“A day when the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down a grand descent. The Sovereignty on that day will be the True (Sovereignty) belonging to the Beneficent One (that is, no one save Him, will have any say in the reckoning, award and punishment), and it will be a hard day for disbelievers. On the day when the wrongdoer bites his hands, he will say: Ah! Would that I would have followed the path of righteousness along with Rasulullah
. Ah! Would that I had never taken such a one for a friend! He verily led me astray from the True Lesson after it had reached me. Satan was everyman’s deserter in the hour of need.”
فَقَدْ كَذَّبُوكُم بِمَا تَقُولُونَ فَمَا تَسْتَطِيعُونَ صَرْفًۭا وَلَا نَصْرًۭا ۚ وَمَن يَظْلِم مِّنكُمْ نُذِقْهُ عَذَابًۭا كَبِيرًۭا ١٩
(Surah Al Furqan : Ayat 19).
affirmed: ‘‘The Most Just Lord will declare at that moment ‘‘O human being! I had warmed thee in the mortal world. Your deeds are before thee today. He who finds his Role of Deeds full of virtues should offer thanks to the Lord Almighty, and he whose Roll of Deeds contains no virtue should blame himself for having paid no heed to the commands of Allah. Thereafter at the command of Allah that sinful man will be caused to suffer torments. Upon this sight, all other men shall bend on their knees. This has been referred to in Sura Jathiya, which affirms:
‘You shall see all classes bent on their knees and each group shall be called to account in respect of their Role of Deeds. After that, adjudication between the people will commence so much so that justice would be done even in the case of animals and, for a she-goat without horns, the she-goat with horns would be avenged. Then the animals will be commanded to become dust (their case being finalized). At that moment, the disbelievers would desire the like treatment, and a disbeliever would say: ‘‘Would that I had become dust’’.
In a hadith, Rasulullah has said, that on the Day of Resurrection, the people would be naked just as they were naked at the time of their birth from the womb of their mothers. Saiyyidah ‘Aisha Binti Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه said: Messenger of Allah, will it not be a matter of shame to be naked in the presence of all others when each will be looking upon the other? They will be seeing each other nakedness. Rasulullah said: The people will, at that moment, be entangled in their own misfortune (anxiety) to such an extent that they will find no time to look upon each other. The eyes of all of them will be fixed upward. Every person will be drenched in perspiration according to the gravity of his evil deeds.
Every person will be drenched in sweat to the extent of his evil deeds. Someone will be drenched in perspiration up to his feet; somebody up to his shin and (shank of the leg); some person up to his abdomen; and some other person up to his mouth. The angels will have formed a circle around the four sides of the Empyrean (the highest sphere where the throne of God is). At that time, each and every person will be called by his name. He will present himself thereby coming out of the crowd.
, an announcement will be made to the effect that those, who have any claim against him, should come forward. Every person, who has any right against him or will have any wrong done to himself by that person, will be called one after the other, and his rights will be returned to him out of the virtues of that person. And if that person would have earned no virtues or in case there will remain nothing of his virtues, then the evil deeds of the persons wronged by him will be added to his record, and when he will, along with his own vices, take the vices of others, he will be asked to go into his Raging Fire, the Raging Fire of Hell. There is an account of it in (Sura, The Calamity). Upon the sight of this severe reckoning and doom, there will be none such favourite angel or prophet, who will not be terrified for his own sake save those whom Almighty God will keep in safety. At that event, every person will be called to account for four things:
(1) In what work did you pass away your worldly life ;
(2) To what use did you put your body?
(3) For what time did you put your learning into practice?
(4) and whence did you earn your wealth and where did you spend it?
IkramaH (رضي الله عنه) says: On that day, father will tell his son that I was your father. He will also remind his son of the favours he had done to him. The son will affirm the favours of his father After this, the father will tell his son that he needs only one virtue—even a tiny part of it—because, due to it my scale of good works may perhaps become weighty. The son will tell him that he himself is undergoing the same misfortune. I am ignorant of what position I am in and what is going to happen to me. I am not in a position to give you any virtue.
Then, that person will also ask his wife to remember the favours he had done to her in the world as well as the kind of relationship he had with her and then will beg for one virtue. She too will refuse in the like manner. In a word, he will continue to ‘wander so as to beg for a virtue. This is the thing about which the Almighty Allah hath said:
‘‘And (on the day) no burdened soul can bear another’s burden (of sin) and if one heavily laden crieth for (help with) his load, nought of it will be lifted (, will not render to him his help of any kind) even though (unto whom he crieth) be of him.”
(Surah Fatir : Ayat 18).
“In the first instance, the father will enquire from his son about how he behaved with him in the world. The son will praise very highly of his father’s treatment of him. Upon this, the father will say to his son :O my son! I beg you only for one virtue which may, perhaps, embrace me with success (forgiveness). The son will reply: O father! You have asked for a very little thing but, despite this,
I am utterly helpless, as I am also experiencing the same fear that you are. hereafter, the same will be the dialogue between him and his wife.”
And the commandment of Allah:
يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ ٣٤
“On the day when a man fleeth from his brother.”
(Surah ‘Abasa ; Ayat 34).
