QIYAMAT

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QIYAMAT
In the light of the Quran and Sunnah
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When The Destruction Of Living Things Shall Begin
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The Blowing of the Trumpet
A Trumpet will be blown. This will be a huge
destructive blast which will give no time to
finish anything. Allah will destroy all living
things except what He wills.
And the Trumpet will be blown, and all who are
in the heavens and all who are on the earth will
swoon away, except whom Allah wills (Quran
3968)
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How quickly will people die
The Prophet (s.a.w) said The Hour will be
established (so suddenly) that two persons
spreading a garment between them will not be able
to finish their bargain, nor will they be able to
fold it up. The Hour will be established while a
man is carrying the milk of his she-camel, but
cannot drink it and the Hour will be established
when someone is not able to prepare the tank to
water his livestock from it and the Hour will be
established when some of you has raised his food
to his mouth but cannot eat it. (Bukhari)
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The one who will blow the trumpet
Israfeel is prepared from the time Allah created
him. The Prophet (s.a.w) said
How could I relax when the
bearer of the Trumpet has put the Trumpet to his
lips and tilted his forehead, and is listening
out, waiting for the command to blow the
Trumpet. (Tirmidhi)
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The Day when the trumpet will be blown
The Hour will begin on Friday.
The Prophet (s.a.w) said The best of your
days is Friday. Adam was created on Friday, and
this day he died, the Trumpet will be blown and
all of the creation will swoon on Friday. (Abu
Dawood) The days were shown to me, and among
them Friday was shown to me. It looked like a
white mirror in the middle of which is a black
spot. I asked, What is this?. It was said, The
Hour.
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How Many Times Will the Trumpet be blown
Israfil will blow the Trumpet twice. Ar
Raajifah, and the second Ar-Raadifah And the
trumpet will be blown, and all who are in the
heavens and all who are on the earth will swoon
away, except him who Allah wills. Then it will be
blown a second time, and behold they will be
standing, looking on (waiting). (Quran 3968)
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WHEN EVERYTHING HAS PERISHED
All that is on earth will perish But will
abide (forever) the Face of your Lord, full of
Majesty Bounty and Honor. (Quran 5525-26)
Allah will say Where are the mighty men? Where
are the proud men? For whom is the dominion
today? Then after a long interval, Allah will
Himself reply to this question That of Allah,
the One, The Irresistible. (Quran 4016)
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The resurrection
The Prophet (s.a.w) said All of the children of
Adam will be consumed by the earth apart from the
coccyx (tail bone) from which he was created and
will be created anew. Allah has forbidden
the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets.
Then Allah will send or He will cause to be
sent rain which will be like dew and there will
grow out of it the bodies of people. Then the
second trumpet will be blown and they will stand
up and begin to look (around). (Muslim)
When Allah wills, He will command Israfeel to
blow the Trumpet and the souls will return to the
bodies
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All created things will be gathered in one huge
place
That is a Day wherein mankind will be gathered
together, and that is a Day when all (the
dwellers of the heavens and the earth) will be
present. (Quran 11103)
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It will be a long day
A questioner asked about a Penalty to befall. To
the disbelievers of it there is none to ward
off.(It is) from Allah, Lord of the Ways of
Ascent. The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him
during a Day the extent of which is fifty
thousand years. (Quran701-4) And on the
Day when He will gather them, (it will be) as if
they had not remained (in the world) but an hour
of the day (and) they will know each other
assuredly those will have lost who denied the
meeting with Allah and were not guided.
(Quran1045)
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Compared to the life of this world
The Day they see it (it will be) as if they had
not remained but a single evening or (at most
till) the following morning! (Quran 7946)
The Day when the Trumpet will be sounded that
Day We shall gather the sinful blear-eyed (with
terror). In whispers will they consult each
other "You remained not longer than ten (Days)"
We know best what they will say when their leader
most eminent in conduct will say "You remained
not but one day! (Quran 20102-104)
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They will be in bodies that will never die.
.. And death will come to him from very side,
yet he will not die (Quran 1417) People
will be able to see things they could not see
before such as angels and jinns, and other
things which only Allah knows..
The Resurrection Will Be A New Creation
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First person for whom the earth will split open
The Prophet (s.a.w) said I will be the
leader of the children of Adam on the Day of
Resurrection, and the first one for whom the
grave will be split open, the first one to
intercede and the first one whose intercession
will be accepted.. (Muslim)
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Description of gathering of mankind
People will be gathered barefoot , naked and
uncircumcized . The believers will rise from
their graves according to their eeman and deeds.
