Catholic Church.
• Retrieved on November 5, 2010
from http://www.vatican.va/archive/cat
echism/ccc_toc.htm.

42. •Thank you for your
concentration 
•Allah Hafiz
• Designed and prepared by Muhammad
Faizan Akhter