:O people! Be afraid of your Lord, and of the day when neither any father could fulfil the demand of his son and nor any son could meet even with the slightest demand of his father. No doubt, the covenant of Allah is true (that this day would come without fail). So the worldly life may not deceive you so much so that you, being involved in it, may forget that day. The deceiving Satan may also not delude you to the extent that you may become careless of that day. فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ ٣٣
يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ ٣٤
“But when the shout cometh on the day, when a man fleeth from his brother.” (Sura ‘Abasa: Ayat 33-34).
On the Resurrection Day, every person will be perplexed to the effect that some identifiable relative of his may not happen to see him, fearing that he may not put to him any of his demands. This subject has been explained in the Holy Qur’an, time and again, under various titles. This has been stated in Sura Baqarah like this:
"And guard yourselves against a day when no soul will in aught avail another (e.g., one’s. prayer will not be accepted in favour of another) ; nor intercession will be accepted from anyone, nor compensation will be received from anyone and nor they will be helped. (No one may save them from their doom).”
All the probable ways in which help could be rendered have been negated in this Qur’anic verse because there can be only four agencies through which someone can be helped viz. :
(1) some strong person may interfere and prevent the doom by his strength. This is called victory. Its negation has been made ;
(2) some people may prevent the torment without using his power. It is of two kinds: The one is to prevent the torment without getting any remuneration, and this is called intercession. ‘The other is to prevent it by offering some compensation in lieu thereof. It is of two kinds: (z) Either to compensate physically or (it) to compensate monetarily. These have also been negated. Similarly, this subject has also been explained under various titles in the Holy Qur’an on diverse occasions.
About this subject, it should be kept in mind that, in the first instance, it relates to the non-believers, which incidentally abounds in with all the things as aforesaid, to the effect that neither any Prophet nor any friend of Allah, nor any angel, howsoever a favourite one, can save disbelievers from torment. The second subject relates to the Muslims who are sinners, in respect of whom have also been revealed such verses and hadiths (All these relate to some particular time). Thereafter, intercession will be allowed. So, this subject has been explained at various places in ‘the Qur'an. In one place, it has been told:
"On that day no intercession availeth save (that of) him unto whom the Beneficent hath given leave and whose intercession He accepteth."
(Sura Ta Ha - Ayat 109).
It is a well-known saying of Rasulullah:
"Guard yourselves against the Fire ‘of Hell, even with the charity of half of a date fruit." Hadrat Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has said :
"Charity effaces faults in the same manner in which water extinguishes fire." (Jtha’f). It is the saying of Rasulullah that on the Resurrection Day, every person will be under the protective shade of his Charity. (Zakat). In other words, the shade will be as much thick as will be the volume of charity. On the Day of Resurrection when, due to the intensity of heat, man will find himself drenched in perspiration up to his mouth.
Muhammad Rasulullah said:
"Charity also propitiates the anger of the Almighty God and also is a means of protection against a painful death.
(Mishkat)".
There is a will of Luqman رضي الله عنه left for his son that he should spend in charity when any fault is committed by him. (Ihya). It is a well-known narration that a badly corrupt woman was forgiven instead of offering water to a dog for his drinking. ‘Ubaid b. ‘Umair رضي الله عنه says:
"On the Day of Resurrection, the people will be most hungry and thirsty, as well as absolutely naked. But the person, who would have given food to someone, would be offered food by Allah to eat And that person, who in the way of Allah, would have offered water to someone, he would be given water to drink. And the person who, in the name of Allah, would have given clothes to others, would also be granted clothes to wear. On the Day of Resurrection, those belonging to Hell will be caused to stand in one line; and then there will happen to pass by them a true Muslim (friend of Allah).
At that time, one person will say to him that he should intercede with the Almighty Allah in his favour. He will ask him: Who are you? That denizen of Hell will say: Do you know me not; I am that person who had provided you with water to drink at such time. In another hadith, it has been narrated like this: On the Day of Resurrection, when the people belonging to Heaven and Hell will be asked to line up, one man from amongst the line of the ‘denizens of Hell Fire happens to see a man standing in the line of the inmates of Paradise and try to remind him that he had done some favour to him in the world.
Thereupon, that person will, by catching his hand, bring him before the Almighty God and will pray: O Allah! He had done me such a favour. He will thus be forgiven by the Merciful God. There is also a tradition of Rasulullah that there will be a pronouncement on the Day of Resurrection:
Where are the poor belonging to the Ummat (nation) of Rasulullah? Stand up and search out those people from the Resurrection Plain who had, only in My Name, given you a morsel of food or draught of water, or new/old cloth, and bring them into Paradise by holding their hands. Upon this, the poor of the Ummat will rise up and will choose them and bring them into Heaven. There is another hadith to the effect that on the Day of Resurrection a pronouncement will be made: Where are those people who had invited the poor and the orphans to partake of food? Today, you should enter into Heaven in a manner which may indicate that neither you have any fear nor any grief.
Any person, who removes some misfortune of another Muslim, God will remove some of his misfortunes on the Day of Resurrection. And a person who conceals in the world the weakness of someone Almighty God will conceal his sins also on the Day of Resurrection.
A person, who helps his distressed brother, the Almighty God will keep him steadfast on the Day when the mountains will be removed from. their actual place (that is, the Day of Resurrection).
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