The World and After by the Enlightenment of Qur'an and Sunnah
6 billion people...
who are living all around the world,
from the east to the west, spread out on millions of kilometers,
with different religions, languages and races.
While some sleep and dream in one side of the world,
the others have living nightmares.
While some run after their dreams with the sunset,
the others wake up to a new day of war.
In some places are natural catastrophes, in the other celebrities.
In one place is a cruel war, in another place is a peace meeting.
While some struggle in starving, others enjoy the life in many ways.
In one country is starving,
but in another is the diet a business.
Some get born as a prince, while some wake up to life in a mosque yard.
While the western world - which is 15% - tastes the cream of the world,
the major part is looking forward.
Yes, the world is a strange and ironic place.
And the reason for that is the human.
The human is the actually guilty.
And their infinite seek after the reign.
And the philosophy, which legalizes everything to live.
And the ego, which always requires more and more.
The world is beautiful, living too.
Worldly goods are beautiful, even if not more as the life is.
Short said the life is nice, even if it will be ended.
What relates us so much to the worldly life?
Is it the past or the future?
What we've already earned or what we look forward to?
The won or the lost?
Is there anything which doesn't get ruined?
First of all we get ruined after our desires.
We run after the inner desires.
And that desire turns to a lifelong chase.
If lucky we get it, but than we fear about losing it.
The joy about the winning will overshadowed by the fear to lose.
There is sometimes a moment of pause to overlook the situation, because we got tired.
We ask: "What's the meaning?"
It's worthless for some of us to ask: "Why?"
Because there is neither enough time nor the courage for anew.
And for some, it is insulting to confess what all we have utilized and destroyed.
And for some, there is no way out anymore, because of the divine seal.
However we lose time because of every effort.
Eventually we got the bill for those.
However any effort is meaningless because of the experiences, good or bad.
Those took something away from us, if it was worth or not.
We don't mean, that it is wrong to effort for this world.
We are anyway responsible to effort for outlasting and development for community.
Besides, to enjoy the worldly goods in the allowed frame and
to work for allowed goals or
let's say to enjoy what we've earned in this world,
is our God given right.
The point in here is the goal and the limit.
Abu Barsa (r.a.) reports,
Prophet (s.a.w.) said:
"Anyone can get away without answering four questions:
Where he used his life?
What he did?
Where he earned his property from and how?
And where he aged?"
If we look at our lives, we see that the major efforts are for satisfaction.
And mostly we don't manage to limit and regulate those efforts.
Because our desires overwhelm us and cause to exaggerate the limits.
The ego takes us away, that we begin something, without ending the other.
We lose our lives - which are unrepeatable - after rather minor things.
We refuse or give up many things without any regulations and convert our allowed lives to undesirable.
We give our bodies and souls to the hand of the ego,
because of those desires, which are gifts.
We get under the control of own egos, otherwise said we make ourselves to gods.
Our holy Lord says in Ali Imran 14 and Al-Jathiyah 23:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"The love of desires, of women and sons and hoarded treasures of gold and silver and
well bred horses and cattle and tilt, is made to seem fair to men;
this is the provision of the life of this world;
and Allah is He with Whom is the good goal (of life)."
"Have you then considered him who takes his low desire for his god, and Allah has made him err having knowledge and
has set a seal upon his ear and his heart and put a covering upon his eye.
Who can then guide him after Allah?
Will you not then be mindful?"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Our egos are always and everywhere present in our lives.
It ruins our live and we've to pay for it.
We don't appreciate the worth of our lives, we handle it as very cheap.
Most of us think, let's live while we are already here.
We know there is only one life for us, but don't care.
Why is there a life? So why are we? What will happen? We don't ask.
We didn't create neither the life nor the death.
If we would created it, there wouldn't be a death.
The period between life or death wasn't chosen by us neither.
It's also not possible that it accidentally happened.
And why is it so?
Did we ever thought?
We didn't choose to exist, our desire wasn't even to mention, but we exist.
We also don't want to die, but we do and will.
The most two important points in our lives are outside of our power.
