1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:09,119 Summary of the Doctrines of Ahl al-Sunnah 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:14,339 What is meant by belief in the Last Day 3 00:00:14,339 --> 00:00:21,339 is believing in the arrival of a Day wherein man will be held accountable for his deeds during his worldly life, 4 00:00:21,339 --> 00:00:25,339 and subsequently recompensed for them with admission into either Paradise or the Fire. 5 00:00:25,339 --> 00:00:28,339 It is part of belief in the unseen (ghayb), 6 00:00:28,339 --> 00:00:33,340 and discourse concerning it encompasses everything that befalls a person from the moment of death 7 00:00:33,340 --> 00:00:38,340 until entering Paradise or Hellfire, dwelling eternally in either of them. 8 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:45,340 The divine decree may necessitate that some people be purified of their sins by entering the Fire first, 9 00:00:45,340 --> 00:00:48,340 and then brought out of it into the Paradise of eternity. 10 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:51,340 This applies at the level of each individual. 11 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:55,340 As for the level of worldly life and its termination, 12 00:00:55,340 --> 00:00:57,340 and the onset of the Day of Resurrection, 13 00:00:57,340 --> 00:01:03,340 it also encompasses discourse regarding the minor and major signs of the Hour. 14 00:01:03,340 --> 00:01:10,200 The Names of the Last Day in the Noble Qur'an and Their Meanings 15 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:16,480 The Last Day has been called by numerous names in the Noble Qur'an, 16 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,480 and described with many attributes, 17 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,480 amounting to approximately twenty-three names and descriptions. 18 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,510 The multitude of names and descriptions for this Day exists only 19 00:01:28,510 --> 00:01:30,510 due to the magnitude of its affair, 20 00:01:30,510 --> 00:01:36,510 as is customary among the Arabs to employ numerous designations for anything they hold in high esteem or awe, 21 00:01:36,510 --> 00:01:38,510 such as the sword and the lion. 22 00:01:38,510 --> 00:01:42,510 Thus, because the affair of the Last Day is immense and its terrors are manifold, 23 00:01:42,510 --> 00:01:48,510 the Qur'an designated it by numerous names and described it with many attributes. 24 00:01:48,510 --> 00:01:55,510 Among these, the first and second are: "the Last Day" (al-Yawm al-Akhir) and "the Hereafter" (al-Akhirah). 25 00:01:55,510 --> 00:01:59,540 The expression "the Last Day" appears twenty-six times, 26 00:01:59,540 --> 00:02:03,540 while the word "the Hereafter" appears two hundred and ten times. 27 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:05,540 Both carry the same meaning: 28 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:09,539 it is called "the Last Day" because there is no day after it, 29 00:02:09,539 --> 00:02:13,539 and "the Hereafter" because there is nothing beyond it. 30 00:02:13,539 --> 00:02:17,539 It is the final station through which human beings journey: 31 00:02:17,539 --> 00:02:20,539 from nonexistence into their mother's womb, 32 00:02:20,539 --> 00:02:22,539 then exiting into the life of this world, 33 00:02:22,539 --> 00:02:24,539 then the life of the Barzakh (intermediate realm), 34 00:02:24,539 --> 00:02:28,539 and finally to this Hereafter, wherein they shall abide eternally, 35 00:02:28,539 --> 00:02:31,539 either in Paradise or in the Fire. 36 00:02:31,539 --> 00:02:33,580 Among these verses is 37 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:35,580 the saying of Allah Almighty: 38 00:02:35,580 --> 00:02:39,580 "And of the people are some who say, 'We believe in Allah and the Last Day,' but they are not believers." 39 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:43,580 “And of mankind are some who say: We believe in Allah and the Last Day, when they believe not.” (2:8) 40 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:45,580 And His saying: 41 00:02:45,580 --> 00:02:49,580 “And who believe in that which is revealed unto thee (Muhammad) and that which was revealed before thee, and are certain of the Hereafter.” (2:4) 42 00:02:49,580 --> 00:02:52,580 "and what was revealed before you, 43 00:02:52,580 --> 00:02:55,740 and of the Hereafter they are certain [in faith]." 