They will be doing what they were doing when they
died. For e.g. reciting the talbiyah if they died
in a state of ihram, or reciting the kalimah if
they were reciting it at death, martyrs with
their wounds bleeding red and with the scent of
musk. The believers will not be in the same
state of fear as the disbelievers and polytheists.
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The Disbelievers
The transgressors, sinners, disbelievers and
polytheists will be raised according to their
deeds Some will be blind, some deaf, some lame,
some in the form of ants and some walking on
their faces. When the Prophet (s.a.w) was
asked how people could walk on their faces, he
replied He who caused them to walk on their
feet has power to make them walk on their
faces. (Tirmidhi)
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The clothing of mankind on the day of
ressurection
The righteous will be clothed in noble
garments The first to be clothed will be
Ibrahim Al-Khaleel (AS) The evil-doers will be
clothed in trousers of tar and a shield of scabs,
and other awful garments.
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That Will Be That Day A Day Of Distress . Far
From Easy For Those Without Faith.
(Quran749-10)
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Fear And Terror So Great
O mankind! fear your Lord! For the convulsion of
the Hour (of Judgment) will be a thing terrible!
The Day you shall see it, every mother giving
suck shall forget her suckling-babe and every
pregnant female shall drop her load (unformed)
you shall see mankind as in a drunken riot yet
not drunk but dreadful will be the Wrath of
Allah. (Quran 221-2) Think not that Allah
does not heed the deeds of those who do wrong.
He but gives them respite against a Day when the
eyes will fixedly stare in horror. They are
running forward with necks outstretched, their
heads uplifted, their gaze returning not towards
them and their hearts a (gaping) void. (Quran
1442-43)
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Fear And Terror So Great
Warn them of the Day that is (ever) drawing near
when the Hearts will (come) right up to the
throats to choke (them) no intimate friend nor
intercessor will the wrongdoers have who could be
listened to. (Quran 4018) Hearts that Day
will be in agitation Cast down will be (their
owners') eyes. (Quran798-9) Then how can
you fear, if you disbelieve, a Day that will make
the children white-haired? The heaven will break
apart therefrom ever is His promise fulfilled.
( Quran 7317-18)
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No one Will Care For Another
Then when the Trumpet is blown there will be no
more relationships between them that day nor will
one ask after another! (Quran23101) That
Day shall a man flee from his own brother. And
from his mother and his father. And from his wife
and his children. Each one of them that Day will
have enough concern (of his own) to make him
indifferent to the others. (Quran8034-37)
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No one Will Care For Another
O mankind, do your duty to your Lord and fear
(the coming of) a Day when no father will avail
his son nor will a son avail his father at all.
(Quran3133) And no friend will ask after a
friend. Though they will be put in sight of each
other. The sinner's desire will be would that he
could redeem himself from the Penalty of that Day
by (sacrificing) his children, his wife and his
brother, his kindred who sheltered him. And all
that is on earth so it could deliver him
(Quran7010-14)
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THE Land Of Gathering
The land is other than this earth of ours.
On the Day when the earth will be changed to
another earth and so will be the heavens, and
they (all creatures) will appear before Allah,
the One, the Irresistible.(Quran1448)
The Prophet (s.a.w) said
On the Day of Resurrection, mankind will be
gathered on an earth that is reddish white, like
a fine loaf of bread (made from pure fine
flour) (Bukhari)
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Driven to the plain of Hashr
Two angels will be appointed over every person to
deliver him from the grave to the Plain of
Hashr The disbelivers will traverse this
distance in a state of disgrace and humiliation,
some stumbling, some trampled under peoples
feet, some being driven by a fire behind them
The believers will also traverse the distance
on rides or on foot according to their beliefs
and deeds.
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Separation on reaching hashr
O you in sin! Get you apart this Day! (Quran
3659) All the people will be separated into
groups according to their predominant deeds or
misdeeds in the world Sun worshippers, star
worshippers, fire worshippers, idol worshippers,
apostates, hypocrites, etc. The scholars, the
worshippers, the martyrs, the mujahid, the
huffaz, the Allah-conscious, the humble etc. The
sinners and transgressors will be separated
those who did not pray, those who did not fast,
those who did not give zakah, tyrants,
riba-takers, robbers, betrayers of trust, friends
of the disbelivers etc.
