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pleasure will be seized by a great fear. Allah describes in the Qur'an the

horrifying events that will happen on that day:
Nay, the hour (of judgement) is the time promised them (for their full rec-
ompense): And that hour will be most grievous and most bitter. (Surat al-
Qamar, 46)
As the verses relate, the sounding of the trumpet is followed by a
great tremor and a roaring so violent as to deafen the ears. In the intensi-
ty of this din, the mountains start to shake and slide with the earth beneath
them (Surat al-Zalzala, 1-8).
Mountains are crumbled to atoms and become a scattered dust (Surat
al-Waqia, 5). At that moment, people very well understand how trivial are
the things that they have hitherto cherished. All the material values they
have pursued throughout their lives suddenly vanish:

Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (event),- the day
when man shall remember (all) that he strove for, and hell-fire shall be
placed in full view for (all) to see. (Surat an-Naziat, 34-36)

On that day, even the mountains made up of stones, earth and rocks
are dispersed like carded wool (Surat al-Qaria, 5) Man now becomes aware
that this power is not the power of nature. For on that day, nature also is
laid low. A tremendous fear and horror rule over all that happens that day.
People, animals, and nature are all overwhelmed by this horror. People see
that the oceans burst forth (Surat al-Infitar, 3) and that they are set on fire
(Surat at-Takwir, 6).
The heavens start shaking just like the earth and they start to be torn
away, in a way hitherto unwitnessed. The usual blue colour of the sky that
people are accustomed to is transformed and resembles molten brass
(Surat al-Maarij, 8). On this day, everything in the sky that used to give light
is suddenly darkened; the sun is folded up (Surat at-Takwir, 1), the moon
is cleft asunder (Surat al-Qamar, 1), and the sun and the moon are joined
together. (Surat al-Qiyama, 9)
Pregnant women lose their children because of the horrifying fear of

that day. The fear makes children hoary-headed (Surat al-Muzammil, 17).
Children run away from their mothers, women from their husbands, and

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