44 00:02:55,740 --> 00:02:57,740 The third and fourth are: 45 00:02:57,740 --> 00:03:00,740 "the Day of Recompense" (Yawm al-Din) and "the Day of Account" (Yawm al-Hisab). 46 00:03:00,740 --> 00:03:02,740 Both convey the same meaning, 47 00:03:02,740 --> 00:03:05,740 as "al-Din" signifies recompense and reckoning. 48 00:03:05,740 --> 00:03:10,740 The phrase "the Day of Recompense" occurs thirteen times, 49 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:14,740 and the phrase "the Day of Account" occurs four times. 50 00:03:14,740 --> 00:03:16,740 This Day was given this name 51 00:03:16,740 --> 00:03:23,800 because a person is brought to account therein for worldly deeds and recompensed for them. 52 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,800 Allah Almighty said: 53 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,800 "Sovereign of the Day of Recompense." 54 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,800 And He said: 55 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,960 “This it is that ye are promised for the Day of Reckoning.” (38:53) 56 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,960 "This is what you are promised for the Day of Account." 57 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,960 The fifth is: "the Day of Resurrection" (Yawm al-Qiyamah). 58 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,960 It is mentioned in the Noble Qur'an seventy times, 59 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,960 “Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection;” (75:1) 60 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,960 "I swear by the Day of Resurrection." 61 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:50,960 A whole Surah has been named with this title. 62 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:55,960 The Day was so called 63 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,960 because people will stand on it before the Lord of the worlds for their reckoning, 64 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,960 “The day when (all) mankind stand before the Lord of the Worlds?” (83:6) 65 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,180 "The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds." 66 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:09,180 The sixth is: "the Hour" (al-Sa'ah). 67 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:12,180 It occurs in the Noble Qur'an thirty-five times, 68 00:04:12,180 --> 00:04:17,180 “And unto Allah belongeth the Unseen of the heavens and the earth, and the matter of the Hour (of Doom) is but as a twinkling of the eye, or it is nearer still. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.” (16:77) 69 00:04:17,180 --> 00:04:21,180 "Indeed, Allah is over all things competent." 70 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:24,180 In language, "al-sa'ah" refers to the present moment. 71 00:04:24,180 --> 00:04:27,180 It was named as such due to the imminence of its arrival, 72 00:04:27,180 --> 00:04:29,180 as though it were already present, 73 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:31,180 and because it arrives suddenly, 74 00:04:31,180 --> 00:04:33,180 as Allah Almighty said: 75 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:38,180 "They ask you about the Hour: when is its arrival?" 76 00:04:38,180 --> 00:04:42,180 “They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.” (7:187) 77 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:46,180 “They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.” (7:187) 78 00:04:46,180 --> 00:04:49,180 “They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.” (7:187) 79 00:04:49,180 --> 00:04:52,180 “They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.” (7:187) 80 00:04:52,180 --> 00:04:54,470 The seventh is: 81 00:04:54,470 --> 00:04:56,470 "the Imminent" (al-Azifah). 82 00:04:56,470 --> 00:04:58,470 Allah Almighty said: 83 00:04:58,470 --> 00:05:00,470 "The Imminent has drawn near." 84 00:05:00,470 --> 00:05:04,470 Its connotation is close to that of "the Hour", 85 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:07,470 for "azifat" means drew close and approached. 