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Unbearable heat, hunger and thirst
The sun will be pouring down fire from a distance
of one mile and there will be no shade. The
ground will be blazing hot. People will be
immersed in their sweat according to their deeds,
some up to their ankles, others up to the knees,
thighs, chests or necks. The disbelievers and
polytheists will have their mouths covered with
sweat reaching their ears and some will be
totally immersed in it. The hunger and thirst
will be unbearable. Hungry, thirsty and hot,
they will wait for 50,000 years
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The greater intercession
People will go to the prophets Adam, Nuh, Musa,
Eisa (AS)for intercession to speed up the
judgment but will be told to go to someone else.
They will refuse them saying My Lord has today
become angry as He has never become before, nor
will become thereafter. Finally they will go to
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) and plead for
intercession. On that day Allah will raise him to
Al-Maqam-al-Mahmuud, the station of praise and
glory, which is under Allahs throne, On reaching
there, he (s.a.w) will fall in prostration before
Allah and will be guided to praise and
glorifications of Him. When Allahs anger has
subsided, then it will be said O Muhammad!
Raise your head. Ask and it will be granted.
Intercede! It will be accepted.
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The Reckoning And Requital
The Prophet (s.a.w) will return to the Plain of
Hashr and Allah will descend majestically with
the angels, 8 of them holding the throne. And
your Lord will come, and His angels, rank upon
rank. (Quran8922) Angels will be standing
in rows at the close and distant corners and the
court will be set up for judgment The Prophets
and witnesses will be called and the Record of
deeds will be distributed. A person will remember
his deeds in graphic detail. What a book is
this! It leaves out nothing small or great , but
takes account thereof! (Quran1849)
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THE Reaction
That Day shall you be brought to Judgment not
an act of yours that you hide will be hidden.
Then he that will be given his Record in his
right hand will say "Ah here! read you my
Record! "I did really understand that my Account
would (one Day) reach me! (Quran 6918-20)
And he that will be given his Record in his left
hand will say "Ah! would that my record had not
been given to me!"And that I had never realized
how my account (stood)! Ah! would that (Death)
had made an end of me! (Quran6925-27)
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Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight
of good see it! And anyone who has done an
atom's weight of evil shall see it. (Quran
997-8)
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The Prophet (s.a.w) saidThe son of Adam will
not be released from his Lords presence on the
Day of Resurrection until he has been questioned
about five things his life and how he spent it,
his youth and how he used it, his wealth and how
he earned it and spent it and what he did with
the knowledge he gained. (Tirmidhi)
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Anything to save themselves but to no avail
And if each soul that wronged had everything on
earth, it would offer it in ransom. And they
will confide regret when they see the punishment
and they will be judged in justice, and they will
not be wronged. (Quran 1054) But those
who did not respond to Him - if they had all that
is in the earth entirely and the like of it with
it, they would (attempt to) ransom themselves
thereby. Those will have the worst account, and
their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the resting
place. (Quran1318)
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Anything to save themselves but to no avail
As to those who reject faith and die rejecting,
never would be accepted from any such as much
gold as the earth contains though they should
offer it for ransom. For such is (in store) a
penalty grievous and they will find no helpers.
(Quran 391) And no friend will ask after
a friend. Though they will be put in sight of
each other. The sinner's desire will be would
that he could redeem himself from the Penalty of
that Day by (sacrificing) his children. And his
wife and his brother. And his kindred who
sheltered him.And all all that is on earth so it
could deliver him (Quran 7011-14)
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Denial of sins
Despite the testimony of the angels, prophets of
the time, places, the earth, days and nights, a
person will deny his sins. That Day shall We
set a seal on their mouths. But their hands will
speak to Us and their feet bear witness to all
that they did. (Quran 3665) At length
when they reach the (Fire) their hearing their
sight and their skins will bear witness against
them as to (all) their deeds. They will say to
their skins "Why do you bear witness against
us?" They will say "Allah has given us speech
(He) Who gives speech to everything He created
you for the first time and unto Him were you to
return. (Quran 4121-22)
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Nations who denied their prophets will be
questioned
These nations will deny that their prophets
delivered them Allahs message, so the Muslims
will testify to the truth based on what they have
been told in the Quran that these prophets did do
so. It is He Who has named you Muslims both
before and in this (Revelation) that the Apostle
may be a witness for you and you be witnesses for
mankind! (Quran 2278)
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If only you could see when the guilty ones will
bend low their heads before their Lord (saying)
"Our Lord! We have seen and we have heard now
then send us back (to the world) we will work
righteousness for we do indeed (now) believe.
