Page 134 - The Day of Judgment

132 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

Those who perform bad actions will be flung headfirst into the
Fire: "Are you being repaid for anything other than what you
did?" (Surat an-Naml, 90)
Many factors will bring on this remorse. For example, their
meeting with Allah's punishment, being all alone, watching their
skins testify against them, being made hideous, sensing the terror of
eternal suffering, seeing Hell and, comprehending the damnation

that is awaiting them, seeing the false deities they followed blindly
and trusted in suddenly disappear, and seeing that satan, whose
path they followed consistently, also has deserted them. In the
Qur'an Allah recounts what satan will tell his followers on that Day
in the following words:
When the affair is decided, satan will say: "Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but
broke my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I
called you and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame
me, but blame yourselves. I cannot come to your aid, nor you to
mine. I reject the way you associated me with Allah before."
The wrongdoers will have a painful punishment. (Surah
Ibrahim, 22)
The believers will watch the unbelievers' hopeless situation,
whereas the unbelievers will regard the believers from the corner of
their eyes, as their heads will be lowered in shame and remorse.
This reality is revealed in one verse:

You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who
believe will say: "Truly the losers are those who lose
themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection." The
wrongdoers are in an everlasting punishment. (Surat ash-
Shura, 45)