86 00:05:07,470 --> 00:05:11,470 It has also been mentioned in construct with the word "Day" (yawm); 87 00:05:11,470 --> 00:05:13,470 Allah Almighty said: 88 00:05:13,470 --> 00:05:15,470 "And warn them of the Approaching Day." 89 00:05:15,470 --> 00:05:19,470 “Warn them (O Muhammad) of the Day of the approaching (doom), when the hearts will be choking the throats, (when) there will be no friend for the wrong-doers, nor any intercessor who will be heard.” (40:18) 90 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:21,759 The eighth is: 91 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:22,759 "the Inevitable Event" (al-Waqi'ah). 92 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:24,790 Allah Almighty said: 93 00:05:24,790 --> 00:05:27,790 "When the Inevitable Event occurs." 94 00:05:27,790 --> 00:05:29,790 And He said: 95 00:05:29,790 --> 00:05:32,790 "Then on that Day, the Event will occur." 96 00:05:32,790 --> 00:05:36,790 It was named as such because its occurrence is an absolute certainty. 97 00:05:36,790 --> 00:05:38,949 The ninth is: 98 00:05:38,949 --> 00:05:41,019 "the Inevitable Reality" (al-Haqqah). 99 00:05:41,019 --> 00:05:43,019 Allah Almighty said: 100 00:05:43,019 --> 00:05:45,019 "The Inevitable Reality!" 101 00:05:45,019 --> 00:05:48,019 "What is the Inevitable Reality?" 102 00:05:48,019 --> 00:05:52,139 "And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?" 103 00:05:52,139 --> 00:05:58,370 It was named as such because everything that the deniers rejected will be actualized and realized therein. 104 00:05:58,370 --> 00:06:00,370 The tenth is: 105 00:06:00,370 --> 00:06:02,370 "the Greatest Catastrophe" (al-Tammat al-Kubra). 106 00:06:02,370 --> 00:06:04,370 Allah Almighty said: 107 00:06:04,370 --> 00:06:09,370 “But when the great disaster cometh,” (79:34) 108 00:06:09,370 --> 00:06:11,370 "So when there comes the Greatest Catastrophe." 109 00:06:11,370 --> 00:06:14,370 It is said: 110 00:06:14,370 --> 00:06:20,370 An affair "tamma" when it surges, overwhelms, and overcomes; 111 00:06:20,370 --> 00:06:22,750 thus the Resurrection was named so because it overwhelms every terrifying event. 112 00:06:22,750 --> 00:06:24,879 The eleventh is: 113 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:26,879 "the Deafening Blast" (al-Sakhkhah). 114 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:30,879 Allah Almighty said: 115 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:33,879 "But when there comes the Deafening Blast." 116 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:36,879 That is, the mighty shout of the Resurrection. 117 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:41,879 It was named so because it pierces the ears, 118 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:44,230 deafening them almost completely by its overwhelming intensity. 119 00:06:44,230 --> 00:06:46,300 The twelfth is: 120 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:48,300 "the Overwhelming Event" (al-Ghashiyah). 121 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:51,360 “Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?” (88:1) 122 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:57,519 "Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming Event?" 123 00:06:57,519 --> 00:06:59,519 It was called so because it overwhelms mankind with its terrors and engulfs them in grief. 124 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:05,519 Among its connotations is 125 00:07:05,519 --> 00:07:07,519 the Fire engulfing the disbelievers and surrounding them from above and beneath their feet. 126 00:07:07,519 --> 00:07:16,519 “On the day when the doom will overwhelm them from above them and from underneath their feet, and He will say: Taste what ye used to do!” (29:55) 127 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:18,519 Allah Almighty said: 128 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:24,839 “Theirs will be a bed of hell, and over them coverings (of hell). Thus do We requite wrong-doers.” (7:41) 129 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:26,839 "They will have canopies of fire above them and below them, canopies." 130 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:27,839 The thirteenth is: 131 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:29,839 "the Striking Calamity" (al-Qari'ah). 