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40 Before You Regret

An unbeliever will be brought on the Day of Resurrection
and will be asked. "Suppose you had as much as gold as to
fill the earth, would you offer it to ransom yourself?" He
will reply: "Yes". Then it will be said to him, "You were
asked for something easier than that [to join none in wor-
ship with Allah (i.e. to accept Islam, but you refused)]"
(Bukhari)
Their failure to have grasped this fact in the world,
where the signs of Allah's power and existence were
obvious, intensifies their regret. That day, they will plain-
ly see that they missed this opportunity. Their regret is
manifest from the way they speak:

The Day when a wrongdoer will bite his hands and say,
"Alas for me! If only I had gone the way of the
Messenger! Alas for me! If only I had not taken so-and-
so for a friend! He led me astray from the Reminder
after it came to me." Evil always leaves man in the
lurch. (Surat al-Furqan: 27-29)
On the Day of Judgment, unbelievers will be so occu-
pied with their own troubles that they turn a blind eye to
the calls of their own children, spouses, mothers, and
fathers. In the Qur'an, this is described as follows:

When the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man will
flee from his brother and his mother and his father, and
his wife and his children: on that Day every man
among them will have concerns enough of his own.
(Surah Abasa: 33-37)