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yourselves not come to you, reciting your Lord's signs to you and warning you of the meeting on this Day of
yours?" They will say, "Indeed they did, but the decree of punishment is justly carried out against the unbe-
lievers." They will be told, "Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode
of the arrogant!" And those who fear [and respect] their Lord will be driven to the Garden in companies and

when they arrive there, finding its gates open, its custodians will say to them, "Peace be upon you! You have
done well so enter it timelessly, for ever." (Surat az-Zumar: 68-73)
Some further examples of this are the following:

And every soul came, along with a driver and a witness. (Surah Qaf: 21)
And the heaven is cloven asunder, so that on that day it is frail. (Surat al-Haqqa: 16)
And because they were patient and constant, He rewarded them with a garden and garments of silk.

Reclining in the garden on raised thrones, they saw there neither the sun's excessive heat nor excessive cold.
(Surat al-Insan: 12-13)
And Hell is placed in full view for all to see. (Surat an-Nazi'at: 36)
But on this day the believers laugh at the unbelievers. (Surat al-Mutaffifin: 34)

And the sinful saw the fire and realized they are going to fall into it and find no way of escaping from it.
(Surat al-Kahf: 53)
In the above verses, the events we are to experience after death are described as finished. This is be-

cause God is not bound to the relative dimension of time as we are. God has willed all these events in time-
lessness; human beings have done them, experienced them all and brought them to a conclusion. The verse
below reveals that every kind of occurrence, great and small, happens within the knowledge of God and is
inscribed in a book.

You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur’an or do any action without Our witnessing you
while you are occupied with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on earth or in heaven.
Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Surah Yunus: 61)

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