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After a period of fortyit is not known whether it is forty hours, days or yearsa second Hom will be blown and the people will be resurrected: I) J ,,,. ,,,. '.J ,,,. J ""' 1;iu m .:::._,ॠ ୨) , 11 .!.J\õö1 :÷ ø 1;G )ù1 J Llj ॰ ,.. \ - : ,; (..$' k ,.. '-' ,,,. \ . k ,.. / \.._.,.. "' ""' ,,. ॾ 0_,L;'..J1 úûj J:;-)T üj d Ie \j:Ll u-: (.'".୩ य़ l¤T"֗ "And the Trumpet will be blown [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?' [It will be said to them,] 'This is what the Most Beneficent [Allah] has promised, and the Messengers spoke the truth"' (Ya-Seen 5 1-52). According to ibn Uthaimeen, 1 belief in the last day encompasses three aspects. First is belief in the Resurrection: after the Second Blowing of the Hom, the people will be resurrected in front of Allah. They shall be naked, barefoot and uncircumcised. 2 Allah says, J. ;;Z i!.. ,,,. w J .,. ,.. ,... .,. ,,,. ୧ ন GI "L.:l¥ lýj JX० फ़ Jjt Ut+ W-- ,..,,,. k ,,,. ,.: "As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it. [It is] a promise binding on Us. Truly, We shall do it" (al-Anbiyaa 104). The resurrection is going to be in the same body that the person had in this worldly life. Ibn Uthaimeen has pointed out the wisdom and importance of this: "If it were a new creation, it would mean that the body that performed the sins in this world would be safe from any punishment. To come with a new body and have that body punished goes against what is just. Hence, the texts and rational argument indicate that the [person] resurrected is not a new [creation] but a return [of the old creation]."3 He also points out that Allah has the ability to recreate the bodies even after they have disintegrated. Humans may not be able to understand how exactly that is possiblelike so many other aspects that humans cannot fathombut Allah has stated it and a believer knows full well that it is true and well within Allah's ability to do so. The second aspect is belief in the accounting or reckoning of the deeds and the reward/punishment for those deeds. This aspect is mentioned and stressed in numerous places in the Quran. Here are a couple of examples: 1 Cf., Ibn Uthaimeen, Sharh Usool al-/maan, pp. 40-41 . 2 As the Prophet (peace be upon him) stated in a hadith recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim. 3 Ibn Uthaimeen, Majmoo, vol. 3, p. 1 74. Hadith #2: The Hadith of Jibreel "Verily, to Us will be their return. Then, verily, upon Us will be their reckoning" (al-Ghaashiyah 25-26). J.tt ,,, ..,. / .,. ,,. °' J .,. otb 01j I {:୤ .. ढ़'_ It:/୥ ")\..J -a:1:;;1\ _,.j.;J ..k:...aJI j l ज़J  / / .... ,,.. ,,.. \..... . / / !i. / / I : -; / / ୦/ I/ "'/1 J / .,, ., Ñ A' JI -;, ? 4 / . ' w ୡ· ୢ . " ! . . ࣇ / " " • J • " :T" if. . ..... . ... ,,.. -;. / ; / "And We shall set up balances of justice on the Day of Resurrection, then none will be dealt with unjustly in anything. And if there be the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it. And sufficient are We as those who reckon" (al-Anbiyaa 47). Allah has made it clear that all deeds will be weighed on the Day of Judgment. 1 Allah says, .,.,., .... ,,.. J ,,.. ,,.. (. .,. ,., "' ,., ȑ o8I T ୣjt; .. j 9 : ;I Lj.i J.i)}lj ग़ ,.. \. ; / 1- ; .... ,,,. ,,,. 0 J ,,,. / J ,,.. J -;. Ct_ J ,,.. ,,.. 2,., ,,,. ,.. 0 : .... .J. J /,,,. .,. ::I ..... .,, ,,,. / 1·:'1 ?I IJ_r,->- o:!::UI @JLi ..o._:.-1.ड़'y ९if) / -'- 1i.:.: u८ "And the weighing on that Day will be the true weighing. So as for those whose scale [of good deeds] will be heavy, they will be the successful. And as for those whose scale will be light, those are they who will lose their own selves because they denied and rejected Our Signs" (al-Araaf 8-9). Once again, some people might ask, "Actions are like what the philosophers call accidents, without weight or mass, how can they be weighed?" The answer is that Allah has the ability to weigh them. No human has any conception of the Scales themselves that will be used on that day, not to speak of the weights of particular deeds. Allah will weigh them and He is just.