Part 51

And that is why the disbeliever will say when he is raised:

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ches tere sense cco ye ie Me cog ener te oe CN AT, NAN Sa Ge Las CG ls “Woe to us! Who has raised us up from our place of sleep.’ This is referring to that period, and the believer will say to him: “This is what the Most Beneficent (Allah) had promised, and Messengers spoke truéh!’"l Abu Muhkam Al-Jasaree, who was a wise man, once gathered with his brothers, when he recited this Verse:

“And the Trumpet will be blown (i.e. the second blowing) and behold! From the graves they will come out quickly to their Lord. They will say: “Woe to us! Who has raised us up from our place of sleep.” He cried and then said, “...For the entire duration in which they temained in the Barzakh, they were in pain and they were being punished in their graves. They only said, ‘Woe to us,’ because they were headed to a greater catastrophe for them. That is why they played down the punishment in the grave, calling it ‘sleep.’ And there is a proof for that in the Qur’an: “But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense, etc.) He then cried until his beard was soaked. Abu Bakr ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa related this narration.

Abu Idrees Al-Khoolaanee said, “During the period of ignorance, people gathered to Mashaayikh somewhere between Iraq and AshSham. A Shaikh among them stood and said, “O people, you are all dying, and then you will be raised to face judgment and accountability.” A man stood up and said, “By Allah, I saw a man, whom Allah will never resurrect. He fell from his mount during one of the seasons of the Arabs. His camels trampled him with their feet, animals with their hoofs, and men with their legs, until he decomposed without even a fingertip from. him remaining.” The Shaikh said to him, “You are a people...whose certainty of faith

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is weak and whose deeds are few. Had a hyena taken that decomposed body and ate it, and then defecated it; then had dogs came and ate that, after which they defecated it; and then had. animals who eat animal excrement came and ate them... then on the Day of Resurrection, Allah would order everything that took anything from him to return it, and they would all return it. Then Allah would raise him so that he faces judgment and receives his yeward.”

A harsh old man who still had not accepted Islam said, “O Messenger of Allah, regarding three sayings of yours which I have been informed of, no person of sound mind should believe you in them. It has reached me that you say, ‘Indeed, the Arabs will leave that which their fathers worshipped; that we will be victorious over the treasures of Kisra and Qaisar; and that we will die after which we will be resurrected.” The Messenger of Allah #€ said to him, “Then I will indeed take you by your hand on the Day of resurrection and will certainly remind you of this saying of yours.” The man said, “You will not lose me among the dead? And you will not forget me?” The Prophet #% said, “I will not lose you among the dead, nor will I forget you.” The old man lived on even after the Messenger of Allah 2% died. In fact, he himself witnessed the Muslims overcoming Kisrah and Qaisar. He then accepted Islam and became a good Muslim. Very often ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab would be heard greeting him in the Masjid of the Messenger of Allah #%, doing so because he honored the encounter that the man had with the Messenger of Allah #%. ‘Umar would go to him and say, “You have indeed accepted Islam, and the Messenger of Allah 2% promised you to take you by your hand, and the Messenger of Allah #@ does not take anyone by the hand except he who will be successful and happy, Insha Allah.” Al-Waleed related this narration. Sa’eed ibn Jubair @ said, “Al Aas ibn Waail went to the Messenger of Allah #% with a bone that had decayed, and he said, ‘O Muhammad, Allah will raise this” He # said, ‘Yes, He will make you die, and by Allah, he will then bring you to life — then he will make you enter the Hellfire.” And this Verse was revealed:

“And he puts forth for Us a parable, and forgets his own creation.

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He says: “Who will give life to these bones when they have rotted

away and became dust?’

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“And indeed, you have alrendy known the first form of creation (i.e. the creation of Adam)’"?!

Meaning, Allah created Adam and created you, then will you not believe.

Abu Ja’far Al-Baagir used to say, “Tt is the strangest thing that some disbelieve in the bringing about of the creation again when they see the first creation. And it is most strange that one should disbelieve in resurrection after death when he is resurrected every day and night (ie. after sleep).” (Related by Ibn Abu Ad-Dunyaa)

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“And He it is Who originates the creation, then will repeat it (after

it has been perished), and this is easier for Him’?! Regarding this Verse, Abu Al Aaliyah said, “Repeating the creation after it has been destroyed is easier for Him than originating the creation (i.e. in the first place), though both are easy (for Allah 38).” (Related by Ibn Abu Ad-Dunyaa) Abu Hurairah reported that the Messenger of Allah 2% said, “Allah ‘Azza We-Jall (to Whom belongs Might and Majesty) said, ‘My slave has disbelieved in me, and it was not for him to do that; and he has cursed me, though it was not for him to do that. As for him disbelieving in Me, then that is his saying, ‘Then let Him return us (to life) as He originated us.’ As for his cursing Me, then that is his saying, ‘Allah has taken a child. And I am the One, the SelfSufficient Master (Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks), Who neither begets nor was begotten, and there is none coequal or comparable unto Him.” (Ahmad) And this narration is established in Bukhaaree and Muslim.

