The Day Of Resurrection

ONLY ALLAH KNOWS WHEN THE HOUR IS DUE

Knowledge of the Hour is referred to Him. And no fruit emerges from its husk, nor does any female get pregnant or give birth, without His knowledge. On the Day He calls out to them: 'Where are My associates?', they will say, 'We declare to you that none of us is a witness.' (Qur'an, 41:47)

The Day of Decision is a fixed appointment: (Qur'an, 78:17)

They will ask you about the Hour: when is it due? Say: 'Knowledge of it rests with my Lord alone. He alone will reveal it at its proper time. It hangs heavy in the heavens and the earth. It will not come upon you except suddenly.' They will ask you as if you had full knowledge of it. Say: 'Knowledge of it rests with Allah alone. But most people do not know that.' (Qur'an, 7:187)

The Unseen of the heavens and earth belongs to Allah. The matter of the Hour is only the blink of an eye away, or even nearer. Allah has power over all things. (Qur'an, 16:77)

Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Qur'an, 31:34)

People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: 'Only Allah has knowledge of it. What will make you understand? It may be that the Last Hour is very near.' (Qur'an, 33:63)

They say, 'When will this promise come about if you are telling the truth?' Say: 'You have a promised appointment on a Day which you cannot delay or advance a single hour.' (Qur'an, 34:29-30)

Blessed be Him to Whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and everything in between them. The knowledge of the Hour is with Him. You will be returned to Him. (Qur'an, 43:85)

They ask you about the Hour: 'When will it come?' What are you doing mentioning it? Its coming is your Lord's affair. (Qur'an, 79:42-44)

They say, 'When will this promise come about if you are telling the truth?' Say: 'The knowledge is with Allah alone and I am only a clear warner.' (Qur'an, 67:25-26)

The Imminent is imminent! No one besides Allah can unveil it. (Qur'an, 53:57-58)

IT IS A CERTAIN FACT

That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up the pages of a book. As We originated the first creation so We will regenerate it. It is a promise binding on Us. That is what We will do. (Qur'an, 21:104)

When the Great Event occurs, none will deny its occurrence. (Qur'an, 56:1-2)

What you are promised will certainly happen. (Qur'an, 77:7)

Say: 'Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, and then will gather you together for the Day of Rising about which there is no doubt. But most people do not know it.' (Qur'an, 45:26)

THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM IT

The evildoers will see the Fire and realise they are going to fall into it and find no way of escaping from it. (Qur'an, 18:53)

IT IS DRAWING CLOSER EVERYDAY

The Imminent is imminent! (Qur'an, 53:57)

Mankind's Reckoning has drawn very close to them, yet they heedlessly turn away. (Qur'an, 21:1)

It is Allah Who has sent down the Book with truth and with the Just Balance. What will make you realise? Perhaps the Hour is close. (Qur'an, 42:17)

IT WILL COME SUDDENLY AND UNPREDICTABLY

What are they waiting for, but the Hour to come upon them suddenly when they are not expecting it? (Qur'an, 43:66)

What are they awaiting but for the Hour to come upon them suddenly? Its Signs have already come. What good will their Reminder be to them when it does arrive? (Qur'an, 47:18)

No, it will come upon them suddenly, confounding them, taking them completely by surprise, and they will not be able to ward it off. They will be granted no reprieve. (Qur'an, 21:40)

What are they waiting for but one Great Blast to seize them while they are quibbling? They will not be able to make a will or return to their families. (Qur'an, 36:49-50)

IT CONSISTS OF JUST ONE GREAT BLAST

There will be but one Great Blast and then their eyes will open. (Qur'an, 37:19)

What are they waiting for but one Great Blast to seize them while they are quibbling? (Qur'an, 36:49)

The Day they hear the Blast in truth, that is the Day of Emergence. (Qur'an, 50:42)

IT IS UNSPEAKABLY TERRIBLE

Turn away from them then.On the Day the Summoner summons them to something unspeakably terrible, (Qur'an, 54:6)

ON THAT DAY EVERYTHING WILL COME TO LIGHT

'You were heedless of this so We have stripped you of your covering and today your sight is sharp.' (Qur'an, 50:22)