There is no chance to not existing or to choose a time or place.
Our freedom is completely limited in such most important points.
We are agree, even if we don't want.
Every thing's past is a requirement for another in the universe, but the exception of Allah.
Let's say, the reason for the others.
Whatever it might be, it depends on the past existence.
For example, would yesterday not be there, today wouldn't be there neither, or tomorrow.
Otherwise said, death depends on life and life depends on to get born.
Life is the result of to get born, death is the result of living and afterlife is the result of death.
This is the exactly journey of mankind.
The opponents - which reject this truth - have to answer the questions about:
life, death, people, plants, animals, air, water, earth, sun system, infinite universe.
They need to explain that, how and why those exist?
Why do the people reject the truth?
Because of their correct theories?
The pride?
Or because of the egos as their gods?
Or because of the way of life as their god?
Or the greed for their own benefit?
Or because, they run away from the truth?
Or because the truth requires responsibilities?
Or is it too difficult to admit own faults?
Whatever it might be.
One or more of those mentioned reasons.
Or even other reasons. Would that change the truth?
Or would that change the end?
Anyway, every human will live the provided period,
without a choice like as to get born and die.
And once, he will have to answer about his entire life.
Our holy Lord says in Al-An'am 73, Ar-Rum 43, 60, Al-Jathiyah 27-29, Qaf 41-45:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And He it is Who has created the heavens and the earth with truth, and on the day He says: Be, it is.
is word is the truth, and His is the kingdom on the day when the trumpet shall be blown;
the Knower of the unseen and the seen; and He is the Wise, the Aware."
"Then turn thy face straight to the right religion before there come from Allah the day which cannot be averted; on that day they shall become separated."
Therefore be patient; surely the promise of Allah is true and
let not those who have no certainty hold you in light estimation."
"And Allah’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth;
and on the day when the hour shall come to pass, on that day shall they perish who say false things.
And you shall see every nation kneeling down;
every nation shall be called to its book: today you shall be rewarded for what you did.
This is Our book that speaks against you with justice;
surely We wrote what you did"
"And listen on the day when the crier shall cry from a near place
The day when they shall hear the cry in truth;
that is the day of coming forth.
Surely We give life and cause to die,
and to Us is the eventual coming;
The day on which the earth shall cleave asunder under them, they will make haste;
that is a gathering together easy to Us.
We know best what they say, and you are not one to compel them;
therefore remind him by means of the Qur'an who fears My threat."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
An agreement was made between Allah and mankind in heaven, long before the living on the earth.
The mankind made an agreement about the responsibilities for living in this world.
It's known as "Qalu Bala" and we don't remember when, where and how it was.
But we know, like every agreement it is, that agreement is also compulsory.
That's why, there is a hidden side in our bodies, souls and hearts which is influencing to our lives.
Our holy Lord says about this in Al-Araf 172. and 173. Verses:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And when your Lord brought forth from the children of Adam, from their backs, their descendants, and made them bear witness against their own souls:
Am I not your Lord?
They said: Yes! we bear witness.
Lest you should say on the day of resurrection: Surely we were heedless of this.
Or you should say: Only our fathers associated others (with Allah) before, and we were an offspring after them:
Wilt Thou then destroy us for what the vain doers did?"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... Once upon a time the people (souls) made an agreement for the worldly living, in heaven.
Every soul was gathered together at the same time and place with their intelligence and awareness.
And they promised to not associate others with Allah or recognizing other gods, before Allah.
This agreement is provided again in the Qur'an as a reminder for the mankind.
Because of this agreement is everyone full responsible for the deeds.
That's why they are actually agree from the beginning.
Because of this reminder can anyone escape from the repayment, because they wouldn't know.
"We don't remember, we aren't aware. How can the agreement be compulsory?"
"Is that alright?" we could ask.
The answer is...
Some information and senses are already in us,
those properties are in our consciousness and can't disappear.
These potential information in consciousness become an awareness by discovering, feeling and inner influences.
And as they appear by outer influences in our daily deeds, we know that those exist.
