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88 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

doomed to experience this condition forever, for:
How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then
He gave you life, then He will make you die and then give
you life again, then you will be returned to Him? (Surat al-
Baqara, 28)

THE SECOND TRUMPET BLAST AND THE DAY
OF RESURRECTION

Those who have been given knowledge and faith will say:
"You tarried in accordance with Allah's Decree until the
Day of Resurrection. And this is the Day of Resurrection,
but you did not know it." On that Day the excuses of those
who did wrong will not help them, nor will they be able to
appease Allah. (Surat ar-Rum, 56-57)

Allah sent His Messengers to all people throughout history
to inform them of His existence and that of the Day of Judgment,
and to invite them to belief. But as the Qur'an reveals, except for
a small minority, most people chose not to believe, resisted
Allah and His Messengers, and denied the resurrection, as the
following verses reveal:
They swear by Allah with their most earnest oaths that He
will not raise up those who die, when, on the contrary, it is
a binding promise on Him; but most people do not know it.

So that He can make clear to them the things they differed
about, and so that those who did not believe will know that
they were liars. (Surat an-Nahl, 38-39)
[The ruling circle of Noah's people said:] "If you were to
obey a human being like yourselves, you would, in that