IT IS THE DAY OF SEPARATION BETWEEN PEOPLE

And what will teach you what the Day of Sorting is? On that Day, woe to the deniers! (Qur'an, 77:14-15)

Bringing low, raising high. (Qur'an, 56:3)

They will say, 'Alas for us! This is the Day of Reckoning!' This is the day of sorting things out you used to deny. (Qur'an, 37:20-21)

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up the pages of a book. As We originated the first creation so We will regenerate it. It is a promise binding on Us. That is what We will do. (Qur'an, 21:104)

So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast, and the earth and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single blow, On that Day, the Occurrence will occur and Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail. (Qur'an, 69:13-16)

When the stars are extinguished, when heaven is split open, when the mountains are pulverised, when the Messengers' time is appointed… (Qur'an, 77:8-11)

The Day the Trumpet is blown and you come in droves, and heaven is opened and becomes doorways, and the mountains are shifted and become a mirage. (Qur'an, 78:18-20)

And the mountains are crushed and become scattered dust in the air. (Qur'an, 56:5-6)

On the Day the sky is like molten brass and the mountains like tufts of coloured wool. (Qur'an, 70:8-9)

They will ask you about the mountains. Say: 'My Lord will scatter them as dust. He will leave them as a barren, level plain on which you will see no dip or gradient.' (Qur'an, 20:105-107)

When the earth is convulsed with its quaking and the earth then disgorges its charges and man asks, 'What is wrong with it?', on that Day it will impart all its news because your Lord has inspired it. (Qur'an, 99:1-5)

ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
PEOPLE WILL EMERGE FROM THEIR GRAVES
AND CONGREGATE

The Trumpet will be blown and at once they will be sliding from their graves towards their Lord. (Qur'an, 36:51)

They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like swarming locusts, necks outstretched, eyes transfixed, rushing headlong to the Summoner.The unbelievers will say, 'This is a pitiless day!' (Qur'an, 54:7-8)

On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who associated others with Allah, 'Where are the partner-gods, for whom you made such claims?' (Qur'an, 6:22)

On the Day We gather them all together, We will say then to those who associated others with Allah, 'To your place, you and your partner-gods!' Then We will sift them out, and their partner-gods will say, 'It was not us you worshipped. (Qur'an, 10:28)

The Day the Trumpet is blown and you come in droves, (Qur'an, 78:18)

On the Day We make the mountains move and you see the earth laid bare and We gather them together, not leaving out a single one of them, they will be paraded before your Lord in ranks: 'You have come to Us just as We created you at first. Yes indeed! Even though you claimed that We would not fix a time with you.' (Qur'an, 18:47-48)

We will abandon them, that Day, to pound against each other in surging waves and the Trumpet will be blown and We will gather them all together. (Qur'an, 18:99)

EVERYONE IN THE HEAVENS
AND EARTH IS TERRIFIED

On the Day the Trumpet is blown and everyone in the heavens and everyone on the earth is terrified— except those Allah wills, everyone will come to Him abject. (Qur'an, 27:87)

THE UNBELIEVERS ARE RECOGNIZED BY THEIR FACES

The evildoers will be recognised by their mark and seized by their forelocks and their feet. (Qur'an, 55:41)

Their eyes will be downcast, darkened by debasement; for they were called on to prostrate when they were in full possession of their faculties. (Qur'an, 68:43)

On the Day the Trumpet is blown— and We will gather the evildoers sightless on that Day.(Qur'an, 20:102)

THE UNBELIEVERS HAVE DARK FACES

On the Day of Rising you will see those who lied against Allah with their faces blackened. Do not the arrogant have a dwelling place in Hell? (Qur'an, 39:60)

THEIR EYES ARE TRANSFIXED

(O Muhammad!) Do not consider Allah to be unaware of what the wrongdoers perpetrate. He is merely deferring them to a Day on which their sight will be transfixed, rushing headlong – heads back, eyes vacant, hearts hollow. (Qur'an, 14:42-43)