Consciousness is like the feelings as hate, love, jealous, fun, horror, sadness and others,
which appear because of the outer influences.
It's important to mention it as an example...
Between the 31. and 39. verses of Al-Baqara in the Qur'an is Adam (a.s.) and his creation mentioned.
Allah asks Adam to tell, his God given knowledge to the Angels, which those didn't know about.
And He commends Adam to tell the names of the things.
And Adam would begin to tell what he learned from Allah.
The Angels were amazed and said: "We don't know anything, but You thought us".
The amazing knowledge was, which is already in our consciousness.
Even we don't remember, the agreement is in our heart and consciousness.
And it's still there as a potential source.
Why we don't remember?
If we would continuously remember it, examination and judgement wouldn't make sense.
The reason for the creation wouldn't be meaningful.
The mankind is confronted to a righteous examination.
Everyone is already born with the potential to believe and can imagine the results.
Because the man has become all the necessary knowledge on his way.
They have their life for free - which is long enough - and the freedom to choose.
Religion and messengers were sent to educate, what they need to know.
Besides, there is also an ongoing divine support to believe and to commit good deeds.
We always confront the divine guidance, which is called "Hidayah (guidance)".
There are some irregular but often happening events.
Like to meet someone, an event, a book, an image, a voice, a discussion or a reminder.
Those are all simple events, which wouldn't be recognized while it happens.
The time flows and once you are somewhere.
You are suddenly involved in something.
What happened? Why am I here? You ask...
And you think about your history.
When you check over, you see a simple influence was something which changed your life.
These are rather fundamentally changing events, which everyone confronts and may be later realizes.
It's the guidance, which is from Allah the most Holy.
Whoever had such an experience, would know what's meant.
It happens also reversed.
You are under influences.
And you are in a moment of choice.
But this time, it's in the reverse direction to a mistake.
Most people make choices - which will destroy them - in situations like this.
But it's not from God, but from Devil (Shaitan) or the ego.
Whoever had such an experience, would also know what is meant.
Our holy Lord says about the guidance in
Al-Baqara 213, Ali Imran 85-86, An-Nisa 137, Al-An'am 125, At-Touba 115, An-Nahl 9, Al-Israa 15, Al-Qasas 56:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"(All) people are a single nation;
so Allah raised prophets as bearers of good news and as warners,
and He revealed with them the Book with truth, that it might judge between people in that in which they differed;
and none but the very people who were given it differed about it after clear arguments had come to them, revolting among themselves;
so Allah has guided by His will those who believe to the truth about which they differed and
Allah guides whom He pleases to the right path."
"And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him,
and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.
How shall Allah guide a people who disbelieved after their believing and (after) they had borne witness
that the Messenger was true and clear arguments had come to them;
and Allah does not guide the unjust people."
"Surely (as for) those who believe then disbelieve, again believe and again disbelieve,
then increase in disbelief, Allah will not forgive them
nor guide them in the (right) path."
"Therefore (for) whomsoever Allah intends that He would guide him aright, He expands his breast for Islam,
and (for) whomsoever He intends that He should cause him to err, He makes his breast strait and narrow as though he were ascending upwards;
thus does Allah lay uncleanness on those who do not believe."
"It is not (attributable to) Allah that He should lead a people astray after He has guided them;
He even makes clear to them what they should guard against; surely Allah knows all things."
"And upon Allah it rests to show the right way,
and there are some deviating (ways);
and if He please He would certainly guide you all aright."
"Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright;
and whoever goes astray, to its detriment only does he go astray:
nor can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another,
nor do We chastise until We raise a messenger."
"Surely you cannot guide whom you love,
but Allah guides whom He pleases,
and He knows best the followers of the right way."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... There might be some, who don't accept the rules.
But those who refuse that, accept actually the man made rules in this world,
which are sometimes unreasonable, unnecessary or they wouldn't even informed about those rules.
What's necessary for a righteous exam by a teacher?
First one, to examine the student about a stated topic.
Second one, to judge the results as fair as possible.
What's necessary for a student?
To be aware of the exam and study for it how it's needed.
