Part 70

_____________________________________________________________ __________ whoever denies the Resurrection is an unbeliever due to the Saying of Allaah, the Most High, "The Mushriks say: 'There is no resurrection after death, and we will not be restored to life after passing away/ So if you could see, O Muhammad, when they stand to be judged by Allaah on the Day of Resurrection and it is said to them: 'Is not this resurrection, that you used to deny, the truth?!' They will say: 'Yes, by Allaah.' So He will say: 'Then taste the punishment for that which you used to deny." [surah al-An'aam (6):29-30] "Woe that Day to the deniers, those who deny the Day of Resurrection: and none deny it except one who transgresses and sins against his Lord in his words and deeds. If Allaah*s signs sent down in His Book are recited to him, he says: 'It is just fables written down from the folk of old.' No indeed! Rather the Qur'aan is the Speech of Allaah and His Revelation sent down to His Messenger, and it is just that their hearts are covered and blinded by the blackness of repeated sins and evil deeds. No indeed it is not as those deniers of the Resurrection claim! On that Day they will certainly be prevented from seeing their Lord, then they will enter and be continually roasted in Hell-Fire. Then it will be said to them: This is the punishment that you were told of and which you used to deny," [surah al-Mutaffifeen (83):10-17] "Rather they disbelieve in the Resurrection and for those who disbelieve in the Resurrection We have prepared a blazing Fire." [surah al-Furqaan (25):11] "And those who disbelieve and deny Allaah's signs and deny the meeting with Him on the Day of Resurrection - they will have no hope of My Mercy in the Hereafter, and they will receive an excruciating punishment." [surah al-'Ankaboot (29):23] The Shaykh, rahimahullaah, also quotes as proof the Saying of Allaah, the Most High, "The Unbelievers claim that Allaah will not resurrect them after death. Say to them, O Muhammad, by my Lord you will certainly be resurrected from you graves, and then you will be informed of the deeds which you did in the world. That is easy for Allaah." [surah at-Taghaabun (64):7] As for the convincing proof for those deniers, then it is as follows: (1) The Resurrection is a matter that is very widely and frequently reported from the prophets and messengers in the Revealed Books, and mentioned in the Rev elation sent down, and was accepted by the followers of the messengers. So how can you deny it whilst you accept those reports that reach you from an ancient philosopher, or founder of some ideology or theory, and yet such reports do not reach the level of the former either in strength of the transmission, or in the testi mony of reality in its favour?!! (2) That the Resurrection is a matter whose possibility is witnessed to by the intel lect. This is from a number of angles: (i) Nobody will deny having been created after having been nothing; and that they came newly into existence after not existing. So the One Who created and brought him about after his having been nothing will, without doubt, be able to restore him to existence again. Just as Allaah, the Most High, says "He it is Who originates the creation, then causes it to pass away, then brings them back to life, and that is even easier for Him," [surah ar-Room (30):27] "We will return the creation on the Day of Resurrection, in the state in which We created them - barefoot, naked and untiltum-cised - that is a true promise that We shall certainly fulfil." [surah al-Ambiyaa (21): 104] (ii) Nobody will deny the greatness of the creation of the heavens and the earth due to their huge size and wondrous construction. So it is even more fitting that He who created them both will be fully able to create and then resurrect man. Allaah, the Most High, says, "The origination and creation of the heaven and earth is something greater, O people, then the creation of man." [SoorahGhaafir(40):57] "Do those who deny that Allaah will resurrect the dead not know that it is Allaah who created the seven heavens and the earth from nothing, and was not wearied by creating them. Will He not then be fully able to resurrect the dead?! Yes, He is able to, and able to do all things He wills." [surah al-Ahqaaf (46):33] "Is not He who created the seven heavens and the earth able to create the like of you from scattered bones after your death?!