Day of Judgement

A—h says in the Quran:

“Friends on that day will be foes to another..”

What does this mean?

It means that on this day when every person will be brought back to life, not one person will be worried about another person. You will not think about anyone else but yourself. You will be running around, not knowing where to go and what to do.

Every person will be gathered together, with all their good and bad deeds apparent. We will be all questioned for our action. This will take around 50,000 years, but a Hadith states that the time will pass quickly for the Believers. How quickly? Around the time it takes to pray two rakaats.

How we have behaved in this world will be how we will be raised on this day. For example, A—h has mentioned in the Quran, that the one who did not believe will be raised blind. This is because he was blind to the truth and did not pay attention to the signs that were placed for him by A—h.

Whereas a believer will be raised with light emitting from his body.

On this day, the sun will be a mile over a person’s head. Only SEVEN people will be granted A—h’s shade:

1.      A just leader

2.      A young man or woman who was raised to believe in A—h

3.      A man whose heart was joined to the Masjid

4.      Two people who loved each other for the sake of A—h

5.      A man who refused his temptations out of the fear of A—h

6.      A man who remembered A—h alone and cried

7.      A person who gave charity such that his right hand doesn’t know what his left hand spent

People will go around asking other people to intercede on their behalf, but everyone will be so ashamed of their own actions that they will refuse. Only Prophet (SAW) will be able to intercede and then the questioning will begin. But before that, we will be clothed and Jahannam will be brought in front of us. 70,000 angels will each be pulling a rope, attached to Jahannam. Then only will the Judgement start.

A—h describes the Day of Judgement in what could be translated as:

“On the Day when every person will be confronted with all the good he has done, and all the evil he has done, he will wish that there were a great distance between him and his evil.” (3:30)

A—h means that at this moment, our deeds will be placed in front of us.

Imam Bukhari and Muslim (RH) have included the Hadith where Ayesha (RA) reports that Prophet (SAW) said:

“Destroyed is the one who has his account settled on the Day of Resurrection”.

Ayesha (RA) replied: "Oh Messenger of A—h, didn’t A—h say that he who is given his records in his right hand soon will his account be taken by easy reckoning’" (85:7 & 8)

The Prophet (SAW) replied: “This is just skimming through the deeds; and destroyed is the one who has his account settled on the Day of Judgement”.

There will be two different ways that A—h will hold people accountable for their deeds:

1.      In the first way, A—h will quickly and easily skim through the people’s deeds and will allow them to enter Paradise safely. Those who believe strongly and with sincerity will enter Paradise in this manner.

2.      In the second way, A—h will discuss the people’s deeds in depth and in detail; He will then hold them to account for all their wrongdoings. Then A—h will send then away to the Fire of Hell. These are the disbelievers, hypocrites, those weak in their faith or those who were insincere in their belief and worship will enter the Fire in this manner.

We will be asked on the Day of Judgement regarding 5 things:

The prophet (SAW) has mentioned in a Hadith that we will be questioned about 5 things on the Day of Judgement:

“The son of Adam will not pass away until he is asked about five things; how he lived his life, how he utilised his youth, with what means did he earn his wealth, how he spent his wealth and what did he do with his knowledge”

(Tirmidhi)

May the Almighty grant us the ability to take account of our own deeds before the reckoning of the Hereafter arrives. Ameen..