Could the student say: "I didn't know about it", "I couldn't learn", "The exam is unnecessary".
Could he get away with these excuses?
Or could he claim that the exam wasn't fair?
Or could his denial change the results?
That could be corrected, yet.
But the exam for hereafter isn't to correct anymore, if the time is expired.
People need to know this...
Whatever they do or however they deny, they can't change the absolute way of Allah.
They can't overcome the death.
Like they couldn't stop the first creation, they won't stop the resurrection neither.
And once when they are resurrected, they won't be able to refuse the judgement.
The religion releases people to choose whatever they want to in this world.
And it's forbidden to force them.
If a person is decided to ruin himself,
it's just seen as his own decision.
Which means they are permitted to believe or deny in this life.
As long as they live in this world, they can choose whatever they want to.
If they mean that all the creation and balance is for nothing, death is the end,
so they can deny, don't believe or revolt against Allah.
They have this freedom.
There is a last important point about this topic.
Existence is holy Allah's,
He creates and rules,
He is free to choose and do,
He is the One, Who doesn't need to answer anything,
the creation, wasting, command and everything is under His power!
Let's leave the topics which the people can't avoid, including death.
And let's find an example, which anyone could claim, that there would be a solution.
It should be something, which would show us clearly, that people are helpless against God.
Let's ask...
If the sun would explode, could mankind avoid it?
Let's ask another question...
Even if Allah wouldn't be rightfully and mercifully, and would have made unacceptable rules,
who could stand against Him?
If He wouldn't give us the opportunity for the paradise,
and would only make us suffer,
and would have created us as an unknown thing , to live in worse conditions,
who could stop Him?
Anyone couldn't stop Him!
The knowledge about the hereafter was from the first to current people, sometimes right, but almost false interpreted.
And was an influencing scale for their way of life.
The knowledge came with the first human and messenger Adam (a.s.).
The messengers who came after Adam repeated the unchanged message for their communities.
Those communities changed the knowledge, instead of protecting.
And changed the originality.
Every messenger was trying to correct the message, but confronted to resistance.
It's recognized, that the written history began in 3000 BC by the Sumerians in Southern Mesopotamia.
Sumerians had many writings about religion, myths, literature and trade.
They wrote their knowledge down to the tablets to preserve those.
It was possible through the discovery of those tablets to understand their religious views.
Islamic sources inform us, that Sheed (Seth) and later Idris (Enoch) came after Adam.
Prophet Idris (a.s.) is mentioned in the Qur'an, but not the events about him.
The oldest event about a relationship between a Prophet and his folk is Nuh's (Noah) in the Qur'an.
The event went on 950 years and ended by the flood catastrophe.
Everyone got perished on the earth's surface by that event, except Nuh (a.s.) and a few people who followed him.
We understand because of "a few people", that the people back then were
very fanatical by holding on to their old changed religion against the Prophet.
Most of them were such fanatically, why they refused the religion of Allah despite the 950 years.
It's discovered that Sumerians were warned to accept the monotheism, which they refused and worshipped to idols.
Qur'an confirms this and even by the Nuh's Nation the worshipping to the idols.
We know that the people then were warned about monotheism, because the Sumerian tablets.
And even despite that religious knowledge was changed, we see a similarity to the Qur'an.
Because we know very well that the knowledge about monotheism, hereafter,
paradise and hell were never changed from the first prophet Adam to the last prophet Muhammad.
One of the oldest nations the Sumerians believed in resurrection and hereafter.
The believe about the judgement was like; after passing a underground river,
they had to answer before the law court of dead.
For Sumerians was the paradise a clean, clear and healthful land,
which was called "Dilmun".
A similar believe was also in Egypt in the same era.
Their coffins had pictures about the judgement,
of weighbridges which symbolized the deeds and
fire in which the sinners would throw in.
After the believe of the Egyptians was man existing about two things.
Body and soul.
The both would have lasted even after the death.
They believed that everyone would have to answer about the deeds,
before the God Osiris' judgement, from a simple men to the king.
