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THE ARROGANCE OF SATAN

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)

As we are to learn from the verses of the Qur' an, family
ties will be broken on the Day of Judgment, and those who
now boast of their families will receive no help from them:
Then when the Trumpet is blown, that Day there will be
no family ties between them; they will not be able to
question one another. (Surat al-Mu' minun: 101)
Neither your blood relations nor your children will be
of any use to you. On the Day of Rising He will
differentiate between you. Allah sees what you do.
(Surat al-Mumtahana: 3)
Allah also informs us in the verse quoted below that the
hoarding of possessions in the life of this world will offer no
benefit to the arrogant in the hereafter:
The Companions of the Ramparts will call out to men
they recognise by their mark, saying, "What you

amassed was of no use to you, nor was your arrogance."
(Surat al-Araf: 48)
These people, though they considered themselves
powerful, because they failed to grasp that Allah possesses
everything, will see the truth of this fact in the hereafter. As
well, they will come to understand that neither their fortune
nor their power would suffice to save them from the
fearsome torment of Hell:
Who has amassed wealth and hoarded it! He thinks his
wealth will make him live for ever. No indeed! He will