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you not then hear?’ (28:71) Say: ‘It is Allah I worship, making my religion
Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah made it perma- sincerely His, so worship anything you will apart
nent day for you till the Day of Rising, what god from Him!’ Say: ‘The real losers are those who
is there other than Allah to bring you night to rest lose themselves and their families on the Day of
in? Do you not then see?’ (28:72) Rising.’ Is not that clear loss? (39:14-15)
They will bear their own burdens and other bur- Is someone who tries to shield himself with his
dens together with their own. On the Day of face from the worst of the torment on the Day of
Rising they will be questioned about what they Rising ...? The wrongdoers will be told, ‘Taste
invented. (29:13) what you have earned.’ (39:24)
He (Ibrahim) said, ‘You have adopted idols apart Then on the Day of Rising you will argue in the
from Allah as tokens of mutual affection in this presence of your Lord. (39:31)
world. But then on the Day of Rising you will re- If those who did wrong owned everything on
ject one another and curse one another. The Fire earth, and the same again with it, they would
will be your shelter. You will have no helpers.’ offer it as a ransom to save themselves from the
(29:25) evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising.
On the Day the Hour arrives the evildoers will be What confronts them from Allah will be some-
in despair. (30:12) thing they did not reckon with. (39:47)
On the Day the Hour arrives, that Day they will On the Day of Rising you will see those who lied
be split up. (30:14) against Allah with their faces blackened. Do not
On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers the arrogant have a dwelling place in Hell?
will swear they have not even tarried for an hour. (39:60)
That is the extent to which they are deceived. They do not measure Allah with His true meas-
(30:55) ure. The whole earth will be a mere handful for
Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends Him on the Day of Rising the heavens folded up
down abundant rain and knows what is in the in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is exalted
womb. And no self knows what it will earn to- above the partners they ascribe! (39:67)
morrow and no self knows in what land it will The Fire, morning and night, to which they are
die. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (31:34) exposed; and on the Day the Hour takes place:
On the Day of Rising your Lord will decide be- ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the harshest punish-
tween them regarding everything about which ment!’ (40:46)
they differed. (32:25) The Hour is coming–there is no doubt about it.
People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: But most of mankind have no faith. (40:59)
‘Only Allah has knowledge of it. What will make Those who adulterate Our Signs are not con-
you understand? It may be that the Last Hour is cealed from Us. Who is better–someone who
very near.’ (33:63) will be thrown into the fire or someone who will
Those who disbelieve say, ‘The Hour will never arrive in safety on the Day of Rising? Do what
come.’ Say: ‘Yes, by my Lord, it certainly will you like. He sees whatever you do. (41:40)
come!’ He is the Knower of the Unseen, Whom Knowledge of the Hour is referred to Him. And
not even the weight of the smallest particle no fruit emerges from its husk, nor does any fe-
eludes, either in the heavens or in the earth; nor male get pregnant or give birth, without His
is there anything smaller or larger than that knowledge. On the Day He calls out to them:
which is not in a Clear Book. (34:3) ‘Where are My associates?’ they will say, ‘We de-
If you call on them they will not hear your call, clare to you that none of us is a witness.’ (41:47)
and were they to hear, they would not respond to But if We let him taste mercy from Us after he has
you. On the Day of Rising they will reject your suffered hardship, then he says, ‘This is my due. I
making associates of them. No one can inform do not think that the Hour is going to come. And
you like One Who is All-aware. (35:14) if I am returned to my Lord, I will definitely find
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