If the judgement decides, that one would have more good deeds as the bad ones,
he would rewarded endless,
contrariwise he would punished through wild animals and fire.
Those are the way of believe from civilized nations which lived in 3000 BC.
Those are very similar in many angles.
Actually despite the differences, those don't look like as unlike believes.
Also thereafter coming nations - even with other corruptions - had the same theological fundamentals.
Except some unpopular ideologies - which didn't based on a believe in hereafter -
was by every nation a believe in hereafter in the past.
Every sort of the theological faiths
weren't man made concepts, like some claim.
Man made part is the corrupted one.
If those were man made concepts, they couldn't have similarly bases.
Rather they would be completely opposed.
When we think how different traditions and languages neighbor states have,
as well as the theological believes had to be deeply unlike.
When we imagine how difficult the communication in the past was,
and an aboriginal community in America had a similar faith in hereafter,
like simultaneously communities in Europe or Asia, how can we accept it as a coincidence?
All the basically similar faiths - doesn't matter where or when -
shows us that every nation have got the divine message.
And the differences come because of the corruption for worldly profits.
Many prophets were sent to correct the divine message,
but the large part liked to hold on to the corrupted message.
Prophet's efforts to spread out the divine message
were almost unsuccessful.
Because, either they cared only about the own profit
or they were stubborn and ignorant.
However it's not the duty of the prophets to force their people to believe in truth,
but to tell the truth.
If Allah wanted to, there would be only a single community.
However a prophet's divine duty is just to tell the truth to their people.
Important is, that the prophets bring the divine message
to their communities in the provided period.
So might be one more condition back-filled for an upright judgement.
Our holy Lord enlightens us about this topic in
Yunus 19 and 47, An-Nahl 36, Fatir 23-24:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And people are naught but a single nation,
so they disagree;
and had not a word already gone forth from your Lord,
the matter would have certainly been decided between them in respect of that concerning which they disagree."
"And every nation had a messenger;
so when their messenger came, the matter was decided between them with justice and
they shall not be dealt with unjustly."
"And certainly We raised in every nation a messenger saying: Serve Allah and shun the Shaitan."
"You are naught but a warner.
Surely We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner;
and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
We should know define the believe in hereafter.
First of all you need to believe in a Creator, to believe in hereafter.
And for this, you need to decide between two possibilities.
As first to accept, that the universe, galaxies, sun system, atmosphere,
living creatures, humans and the required equilibrium might be just by an accident.
Despite we are convinced that the TV, phone, PC or a simple chair were never created just by an accident.
The other one is to accept that the amazing equilibrium was created by a Creator.
As like we know, that there is a plan, skill and a designer for a TV, phone, PC or a simple chair.
Almost everyone is agree that the amazing equilibrium couldn't be there without a Creator.
But something which hasn't even a possibility 1 to 1 billion; has also his followers.
How can some kind like that be? We don't understand, but it happens.
It's the beginning to believe in a Creator,
but not enough alone.
Because the faith needs to be a verification.
Most of who believe in a Creator, have doubts about the resurrection and recreation of universe.
But the universe is already created and exists right now.
The universe itself is the greatest evidence for a recreation by the Creator.
If a recreation wouldn't be possible, how could be the first creation there?
Actually every answer is in the question itself, but the ignorance makes it difficult.
And such a denial isn't anew.
The past generations denied their prophets with similar arguments too.
The best answer is again in the Qur'an.
Our holy Lord says in As-Saffat 11 and Al-Waqi'a 62:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Then ask them whether they are stronger in creation or those (others) whom We have created."
"And certainly you know the first growth, why do you not then mind?"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
To get rid of such doubts, is the very first stage to know well the Creator.
Thereafter comes to testify the oneness of the Creator, which means Tawheed (monotheism).
In this stage you need to know that you were created to worship (submission) to Allah.
And to agree that all your needs and desires would come after.
You must be aware of that; Allah sees, hears, knows what you do and even what you think.
