On the Day of Recompense That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment! not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden. (LXIX: 18) One day we shall remove the mountains, and thou will see the earth as a level stretch, and we shall gather them, altogether, nor shall leave out any of them, And they will be marshaled before the Lord in ranks, with th e announcement, �Now have ye come to US (bare) as We created ye first! Aye, ye thought we shall not fulfill the appointment made to you to meet Us?� And the Book (of Deed s) will be placed before you; and thou will see the sinful in great terror b ecause of what is recorded therein; they will say, �Ah! Woe to us! What a Book is this! It leaves nothi ng small or great, but takes account thereof! �They will find all that they did placed before them: and not one will thy Lord treat with injustice. (18: 47-47) A man�s own limbs will depose against him before God on the Day of Reconing. That day shall be set a seat on their mouths. But their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness to all that they did. (36: 65) The Quran, in fine, has portrayed most graphically and vividly the happenings of the Last Day: the terrific explosions and the dreadful tremors, the total annihilation of the world-even the mountains will be wiped out of existence, the rising again of men, the gathering together of them for the Judgment, the presentation of the Book of Deeds, the deposing of one�s own limbs against oneself, the judgment, and, finally, the execution of the Divine Verdict and the allotment of Heaven and Hell. All these events have been described so candidly in some of the chapters of the Qu ran that one can obtain a full picture of the happenings of the Last Day by reading them. The Prophet (Peace be upon him), thus, is reported to have observed, �Anyone who wishes to know about the Last Day as if the scene of it was drawn before his eyes should read these chapters of the Quran: Takvir, Infitar and Inshiqaq. We will now see a few Traditions of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) appertaining to Barzakh and the Last Day. Says he: �When anyone of you dies the place that is going to be his abode in the Heaven or in the Hell (on the basis of his conduct in the world) is brought before his eyes every morning and evening and it is said to him, �Behold, this is your destination, and, surely, you will reach it�.� �When the Trumpet will first be sounded on the Last Day by the command of God everyone will faint and drop dead on the gr ound. When it will be sounded next all men will rise again. They will then be commanded to proceed to make their presence before the Lord. The angels, thereafter, will be told to collect th em together and here the investigation into their conduct on the earth will begin.� It is related that a Companion once enqui red from the Prophet (Peace be upon him), �O Messenger of God, how will God raise up his creatures from the dead? Is there anything like it here in this world which may be cited as example?� The Prophet (Peace be upon him) replied, �Has it never accured to you that you may have passed by a stretch of land in your country and found it dry and bereft of all vegetation, and, then, on coming upon it again, after sometime, discovered that it was covered lavishly with fresh, green grass?� The Prophet (Peace be upon him) remarked, �This typifies resurrection. God will raise from the dead in the same manner.� The Prophet (Peace be upon him) is reported to have asked, after reciting the Quranic verse, On the Day (the earth) will declare her tidings, �Do you know what it means?� The companions are said to have replied, �God and His Apostle know best.� The Prophet (Peace be upon him), the Tradition goes on to tell, then said, �On the Day of Judgment the earth will bear witness to all the deeds performed by men on it (i.e., at the bidding of God the earth will tell that such and such a person had done such and such a thing on it on such and such a day).� Speaking of the Day of Recompense the Prophet (Peace be upon him), further, is reported to have said, �On that Day God will call upon everyone to come forward and be his own witness. He will say to him, today you are your own witness: Our recording angels are present; this much of evidence is enough�. Then by the command of God the lips of the person will become sealed and he will not be ab le to utter a word. His limbs (arms, legs, etc.) will then be commanded to speak and they will relate the whole story of his doings in the world.� It is reported that once a person went to the Prophet (Peace be upon him) and said, �O Messenger of God, I have some slaves who sometimes disobey me, or they steal or tell me a lie. I sometimes scold them and, sometimes, I also punish them. How is it going to turn out for me on the Day of Requital?� The Prophet (Peace be upon him) observed, �God will dispense justice correctly on the Day of Judgment. If the punishment you mete out to them is proportionate to their faults you will neither get nor have to give anything; you will be quits. If the punishment turn out to be of a lesser degree than what they merited you will be recompensed for it. If the punishment proves to be excessive you will have to recompense the slaves. �On hearing the Prophet�s reply the enquirer began to cry. He said, �Then, O Prophet of God, the best thing for me is to send them away. I declare before you that I have set them free.� The Prophet (Peace be upon him) is also reported to have recited the following verse of the Quran to him: We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least. And if there be (no more than) the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it (to account)! And enough are we to take account: (21: 47) Next Previous
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