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your Lord's Signs to you and warning you
about meeting [Him] on this Day of yours?"

They will say, "Indeed they did!" But the sen-
tence about torment will [already] have fallen
due upon the deniers of the truth. They will be
told, "Enter the gates of Hell and stay there
timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of
the arrogant!" And those who heeded their
Lord will be driven to the Garden in compa-
nies, and when they arrive there, finding its
gates open, its custodians will say to them,
"Peace be upon you! You have done well so
enter it timelessly, for ever."
Everyone should take seriously God's con-
stant warnings that the day of reckoning ap-

proaches, that "the Hour is coming without any
doubt" (Qur'an, 22: 7). In another verse, God says:
Mankind's Reckoning has drawn very close to
them, yet they heedlessly turn away. No fresh
reminder comes to them from their Lord with-
out their listening to it as if it was a game.
(Qur'an, 21: 1-2)

On that day, the good will receive a perfect
recompense for their deeds, while anyone who
committed evil will wish that there were a long
span of time between himself and that day. Each
individual will go alone into God's presence,
where he will be judged with complete fairness:

We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of
Rising and no self will be wronged in any way.

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