The Beginning and the End Episode 20 What Happens After Death

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*The Beginning and the End*

*Episode 20*

*What Happens After Death*

After death one would be resurrected, and the records would be handed out. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

That is because Allah: He is the Truth, and it is He Who gives life to the dead, and it is He who is able to do all things. [22:6]

The unbelievers throughout the ages disbelieve in Resurrection and handing out of records. This is not a new thing. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

The disbelievers pretend that they will never be resurrected (for the Account). Say (O Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)): Yes! By my Rubb, you will certainly be resurrected, then you will be informed of (and recompensed for) what you did; and that is easy for Allah. [64:7]

They try their best to lead men astray and to make them reject the fact that they will be resurrected after death. Allah (Sub-hānallah wata'aala) says: 

Does he promise you that when you have died and have become dust and bones,, you shall come out alive [resurrected]? Far, very far is that which you are promised! [23:35-6]

They deem their life and death to be mere facts of nature and do not realize that they (life and death) are creations like themselves. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

And they say: ‘There is nothing but our life of this world, we die and we live and nothing destroys us except Ad-Dahr [the time].’ And they have no knowledge of it, they only conjecture. [45:24]

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Some even sought impossible evidences in order to believe. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Verily, these (Quraish) people are saying: ‘There is nothing but our first death, and we shall not be resurrected. Then bring back our fore-fathers, if you speak the truth!’ [44:34-7]

Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) refutes them by saying: 

And they say: ‘When we are bones and fragments[destroyed], should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation?’ * Say (O Muhammad ()): ‘Be you stones or iron. 

* Or some created thing that is yet greater (or harder) in your breasts [thoughts to be resurrected, even then you shall be resurrected].’ Then, they will say: ‘Who shall bring us back (to life)?’ Say: ‘He Who created you first!’ Then, they will shake their heads at you and say: ‘When will that be?’ Say: ‘Perhaps it is near!’ *

 On the Day when He will call you, and you will answer (His Call) with (words of) His Praise and Obedience, and you will think that you 

have stayed (in this world) but a little while! [17:49-52]

They reject and belie the Day of Requital. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Those who disbelieve say: ‘The Hour will not come to us.’ Say: ‘Yes, by my Rubb, it will come to you.’ (Allah is) the All-Knower of the unseen, not even the weight of an atom (or a small ant) or less than that or greater, escapes from 

His Knowledge in the heavens or in the earth, but it is in a Clear Book [al-Lawh al-Mahfoodh]. That He may recompense those who believe (in Islam) and do righteous good deeds. 

Those, theirs is forgiveness and a generous provision (in Jannah). [34:3-5]

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On that Day, Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) will resurrect the entire creation. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

The creation of you all and the resurrection of you all are only as (the creation and resurrection of) a single person. Verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer. [31:28]

Allah will gather them all together on that Day, the Day of Recompense. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Say (O Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)): ‘(Yes) verily, those of old, and 

those of later times. All will surely be gathered together for the appointed Meeting of a known Day.’ [56:49-50]

All of creation shall be resurrected on that Day. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

And indeed, We know the first generations of you who had passed away, and indeed, We know the present generations of you (O mankind), and also those who will come afterwards. [15:24]

Allah will judge all of mankind accordingly; if they did good, they would receive a reward, and if they did evil they would be punished. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

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. And Allah warns you against Himself [i.e. His Punishment] and Allah is full of Kindness to the (His) slaves. [3:30]

Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) also says: 

On the Day when Allah will resurrect them all together [i.e. the Day of Resurrection] and inform them of what they did. Allah has kept account of it, while they have forgotten 

it. And Allah is Witness over all things. [58:6] 

On that great day, humans will disown their closest and most beloved relations. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Then when there comes as-Saakhkhah [the Day of Resurrection’s second blowing of Trumpet], * That Day shall a man flee from his brother. *

 And from his mother and his father. *

 And from his wife and his children. *

Everyman that Day will have enough to make him careless of others. [80:33-7]

When evildoers see the punishment with their own eyes, they would wish that they could ransom themselves from the Fire with the most beloved people to them. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Though they shall be made to see one another [(i.e. on the Day of Resurrection), there will be none but see his father, children and relatives, but he will neither speak to them nor 

will ask them for any help)] - the mujrim [criminal, sinner, disbeliever, etc.] would desire to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by his children. *

 And his wife and his brother. *

 And his kindred who sheltered him. *

And all that are in the earth, so that it might save him. [70:11-4]

That Day will come to pass; no one can ransom himself nor will there be bartering. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

Verily, those who disbelieve, if they had all that is in the earth, and as much again therewith to ransom themselves thereby from the torment on the Day of Resurrection, it would never be accepted of them, and theirs would be a 

painful torment. [5:36]

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The only thing accepted on that Day is one’s righteous deeds. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

And it is not your wealth, nor your children that bring you nearer to Us [i.e. pleases Allah], but only he (will please Us) who believes (in the Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds; as for such, there will be twofold reward for what they did, and they will reside in the high dwellings (of Jannah) in peace and security. [34:37]

On that Day: 

no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good [by performing deeds of righteousness] through his Faith. [6:158]

All material things which man used to seek help with will come to an end. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

And truly you have come unto Us alone (without wealth, companions or anything else) as We created you the first time. You have left behind you all that which We had bestowed on you. [6:94]

The only thing that remains are the deeds which he did in this life; whether evil or good. Allah (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) says: 

So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom (or small ant) shall see it. *

 And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant) shall see it. [99:7-

8]