If a non-Muslim is a great person, He fulfills everyone rights so still will he go to hell after dying as he is a non-Muslim?

Question

If a non-Muslim is a great person, he fulfills everyone rights and do a lot of good deeds than Muslims and never break anyone heart so still will he go to hell after dying as he is a non-Muslim. what are Islam teaching and rules over it?

Answer 1

Note that by definition, a non-Muslim can not be a great person who fulfills everyone's rights, because he has already contravened the right of Allah by doing kufr and shirk.

ومن أظلم ممن افترى على الله كذبا أو كذب بآياته إنه لا يفلح الظالمون

And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie or denies His verses? Indeed, the wrongdoers will not succeed.

^{— Quran 6:21}

إن الشرك لظلم عظيم

Indeed, association [with him] is great injustice.

^{— Quran 31:13}

In Islam we do not speak about the fate of any particular individual, but we say in general that everyone who dies as a non-Muslim will be in hell, regardless of their deeds, and any reward for their deeds will have been granted to them during their lifetimes.

ومن يبتغ غير الإسلام دينا فلن يقبل منه وهو في الآخرة من الخاسرين

And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.

^{— Quran 3:85}

ومن يكفر بالإيمان فقد حبط عمله وهو في الآخرة من الخاسرين

And whoever denies the faith - his work has become worthless, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.

^{— Quran 5:5}

والذين كفروا فتعسا لهم وأضل أعمالهم

But those who disbelieve - for them is misery, and He will waste their deeds.

^{— Quran 47:8}

والذين كفروا وكذبوا بآياتنا أولئك أصحاب النار خالدين فيها وبئس المصير

But the ones who disbelieved and denied Our verses - those are the companions of the Fire, abiding eternally therein; and wretched is the destination.

^{— Quran 64:10}