And to accept Allah as the only one authority and ruler, and to compare none with Him,
to prefer God's will to own desires,
that good and bad everything is a part of the destiny and worshipping is only for Allah,
and that only Islam will be accepted as the religion (belief),
on judgement day to answer about all deeds,
and to verify all of those.
Also not to corrupt and mix up the belief and
to be sure about, that there isn't any third way between the belief and disbelief.
And amongst them to use the Qur'an and Sunnah as the way of life,
and to see this world as a unit for hereafter.
Our holy Lord tells in Az-Zumar 55, Az-Zukhruf 44 and Al-Ahzab 21:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And follow the best that has been revealed to you from your Lord
before there comes to you the punishment all of a sudden while you do not even perceive"
"And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people,
and you shall soon be questioned."
"Certainly you have in the Messenger of Allah an excellent exemplar
for him who hopes in Allah and the latter day and remembers Allah much."
If you drop a stone from the sky, it falls.
Everything which is lighter as than the air does fly.
Everything which is lighter as than the water does swim.
The Sun comes up due East and goes down due West.
After the day comes the night.
Every born living thing dies.
Every dead resurrects on the doomsday.
And every resurrected one will questioned.
Is it to think that a reasonable Creator would create the human and
and gave him intelligence, reasoning and power without a duty or responsibility?
Our holy Lord says in Al-Mu'minun 115:
"What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be returned to Us?"
This clarifies that mankind was created for a reason and duty, who have responsibilities.
Anyway it's the reason for, that we are confronted to the divine message.
Under all creatures is only the human responsible and has a divine duty.
That's it what makes our lives worthy and meaningful.
But some see the responsibility as a burden and something against their freedom.
Obviously who wants to believe and doesn't want, will sorted out in this point.
Who wants to be a believer, takes the responsibility and who doesn't, turns back.
Because an unbeliever wants to be unlimited in every angle.
While a believer accepts his duty and wants to be free only in divine limitations.
Yes... The short cut for an unbeliever is to deny every limitation and to refuse.
But for those who are weak in believe, is the situation different.
Because they have a faith in the heart, even not mature.
They believe, but they won't to sacrifice of their desires.
And they wish that the religion shall only be after their desires.
However they don't accept the religion as whole, but as parts.
Neither they give up here nor hereafter.
Most of them have a connection to the religion in a corrupted way and do it as tradition.
And even it's not regularly, because their way changes after place, time and conditions.
It's natural to believe so, like how they live.
Such a faith is damned to lose the respect to Allah, religion and hereafter.
Like they find a way out before the worldly troubles, so they think it would be in hereafter too.
Or with the whisper of the devil they think Allah would have mercy on them.
Or at least, it would be enough to believe in a Creator.
Or they think because of devil's deception, that their deeds were alright.
Or, believer or unbeliever doesn't matter, there couldn't be much difference in hereafter.
These are some thoughts which could be.
Those all are ignorant and unreasonable imaginations.
See what our Lord says in Al-Jathiyah 21-22, Al-Ankabut 2-5 and Luqman 33:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Nay! do those who have wrought evil deeds think that We will make them like those who believe and do good– that their life and their death shall be equal?"
Evil it is that they judge.
And Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth
and that every soul may be rewarded for what it has earned
and they shall not be wronged."
"Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be tried?
And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars.
Or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us?
Evil is it that they judge!
Whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come;
and He is the Hearing, the Knowing."
"O people! guard against (the punishment of) your Lord and dread the day
when a father shall not make any satisfaction for his son, nor shall the child be the maker of any satisfaction for his father;
surely the promise of Allah is true,
therefore let not this world’s life deceive you,
nor let the arch deceiver deceive you in respect of Allah."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Abu Said (r.a.) and Abu Huraira (r.a.) report,
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) told:
"On the judgement day, a person will be brought to Allah,
Allah the Holy: "Didn't I give you ears, eyes, properties and children?
Didn't I give the animals and plants to your control?
Didn't I give you the freedom to rule and use them?
I wonder, did you never think about the meeting with Me?"
That person will say "No!"
Allah the Holy: "I will forget you today too, as like as you forgot me in the world!"
