Page 43 - Paradise: The Believers' Real Home

AN EASY ACCOUNTING

fter the believers' souls are taken gently by angels
A A comes the moment of accounting, when all human be-
ings will come before our Lord's Presence with all that they
have done.
The course of events begun on the Day of Rising will con-
tinue with the resurrection of everyone who has ever lived
with a new body and their gathering around the flames of Hell.
Later, all of the witnesses will be brought in, each person's
book of deeds will be opened, and everyone will account for
what he or she did in the world. After this, all believers will be
saved from the flames of Hell by Allah's mercy and taken to
Paradise. The Qur'an describes the end of the world and the
believers' state on that day in some detail.
The end of the world begins with the first blow of the
trumpet. The world and the universe will be destroyed for-
ever, mountains will break into pieces, the seas will boil, and
the sky will be destroyed…