132 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:30,839 Allah Almighty said: 133 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:32,839 "The Striking Calamity!" 134 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:34,839 “Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!” (101:3) 135 00:07:34,839 --> 00:07:36,970 And He said: 136 00:07:36,970 --> 00:07:40,970 “(The tribes of) Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.” (69:4) 137 00:07:40,970 --> 00:07:45,970 "And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?" 138 00:07:45,970 --> 00:07:46,970 It is called so because it strikes the hearts with its terrors. 139 00:07:46,970 --> 00:07:49,970 It is said in Arabic: 140 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:52,970 "The calamities of time struck them," 141 00:07:52,970 --> 00:07:58,060 meaning its terrors and tribulations. 142 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:00,129 The following names are all mentioned in construct with the word "Day" (yawm): 143 00:08:00,129 --> 00:08:02,129 The fourteenth is: 144 00:08:02,129 --> 00:08:04,129 "the Day of Regret" (Yawm al-Hasrah). 145 00:08:04,129 --> 00:08:11,129 “And warn them of the Day of anguish when the case hath been decided. Now they are in a state of carelessness, and they believe not.” (19:39) 146 00:08:11,129 --> 00:08:15,129 "And warn them of the Day of Regret, when the matter will be concluded." 147 00:08:15,129 --> 00:08:20,129 It is called so due to the sheer intensity of remorse the servants will experience therein, 148 00:08:20,129 --> 00:08:22,129 whether the regret of the disbelievers over failing to believe in it, 149 00:08:22,129 --> 00:08:25,129 as shown in the preceding verse, 150 00:08:25,129 --> 00:08:34,129 and in His saying: 151 00:08:34,129 --> 00:08:36,129 "Lest a soul should say, 'Oh, how I regret what I neglected regarding Allah and that I was among the mockers,'" 152 00:08:36,129 --> 00:08:43,129 and other such verses; 153 00:08:43,129 --> 00:08:45,450 or even the believers regretting that they did not increase in righteous deeds and piety. 154 00:08:45,450 --> 00:08:47,450 The fifteenth is: 155 00:08:47,450 --> 00:08:49,450 "the Day of Resurrection" (Yawm al-Ba'th). 156 00:08:49,450 --> 00:08:56,450 “But those to whom knowledge and faith are given will say: The truth is, ye have tarried, by Allah's decree, until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but ye used not to know.” (30:56) 157 00:08:56,450 --> 00:09:02,450 “But those to whom knowledge and faith are given will say: The truth is, ye have tarried, by Allah's decree, until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but ye used not to know.” (30:56) 158 00:09:02,450 --> 00:09:08,450 "This is the Day of Resurrection, but you did not know." 159 00:09:08,450 --> 00:09:10,539 Resurrection (al-Ba'th) refers to Allah bringing the dead back to life and raising them for accountability. 160 00:09:10,539 --> 00:09:12,539 The sixteenth is: 161 00:09:12,539 --> 00:09:14,539 "the Day of Judgment" (Yawm al-Fasl). 162 00:09:14,539 --> 00:09:18,539 “Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,” (78:17) 163 00:09:18,539 --> 00:09:20,539 "This is the Day of Judgment, in which you used to deny." 164 00:09:20,539 --> 00:09:25,539 “This is the Day of Separation, which ye used to deny.” (37:21) 165 00:09:25,539 --> 00:09:31,539 "This is the Day of Judgment; We have gathered you and the former peoples." 166 00:09:31,539 --> 00:09:33,539 It was named so because Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will judge between the servants therein. 167 00:09:33,539 --> 00:09:41,539 “Lo! thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ.” (32:25) 168 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:43,639 "Indeed, your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection." 169 00:09:43,639 --> 00:09:45,639 The seventeenth is: 170 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:47,639 "the Day of the Meeting" (Yawm al-Talaq). 171 00:09:47,639 --> 00:09:55,639 “The Exalter of Ranks, the Lord of the Throne. He causeth the Spirit of His command upon whom He will of His slaves, that He may warn of the Day of Meeting,” (40:15) 172 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:59,639 "to warn of the Day of the Meeting." 