Abu Mas'ud Al-Badri (r.a.) reports:
"One said: 'Oh Rasulullah (Messenger of God)!
Will we questioned about the era of Jahiliyya (ignorance)?'
He responded:
'Anyone will asked about the wrong deeds before the Islam, after accepting Islam and being good.
One who commits bad actions will questioned about the before and after Islam.'"
So it is... if everything would be as easy as some think,
if the people could get away with saying "We believe in God",
Messenger of Allah, the inviter to the truth, the best among people,
the mercy to the worlds, Muhammad - peace be upon him -
would he pray, fast, do jihad and sacrifice his life on the way of Allah?
Have you never been unanswered?
Were there never a moment of desperation?
You know, a moment of desperation to feel it all over your body and soul.
To miss a unique opportunity,
even to miss the most important thing and feeling the desperation,
even you would've thought about a suicide, the moment of regret and misery.
How difficult it is to resistance to such moments.
It seems to be infinite and makes the life to hell.
But eventually we forget like many other things.
God's willing the time take those away and they disappear as dust.
We know, we must forget them and bury them in our minds.
We remember them just to give advices, instead that we learn through them.
As if we experienced such moments for the others instead of ourselves.
Actually the troubles are just reminders before the day of judgement, which could be corrected.
Reminders for a day which can nothing get corrected.
Start a journey from your own regrets, desperate and experiences to the day of judgement.
Imagine, there is no way out anymore!
You can't go neither forwards nor return.
You can't neither fly to sky nor dig yourself in the ground.
You want to die, but you can't!
You want to become a soil or never to have been created.
You look out for someone you knew, but you can't find.
You wonder, when you remember your ability, function and friends.
When you take a look at them, you see they also have enough trouble.
You look after powerful people which you have flattered in the world, but they are worse.
Your father? No!
Your mother? No!
You get it, you're all alone!
Lie and deception are useless.
You want to blame others, it doesn't help.
Your challenge or excuse doesn't help neither.
Eventually you give up.
Because, neither crying nor being patient is useful. Then you see, that you're in the worst trouble.
Yes... Such a scenario is the judgement day for the sinners.
We don't know how to understand with the words or pictures.
We only know, that it will be the biggest regret, one can't even imagine.
We don't know how to explain the believers in hereafter.
But as we know, their joy will much larger than in this world what they had at all.
Aisha (r.a.) reports:
"I remembered the hell and cried. Rasulullah asked: 'Why are you crying?'
I remembered the hell, that's why. Will you remember your family on judgement day?
'In three places can't anyone remember another.
By the scale (Mizan), until knowing what's more heavy the good or bad deeds.
When the book of deeds fly around, until knowing where it comes from. From right, left or back.
By the bridge (Sirat), which is across the hell, until crossing it.'"
Ibn Omar (r.a.) reports,
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) said:
"When the hell's people will be in it and the paradise's people will be in it,
the death will be brought.
It will placed between them both and will destroyed.
Later an announcer will call:
'Oh people of paradise, there is an eternity but no death!'
'Oh people of hell, there is an eternity but no death!'
People in paradise get much happier,
while the people in hell get much more sad.'"
Yes, once the time will come.
The inescapable day will come and everyone will gathered together.
That day is Allah the only ruler and it's a very hard day for unbelievers.
The sky will crashed to white clouds and the angels will come down.
The earth will split apart and everybody will leave their graves.
Those who ended their time - incomparable to hereafter - will directly go to the place of judgement.
Past and later generations, anyone will forgotten.
Powerful, weak, cruel, poor, believer, unbeliever, they all will be there.
Those who never expected to confront this moment.
Those who knew they would die, but didn't care.
Those who overstepped the limits.
Those who made a mess for nothing.
Those who raised against their God.
Those who were overwhelmed by their sovereignty and claimed to be gods.
Those who insulted the values of Muslims.
Those who take the unbelievers as shelter and friends.
Those who exchanged Allah's book against the world.
Those who hide the book of Allah, because of own profit.
Those who didn't tell the truth to the cruels.
They are all together and wondering!