THE BELIEVERS ARE RECOGNIZED BY THEIR LIGHT

That Day some faces will be radiant, laughing, rejoicing (Qur'an, 80:38-39)

On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: 'Good news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.' That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those who believe, 'Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your light.' They will be told, 'Go back and look for light!' And a wall will be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment. (Qur'an, 57:12-13)

You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and those who believed along with him.Their light will stream out ahead of them and on their right.They will say, 'Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us! You have power over all things.' (Qur'an, 66:8)

ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION NOBODY
CAN SPEAK A WORD WITHOUT
ALLAH'S PERMISSION

On the Day it comes, no self will speak except by His permission. Some of them will be wretched and others glad. (Qur'an, 11:105)

On that day they will follow the Summoner who has no crookedness in him at all. Voices will be humbled before the All-Merciful and nothing but a whisper will be heard. (Qur'an, 20:108)

NO ONE CAN HELP ANYONE
WITHOUT ALLAH'S PERMISSION

On that Day intercession will not be of any use except for him whom the All-Merciful has authorised and with whose speech He is well-pleased. (Qur'an, 20:109)

(On that day) no good friend will ask about his friend (Qur'an, 70:10)

The Day a man will flee from his brother and his mother and his father, (Qur'an, 80:34-35)

On that Day every man among them will have concerns enough of his own. (Qur'an, 80:37)

So worship anything you will apart from Him!' Say: 'The real losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Rising.' Is not that clear loss? (Qur'an, 39:15)

ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION THEY ARE QUESTIONED AND
SEPARATED FROM THE PARTNERS THEY HAVE ASSOCIATED WITH ALLAH

On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who associated others with Allah, 'Where are the partner-gods, for whom you made such claims?' Then they will have no recourse except to say, 'By Allah, our Lord, We were not idolaters.' See how they lie against themselves and how what they invented has forsaken them! (Qur'an, 6:22-24)

On the Day the Hour arrives the evildoers will be in despair. None of their partner-gods will intercede for them. They will reject their partner-gods. (Qur'an, 30:12-13)

On the Day We gather them all together, We will say then to those who associated others with Allah, 'To your place, you and your partner-gods!' Then We will sift them out, and their partner-gods will say, 'It was not us you worshipped. Allah is a sufficient witness between us and you. We were unaware of your worship.' Then and there every self will be tried for what it did before. They will be returned to Allah, their Master, the Real, and what they invented will abandon them. (Qur'an, 10:28-30)

When those who associated others with Allah see those they associated, they will say, 'Our Lord, these are our partner gods, the ones we called upon apart from You.' But they will fling their words back in their faces: 'You are truly liars!' On that Day they will offer their submission to Allah and the things they invented will abandon them. (Qur'an, 16:86-87)

On the Day He says, 'Call My partner-gods, those for whom you made such claims,' they will call on them but they will not respond to them. We will place between them an unbridgeable gulf. (Qur'an, 18:52)

And call them to a halt. They will be asked: (Qur'an, 37:24)

On the Day when He summons them He will say, 'Where are they, those you claimed were My associates?' Those against whom the Word has been justly carried out will say, 'Our Lord, those people we misled, we only misled them as we too were misled. We declare our innocence to You. It was not us they were worshipping!' They will be told, 'Call on your partner-gods!' They will call on them but they will not respond to them. They will see the punishment. Oh if only they had been guided! On the Day when He summons them He will say, 'How did you respond to the Messengers?' (Qur'an, 28:62-65)

On the Day when He summons them He will say, 'Where are they, those you claimed to be My associates?' (Qur'an, 28:74)

They will be asked, 'Where are those you used to worship besides Allah? Can they help you or even help themselves?' (Qur'an, 26:92-93)

If only you could see when they are standing before their Lord. He will say, 'Is this not the Truth?' They will say, 'Yes indeed, by our Lord!' He will say, 'Then taste the punishment for your disbelief.' (Qur'an, 6:30)

ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
EVERY ONE IS QUESTIONED BY HIMSELF

Each of them will come to Him on the Day of Rising all alone. (Qur'an, 19:95)

ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
THE MESSENGERS ARE CALLED TO BEAR WITNESS