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Also in. Bukhaaree and Muslim is the story of the man who ordered his childven to burn him and then to scatter half of his ashes on land and half of them in the sea. He said, ‘If Allah will achieve power over me, He will punish me with a punishment that He will not inflict on anyone else from all of creation.” That is because he had not saved for his meeting with Allah a single good deed. So when he died, his children did as he had commanded. Allah $¢ ordered the land, and it gathered all it had of him, and He # ordered the sea and it gathered all it had of him ~ and then the man was standing. His Lord said to him, ‘What made you do that? He said, ‘I feared you, and You know best.’ The Messenger of Allah #¢ said, ‘And He # forgave him.’

Saaleh Al-Mizzee said, “In the middle of the day, I entered the graveyard. I looked at the graves, and they were like a group of silent people. I said, ‘How perfect Allah is! Who will bring you back to life and resurrect you after a long period of decomposition?’ A caller called out to me from behind those holes (in the ground), saying, ‘O Saaleh:

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“And among His Signs is that the heaven and the earth stand by His Command, then afterwards when He will call you by single call, behold, you will come out from the earth (Le. from your graves for reckoning and recompense)”

Saaleh said, “By Allah, I then fell down unconscious.”

The Day Of Resurrection Is The Day That The Trumpet Will Be Blown, For The Resurrection Of Bodies From Their Graves, And That Will Be On A Friday

Abu Hurairah related that the Messenger of Allah 2% said, “The best day that the sun shined upon is Friday: in it, Adam was created; on it, he was made to descend (from Paradise); on it, his repentance was accepted; on it, he died; on it, the Hour will arrive. On Friday, from the morning until the rising of the sun, every animal is waiting

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apprehensively, fearing the Hour, except for jinn and mankind. On Friday, there is an hour wherein no Muslim slave (of Allah) coincides with it, by praying and asking something of Allah, except that Allah gives it to him.” (Related by Imam Maalik ibn Anas) Abu Daawood related it as well, and the above phrasing is his. AtTirmidhee and An-Nasaaee related it as well.

The Moment When The Hour Will Arrive

Jbn ‘Umar -¢: related this narration, which he imputed to the Prophet 2: “The Hour will not arrive except in the Aadhaan.” At-Tabaree, who related this narration, said, “i.e., in the Aadhaan of Al-Fajr.”

Anas ibn Maalik % said, “Jibreel came with a shining, white mirror to the Prophet 2%. Then The Prophet #% said, ‘What is this? He said, ‘It is Friday; it has been made superior for you and your nation. The people are your followers in it — the Jews and the Christians. And there is good for you in it. In it is an hour — no believer coincides with it, by supplicating for something good, except that he is answered, And with us, it is the Day of Increase.’ The Prophet #4 said, ‘O Jibreel, and what is the Day of Increase?’ He said, ‘In AlFirdaus, your Lord has taken a valley, whose high sand exudes the fragrance of Musk. On Friday, He will make whatsoever amount He pleases of His angels to descend. Around... are Minbars upon which are the seats of the Prophets. Those Minbars are surrounded by Minbars made of gold, which are enwreathed by sapphire (or ruby) and aquamarine (a precious stone) — upon them are the martyrs and the Siddeegoon (the Truthful Ones). They will sit behind them over those high sands. Allah says, ‘I am your Lord and have made true for you my promise, so ask me, and I will give you.’ They say, ‘O Lord, we ask You Your Good Pleasure (i.e. that You be pleased with us).’ He says, ‘I am indeed pleased with you, but whatsoever you desire (you will have) and with me is even more.’ They love Friday for the good that their Lord gives them on that day. It is the day on which He 4é Istawaa (rose over) the Throne (in a manner that suits His Majesty). On Friday, Adam was created, and on it, the Hour will arrive.” Muhammad ibn Idrees Ash-Shaafi’ce related this narration in his Musnad.