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40 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

design could issue from a lifeless nature, when nature itself did not
even exist, are ignored. According this irrational claim, nature
created everything. In other words, the awesome wonder of
harmony and balance is inherent in the soil, stones, air, and water.
But on the Day of Judgment, people will see what happens to the
mountains, rocks, and soil, and finally will realize that nature in
itself has no power, for although thought to be the source from
which everything living or nonliving issued, it will be unable to

save itself. Allah will demonstrate that everything exists only by His
Will and Power and depends upon His protection and sustenance.
Many will remember at that very moment, and thus feel great
regret, the truths that they ignored even though their own
consciences acknowledged them. Allah reveals the events of the
Day of Judgment, as follows:
When the sky bursts open, hearkening to its Lord as it is bound
to do! When Earth is flattened out and disgorges what is inside
it and empties out, hearkening to its Lord as it is bound to do!
O Man! You are toiling laboriously toward your Lord, but meet
Him you will! (Surat al-Inshiqaq, 1-6)

THE STARS, THE SUN, AND THE MOON

Contrary to space's cold darkness, Earth has an atmosphere that
accommodates the Sun's light and an average temperature that
supports life. In other words, the atmosphere, our planet's

protective ceiling, has light and heat diffusing properties that allow
the rays of sunlight to reach, heat, and light our world. Like
everything else that exists, on the Day of Judgment the heavens will
split apart and lose their functions, melt, and flow. In the Qur'an, the