Page 114 - The Day of Judgment

112 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

wealth has been of no use to me. My power has vanished."
(Surat al-Haqqa, 25-29)
Another verse describes the difference between the believers,
who believed in Allah and the Hereafter with certainty and
prepared all through their lives for the moment of truth, and the
unbelievers, who forgot about the Hereafter and turned away from

Allah and the believers, as follows:
As for him who is given his Book in his right hand, he will be
given an easy reckoning and return to his people joyfully. But
as for him who is given his Book behind his back, he will cry
out for destruction but will be roasted in a Searing Blaze. He
used to be joyful among his people. He thought that he was
never going to return. But, in fact, his Lord was always
watching him! (Surat al-Inshiqaq, 7-15)

PEOPLE WILL BE SEPARATED

The moment awaited by those who lived according to Allah's
boundaries has arrived. The believers will experience the joy of
receiving what they were promised, whereas the unbelievers will
experience an indescribable and great fear, one that they have never
known before. The believers will not experience this fear. The
Qur'an reveals that the believers and the unbelievers will be
separated on this Day, for:
This is the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false]
that you used to deny. (Surat as-Saffat, 21)

The Qur'an reveals that people will be separated into groups: the
"Companions of the Right" (the believers) and the "Companions of
the Left" (the unbelievers). Among the believers, are those who were