When the Messengers' time (for testimony) is appointed—until what day is that deferred? Until the Day of Decision. (Qur'an, 77:11-13)

PEOPLE WILL BE IN THREE GROUPS

And you will be classed into three: the Companions of the Right: What of the Companions of the Right? The Companions of the Left: what of the Companions of the Left? And the Forerunners, the Forerunners. Those are the Ones Brought Near. (Qur'an, 56:7-11)

THE BOOK OF THE BELIEVERS IS GIVEN
INTO THEIR RIGHT HANDS

As for him who is given his Book in his right hand, he will say, 'Here, come and read my Book! I counted on meeting my Reckoning.' He will have a very pleasant life in an elevated Garden, (Qur'an, 69:19-22)

THE BOOK OF THE UNBELIEVERS
IS GIVEN INTO THEIR LEFT HAND

But as for him who is given his Book in his left hand, he will say, 'If only I had not been given my Book and had not known about my Reckoning! If only death had really been the end! (Qur'an, 69:25-27)

THE PUNISHMENT THE UNBELIEVERS
WILL RECEIVE IN RETURN FOR THEIR
DENIAL OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

But as for anyone who turns away and does not believe, Allah will punish him with the Greatest Punishment. (Qur'an, 88:23-24)

And what will teach you what the Day of Decision is? On that Day, woe to the deniers! Did We not destroy the earlier peoples, then succeed them with later ones? That is how We deal with evildoers. On that Day, woe to the deniers! (Qur'an, 77:14-19)

On that Day, woe to the deniers! Proceed to that which you denied! Proceed to a shadow which forks into three (Qur'an, 77:28-30)

But instead, they deny the Hour; and We have prepared a Searing Blaze for those who deny the Hour. When it sees them coming from a long way off, they will hear it seething and rasping. When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. (Qur'an, 25:11-13)

That Day no one will punish as He punishes and no one will shackle as He shackles. (Qur'an, 89:25-26)

THE PENITENCE THE UNBELIEVERS
WILL FEEL ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

Those who deny the meeting with Allah have lost, so that, when the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, 'Alas for what we neglected there!' They will bear their burdens on their backs. How evil is what they bear! (Qur'an, 6:31)

They will say, 'Alas for us! Who has raised us from our resting-place? This is what the All-Merciful promised us. The Messengers were telling the truth.' (Qur'an, 36:52)

ALLAH WILL GATHER SATAN AND HIS FRIENDS
TOGETHER ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

By your Lord, We will collect them and the satans together. Then We will assemble them around Hell on their knees. (Qur'an, 19:68)

SATAN COLLABORATES
WITH HIS DISBELIEVING FRIENDS

Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The satans inspire their friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be idolaters. (Qur'an, 6:121)

Children of Adam! Do not let satan tempt you into trouble as He expelled your parents from the Garden, stripping them of their covering and disclosing to them their private parts. He and his tribe see you from where you do not see them. We have made the satans friends of those who have no faith. (Qur'an, 7:27)

One group He guided; but another group got the misguidance they deserved. They took the satans as friends instead of Allah and thought that they were guided. (Qur'an, 7:30)

When they meet those who believe, they say, 'We believe.' But then when they go apart with their satans, they say, 'We are really with you. We were only mocking.' (Qur'an, 2:14)

SATAN HAS GAINED MASTERY OVER THEM

Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of satan. No indeed! It is the party of satan who are the losers. (Qur'an, 58:19)

SATAN LEADS HIS FOLLOWERS TO THE FIRE

Satan is your enemy so treat him as an enemy. He summons his party so they will be among the people of the Searing Blaze. (Qur'an, 35:6)

When they are told: 'Follow what Allah has sent down,' they say, 'No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing.' What! Even if satan is calling them to the punishment of the Blazing Fire? (Qur'an, 31:21)

HIS FOLLOWERS WILL BE LEFT
HELPLESS ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

He led me astray from the Reminder after it came to me.' Satan always leaves man in the lurch. (Qur'an, 25:29)

ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION JUST BALANCES WILL BE SET UP

We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient as a Reckoner. (Qur'an, 21:47)