(Quran 3212)
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Blame laying
And they would say "Our Lord! We obeyed our
chiefs and our great ones and they misled us as
to the (right). Lord! Give them Double Penalty
and curse them with a very great Curse!
(Quran3367-68) He will say Enter you
in the company of the peoples who passed away
before you, men and Jinns into the fire. Every
time a new people enters, it curses its
sister-people (that went before) until they
follow each other all into the fire. The last
about the first will say "Our Lord! it is these
that misled us so give them a double penalty in
the fire." He will say "doubled for all, but
this you do not understand. Then the first will
say to the last See then! no advantage have you
over us so taste the penalty for all that you
did!" (Quran 73839)
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other proceedings in hashr

• Accountability for other deeds.
• Of the rights of Allah, the first will be prayer.
• Of the rights of people, the first will be for
  murder

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Retaliation given for wrong done to others
Allah will announce, I am the King and the One
who gets people their rights. Today no inmate of
Hell can go to Hell till I get very inhabitant of
Paradise his right from him, and no inhabitant of
Paradise will go to Paradise till I get the
inmate of Hell his right from him.(Tabarani)
The currency of settlement will be deeds. Good
deeds will be given from the account of the
oppressor to the oppressed. If there are
insufficient good deeds, then the equivalent
amount of evil deeds of the oppressed will be put
into the account of the oppressor. Even
animals will claim their rights for any
injustices done to each other and then they will
be given the order to die.
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Allahs Messenger (SAW) said Do you know who
is poor? They (the Companions of the Prophet)
said A poor man amongst us is one who has
neither dirham with him nor wealth. He (the
Prophet) said The poor of my Ummah would be he
who would come on the Day of Resurrection with
prayers and fasts and Zakat but (he would find
himself bankrupt on that day as he would have
exhausted his funds of virtues) since he hurled
abuses upon others, brought calumny against
others and unlawfully consumed the wealth of
others and shed the blood of others and beat
others, and his virtues would be credited to the
account of one (who suffered at his hand). And if
his good deeds fall short to clear the account,
then his sins would be entered in (his account)
and he would be thrown in the Hell-Fire.
(Muslim).
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Setting up of scales
After all settlement of claims, the Record of
Deeds in its final form will be ready for
weighing and the Scales will be set up. The
weight of peoples deeds will be according to
their eeman, aqeedah(belief) and intentions. The
best possible deeds of disbelievers,
polytheists, apostates and hypocrites will not
even weigh an atom. The weight of the kalimah
will outweigh all the scrolls of a believer.
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The cistern
Allah will honour His slave and Messenger in the
great gathering by giving him for his ummah, a
huge vast cistern , the water of which comes from
river of Al-Kauthar which Allah has given to His
Messenger in Paradise. Whoever drinks from it
will never feel thirsty again. The Prophet
(s.a.w) will recognise his ummah by the white
faces, hands and feet on account of the traces of
their ablution. Those who turned apostate or
innovated in religion will be turned away and
kept away from it.
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Final gathering to the place of eternal abode
The non-believers will fall into Hell. As for
the believers, Allah, the Almighty will come to
them in the shape other than the one they saw the
first time and they will not recognise Him and He
will uncover His shin. Every believer will
prostrate to Him except those who used to
prostrate in the world for showing off and
gaining a good reputation. These people will try
to prostrate but their backs will be rigid like
one piece of wood.
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Sirat bridge over hell
Every person will have to pass over this bridge
over Hell to get to Paradise. It is finer than a
hair and sharper than the edge of a
sword Before passing it, pitch darkness will
engulf the entire Plain of Hashr and every person
will be given light according to his beliefs and
deeds. The least level of light will be a
flickering light in the toe. The light of the
hypocrites will be extinguished and at that time
the believers will pray Our Lord! Perfect our
light for us, and grant us forgiveness For you
have power over all things. (Quran668)
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Sirat bridge over hell

• Sirat is a slippery bridge on which there are
  clamps and hooks.
• Some believers will cross the bridge in the
  blinking of an eye, some as fast as lightning,
  some running, walking, crawling or dragging
  themselves.
• Some people will be safe, others will be cut,
  some will fall down into Hell.
• The prophets will be making the invocation
  Allahumma Sallim, Sallim (O Allah, save us, save
  us!)
