Part 60

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“(It will be said to the sinners): “Indeed you were heedless of this”

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“Now We have removed your covering, and sharp is your sight this Day!”

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In effect, the angel is saying, ‘This one that I have brought is the one that I was appointed to.’ Then Allah ## will say to both angels — the one who is steering and the one who is bearing witness:

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“(And it will be said): “Both of you throw (Order from Allah to the two angels) into Hell, every stubborn disbeliever (in the Oneness of Allah, in His Messengers, etc.), “Hinderer of good, transgressor, doubter, Who set up another ilah (god) with Allah, then (both of you) cast him in the severe torment.” His companion (Satan - devil) will say: “Our Lord! I did not push him to transgress, (in disbelief, oppression, and evil deeds) but he was himself in error far astray.” Allah will say: “Dispute not in front of Me, [had already, in advance, sent you the threat. The Sentence comes from Me cannot be changed, and | am not unjust (to the least) to the slaves.” On the Day when We will say to Hell: “Are you filled?” It will say: “Are there any more (to come)?”

Some Of What The Haughty Ones Will Be Rewarded With On The Day Of Resurrection

“Amr ibn Shw’aib related from his father from his grandfather that the Prophet #8 said, “On the Day of Resurrection, the haughty ones will be raised like small ants (or atoms) but in the forms of people. All small things will rise above them. Then they will enter a prison from the Hellfire; it is called Boolas. The fire of AlIsaar will rise

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above them. Then they will be made to drink the sweat and pus matter of the inhabitants of the Hellfire.” (Ahmad) At-Tirmidhee and An-Nisaaee related the same through a different narration, and AtTirmidhee said, “Hasan.”

Abu Hurairah related that the Messenger of Allah 3 said, “On the Day of Resurrection, the haughty ones will be raised in the forms of tiny ants.” This narration is related by Al-Haafiz Abu Bakr AlBazzaar from Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmaan Al-’Ugailee. And Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmaan alone related it at his level in the chain.

“Umraan ibn Husain a related that when the Messenger of Allah #¢ was on one of his journeys, his Companions traveling with him became close to one another. Then the Prophet 2% raised his voice with these two Verses:

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“O mankind! Fear your Lord and be dutiful to Him! Verily, the earthquake of the Hour (of Judgment) is a terrible thing. The Day you shail see it, every nursing mother will forget her nursling, and every pregnant one will drop her load, and you shall see mankind as in a drunken state, yet they will not be drunken, but severe will be the Torment of Allah,"

When the Prophet's companions heard that, they urged their mounts forward, knowing that he was at the point of saying something. When they all came to be around him, he #% said, “Do you know which day that is? It is the day that Adam will call out and his Lord will call out to him, saying, ‘O Adam, bring out the group of the Hellfire” He 2 will say, ‘O my Lord, and what is the group of the Hellfire?’ He # will say, ‘From every 1000 (people), 999 to the Hellfire and one to Paradise,” His Companions remained motionless (feeling that chances of being saved on the Day of Resurrection were slim); you would not have seen a visible smiling tooth on any of them. When the Prophet 2% saw that, he 2% said,

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“Know and rejoice, for by the One Who has the soul of Muhammad in His Hand, you are with two created beings (two peoples), who always increase anything that they are with: Yajooj and Majooj (Gog and Magog) Know and rejoice, for by He Who has the soul of Muhammad in His Hand, among people you are no more (in terms of numbers) than a mark on the side of a camel and a small spot (the size of a coin) on the arm of an animal.” Both At-Tirmidhee and AnNisaaee related this narration, and the former said, “Hasan sahih.”

Different State Of Earth

When people will rise from their graves, they will find the earth to be upon a different state than the one they had previously known: the mountains will be crushed and their peaks will be no longer. Its rivers will have ceased, its trees will be destroyed, and its seas will be aflame. All will be leveled, with its cities and towns being no longer. It will have shaken its tremors, and it will have expelled its burdens. And man will say, “What is the matter with it?” The same can be said for the sky, which will be cleft asunder. And the Angels will be surrounding its sides. The sun and moon will be eclipsed; nay, they will have lost their light, both gathered in one place. Then they will be Kuwwirat (wound round, both losing their light). Then they will be thrown — as is mentioned in a hadith which we will relate — into the fires, as if they are two oxen that are slaughtered. Abu Bakr ibn ‘Tyaash related that fbn ‘Abbaas 4 said, “They will come out, and then look at the earth; they will see a different earth from the one they were accustomed to. Then they will look at the people and see them to be different from the people they had mown.” Then Ibn ‘Abbaas 4 illustrated that point with the saying of the poet:

‘And people are not the people they were accustomed to,

And the abode is not the abode I had known.’

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“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,"

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“Then on that Day shall the (Great) Event befall, and the heaven will split asunder, for that Day it (the heaven will be frail (weak), and torn up, and the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them. That Day shall you be brought to Judgment, not a secret of you will be hidden,”

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is Nagee (reddened in a fire); and there is no landmark for anyone (no trace or mark left from their previous abodes).” (Muslim) Muhammad ibn Qais and Sa’eed ibn Jubair said, “The earth is changed to white bread; the believer will eat from it from underneath his feet.” Al“Amash related that Ibn Mas’ood a said, “On the Day of Resurrection, the earth in its entirety is fire, and Paradise is behind it — its Kawaa’ib and glasses will be seen. People will be bridled by sweat: it will reach their faces, but they will not have yet reached the accountability.”

‘Saisha % said, “O Messenger of Allah, the day wherein the earth will be changed for another earth and the same for the sky — where will the people be?” He #¢ said, “This is something that no one from my nation asked before you. The people will be on the Siraat.” (Ahmad) Ahmad alone related this narration.

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“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.” ‘The Prophet 2 said, “At that juncture, people will be on the bridge of (ie., over) the Hellfire; the angels will be standing and saying, ‘Our Lord, safety; Our Lord, safety. There will be male and females slipping on it.” With its chain, this hadith is Ghareeb, and none from the Six related it.