And there isn't any remain of their worldly arrogance and pleasure.
Desperate and aware of the degrading end!
But the believers are in a deeply happiness and joy.
They found what they hoped for.
They live the inexplicable pleasure and excitement to meet their Lord and to get the eternal paradise.
And eventually comes the point for the separation of the believers and unbelievers.
Prophets will be brought to witness for their communities.
Every community kneels down.
They all will called to their books.
To them will told:
"Today, you will be repaid for what you've done!"
There is no use for repentance (Touba) anymore.
Crying or patience won't change anything.
Scale is there and the books will be opened instantly.
From know on talking the records.
The cruels' excuses don't use anymore, nor they shall satisfy Allah.
And the period begins, in which none can't help another.
Paradise shall brought near,
hell shall lighted.
Without Allah's permission can't nobody talk.
Whoever talks, can only say the truth.
Obvious or hidden, they all will be shown.
Allah, who lets speak the tongue, lets also speak the hands and witness the feet.
And the human will asked about every given thing.
And everyone understands everything without any doubts.
Those who get their books from the right, feel the joy of eternal salvation,
others who get the books from left, feel the sadness of eternal regret.
Yes, people but also communities who had the same way in this world, will also have the same way hereafter.
They'll come together, but answer lonely.
Nothing will left unrepaid.
Those with good deeds will also repaid.
Certainly Allah the Lord of the worlds is, who makes his promise come true.
There is much to say, but the time is almost.
To say in short; whoever wants, would take a way to his Lord, and who don't, to the unknown.
We finish our topic with Al-Zalzalah 1-8, Al-Jathiya 31-37, Saba 51-54, Fatir 36-37.
May Allah, the Lord of the worlds, the Ruler of the judgement day and the most Holy take care of you!
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking,
And the earth brings forth her burdens, And man says: What has befallen her?
On that day she shall tell her news, Because your Lord had inspired her.
On that day men shall come forth in sundry bodies that they may be shown their works.
So. he who has done an atom’s weight of good shall see it And he who has done an atom’s weight of evil shall see it."
"As to those who disbelieved: What! were not My communications recited to you? But you were proud and you were a guilty people.
And when it was said, Surely the promise of Allah is true and as for the hour,
there is no doubt about it, you said: We do not know what the hour is; we do not think (that it will come to pass)
save a passing thought, and we are not at all sure.
And the evil (consequences) of what they did shall become manifest to them
and that which they mocked shall encompass them.
And it shall be said: Today We forsake you as you neglected the meeting of this day of yours
and your abode is the fire, and there are not for you any helpers:
That is because you took the communications of Allah for a jest and the life of this world deceived you.
o on that day they shall not be brought forth from it, nor shall they be granted goodwill.
Therefore to Allah is due (all) praise, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth, the Lord of the worlds.
And to Him belongs greatness in the heavens and the earth,
and He is the Mighty, the Wise."
"And could you see when they shall become terrified,
but (then) there shall be no escape
and they shall be seized upon from a near place
And they shall say: We believe in it. And how shall the attaining (of faith) be possible to them from a distant place?
And they disbelieved in it before, and they utter conjectures with regard to the unseen from a distant place.
And a barrier shall be placed between them and that which they desire,
as was done with the likes of them before:
surely they are in a disquieting doubt."
"And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell;
it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die,
or shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them:
even thus do We re-tribute every ungrateful one.
And they shall cry therein for succour: O our Lord ! take us out, we will do good deeds other than those which we used to do.
Did We not preserve you alive long enough, so that he who would be mindful in it should mind?
And there came to you the warner;
therefore taste;
because for the unjust, there is no helper."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Arabic Qur'an Recitation]
"What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be returned to Us?
So exalted be Allah, the True King;
no god is there but He, the Lord of the honorable dominion.
And whoever invokes with Allah another god – he has no proof of this –
his reckoning is only with his Lord;
surely the unbelievers shall not be successful.
And say: O my Lord! forgive and have mercy,
and Thou art the best of the Merciful ones."
(Al-Mu'minun: 115-118)