• The first to cross the bridge will be Prophet
  Muhammad (s.a.w).
• After crossing the bridge, people will be stopped
  at Qantara, the last part of the bridge before
  entering Paradise and cleansed and purified of
  any anger, rancour or negative feelings.

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Fate of the hypocrites

• The hypocrites will have no light and will ask
  the believers for light. It will be said Go
  back and seek a light.
• They will be tricked as they used to deceive the
  believers in the world .When they will retreat to
  the rear, and the believers would have advanced
  to the front, the two groups will become
  distinct.
• A wall will be set up between them in which there
  will be a gate within that wall will be mercy
  and outside it will be torment.

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THE intercession
The Prophet(s.a.w) will approach the gate of
Paradise it will open and he will enter it with
his ummah.
He will be concerned about his ummah who have
fallen into Hell and he will fall down in
prostration, praise and glorify Allah and request
permission to intercede. He will be told to take
out of Hell anyone from his ummah who has the
equivalent of a grain of barley of eeman in his
heart. The martyrs, scholars, righteous and
awliya of the Muslim ummah will also intercede
for people known to them. After this, the
Prophets ummah will constitute one fourth of the
inhabitants of Paradise. The other prophets will
then start interceding for their nations.
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THE intercession
He (s.a.w) will again fall down in prostration
and seek permission to intercede and he will be
granted this. He will be told to take out of Hell
anyone who has eeman to the extent of a mustard
seed or an atom. After this his ummah will
constitute one third of the people of
Paradise. For the third time he (s.a.w) will
prostrate to Allah seeking permission to
intercede and this time it will be for people
with less than a mustard seed of eeman in their
hearts. After taking them out of Hell his ummah
will reach to half the residents of Paradise.
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THE fourth time
The fourth time when he (s.a.w) will seek
permission to intercede for those who said even
once, There is no god but Allah, Allah will say
By My Honour, Greatness and Glory and Majesty!
Whoever said there is no God but Allah, I will
Myself take him out of the Fire.
He will take out some people whose bodies have
been burnt, and they will be thrown into a river
at the entrance of Paradise, called the water of
life. They will grow on its banks, as a seed
carried by the torrent grows, how it grows beside
a rock or beside a tree, and how the side facing
the sun is usually green while the side facing
the shade is white. Then they will enter Paradise
whereupon the people of Paradise will say, These
are the people emancipated by the Beneficent.
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Reunited with family
When the process of intercession will be
completed and all the people of Paradise will
have entered Paradise, then the people will
desire to meet their relatives and dear ones.
Allah will unite them so that they will be
together in Paradise as a family. Gardens of
perpetual bliss they shall enter there as well
as the righteous among their fathers their
spouses and their offspring. (Quran 1323)
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No More Death
When the people of Paradise have entered Paradise
and the people of Hell have entered Hell, Death
will be brought forward in the shape of a black
and white ram. Then a call maker will call, 'O
people of Paradise!' Thereupon they will stretch
their necks and look carefully. The caller will
say, 'Do you know this?' They will say, 'Yes,
this is Death.' By then all of them will have
seen it. Then it will be announced again, 'O
people of Hell!' They will stretch their necks
and look carefully. The caller will say, 'Do you
know this?' They will say, 'Yes, this is Death.'
And by then all of them will have seen it. Then
it (that ram) will be slaughtered and the caller
will say, 'O people of Paradise! Eternity for you
and no death. O people of Hell! Eternity for you
and no death. (Bukhari)
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A LESSON FOR US ALL
Compared to the distress and the anxieties of the
Hereafter, the anxieties of this world are
insignificant and so transient. Compared to the
eternal and innumerable bounties and blessings of
the Hereafter, the blessings and comforts of this
world are also transient and much less in degree
and numbers. When the Prophet (s.a.w) was asked
who was the most intelligent person, he (s.a.w)
said He who remembers death the most, and who
prepares well for the time that will come after
death is the most intelligent. (Ibn Majah)
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We seek Allahs forgiveness
To ascertain the exact sequence of events from
the time of the first sounding of the trumpet to
the time of entering Paradise or Hell is not an
easy task. Sometimes when reading the sequence
one may feel something is missing. As for the
missing gaps, we have not tried to fill them, but
have narrated it as simply as possible and in the
way it is to be found in the hadith. If we have
done it accurately, we thank Allah. If we have
not, we seek forgiveness from the Merciful, for
He is indeed the OftForgiving, the Most
Merciful.