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families from one another. Allah tells the reason in the Qur'an:

At length, when there comes the deafening noise, that day shall a man
flee from his own brother, and from his mother and his father, and from
his wife and his children. Each one of them, that day, will have enough
concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others. (Surah Abasa,
33-37)

THE DAY OF ACCOUNT
After all the events have taken place on the day of resurrection as
described above, the "trumpet" is sounded for the second time. This sound
is the outset of the day on which everyone will be resurrected. That day
the earth becomes thick with people who are raised up from their graves
where they were perhaps buried hundreds and thousands of years ago.
The resurrection of people on that day and the state of perplexity they will
be in are revealed by the Qur'an:
The trumpet is sounded, when behold! from the sepulchres (men) rush
forth to their Lord! They say: "Ah! Woe unto us! Who has raised us up
from our beds of repose?"... (A voice will say:) "This is what (Allah) Most
Gracious had promised. And true was the word of the messengers!" It is
no more than a single blast, when they are all brought up before Us!
Then, on that day, not a soul is wronged in the least, and you are but
repaid the meets of your past deeds. (Surah Ya-Seen, 51-54)
On that day, all the things that people declined to think about, that
they were not willing to understand, and that they fled from are laid bare.
They no longer have any means of escape or denial.
The moment these people, with the stamp of ignomity on their faces,

and heads fallen, emerge from their graves and assemble, the earth shines
with light and the book of each one is brought by and by to be given to
him.
On this day of meeting, when enormous throngs of people hitherto
unseen come together, the conditions of the believers and of the unbe-
lievers are certainly different. In the Qur'an, this is related as follows:
Then he that will be given his record in his right hand will say: "Ah here!

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