173 00:09:59,639 --> 00:10:01,639 Namely, the Day on which all servants shall meet: 174 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:04,639 the oppressor will meet the oppressed, 175 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:09,639 the inhabitants of the earth will meet the inhabitants of heaven, 176 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:14,639 and indeed, the weak creature will meet the Compelling Creator; 177 00:10:14,639 --> 00:10:17,059 every worker will meet their deed, whether good or evil. 178 00:10:17,059 --> 00:10:19,059 The eighteenth is: 179 00:10:19,059 --> 00:10:21,179 "the Day of Gathering" (Yawm al-Jam'). 180 00:10:21,179 --> 00:10:29,179 “And thus We have inspired in thee a Lecture in Arabic, that thou mayst warn the mother-town and those around it, and mayst warn of a day of assembling whereof there is no doubt. A host will be in the Garden, and a host of them in the Flame.” (42:7) 181 00:10:29,179 --> 00:10:33,179 “And thus We have inspired in thee a Lecture in Arabic, that thou mayst warn the mother-town and those around it, and mayst warn of a day of assembling whereof there is no doubt. A host will be in the Garden, and a host of them in the Flame.” (42:7) 182 00:10:33,179 --> 00:10:38,179 “And thus We have inspired in thee a Lecture in Arabic, that thou mayst warn the mother-town and those around it, and mayst warn of a day of assembling whereof there is no doubt. A host will be in the Garden, and a host of them in the Flame.” (42:7) 183 00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:40,340 "and warn of the Day of Gathering, of which there is no doubt." 184 00:10:40,340 --> 00:10:45,340 “The day when He shall gather you unto the Day of Assembling, that will be a day of mutual disillusion. And whoso believeth in Allah and doeth right, He will remit from him his evil deeds and will bring him unto Gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to abide for ever. That is the supreme triumph.” (64:9) 185 00:10:45,340 --> 00:10:49,340 "The Day He will gather you for the Day of Gathering - that is the Day of Deprivation." 186 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:51,340 It is the Day on which all people will be gathered together, 187 00:10:51,340 --> 00:10:56,340 “Lo! herein verily there is a portent for those who fear the doom of the Hereafter. That is a day unto which mankind will be gathered, and that is a day that will be witnessed.” (11:103) 188 00:10:56,340 --> 00:11:03,340 “Lo! herein verily there is a portent for those who fear the doom of the Hereafter. That is a day unto which mankind will be gathered, and that is a day that will be witnessed.” (11:103) 189 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:05,470 "Say, 'Indeed, the former and later peoples will surely be gathered for the appointment of a known Day.'" 190 00:11:05,470 --> 00:11:07,470 The nineteenth is: 191 00:11:07,470 --> 00:11:09,470 "the Day of Calling" (Yawm al-Tanad). 192 00:11:09,470 --> 00:11:14,470 “And, O my people! Lo! I fear for you a Day of Summoning,” (40:32) 193 00:11:14,470 --> 00:11:19,470 "Indeed, I fear for you the Day of Calling." 194 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:23,470 It was called so due to the frequent calls and cries that will occur therein: 195 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:27,470 every person will be called by name for the reckoning, 196 00:11:27,470 --> 00:11:31,470 the companions of Paradise will call out to the companions of the Fire, 197 00:11:31,470 --> 00:11:35,470 the companions of the Fire will likewise call out to the companions of Paradise, 198 00:11:35,470 --> 00:11:37,659 and the companions of the Elevations (al-A'raf) will call out to both. 199 00:11:37,659 --> 00:11:39,659 The twentieth is: 200 00:11:39,659 --> 00:11:41,659 "the Day of the Warning" (Yawm al-Wa'id). 201 00:11:41,659 --> 00:11:43,659 Allah Almighty said: 202 00:11:43,659 --> 00:11:45,659 "And the Horn will be blown. 203 00:11:45,659 --> 00:11:50,659 That is the Day of the Warning." 204 00:11:50,659 --> 00:11:54,659 It is the Day with which Allah warned the disbelievers and hypocrites, 205 00:11:54,659 --> 00:11:59,659 threatening them with torment and eternal dwelling in the Fire, 206 00:11:59,659 --> 00:12:01,659 and warned every oppressor and sinner of accountability for their oppression and disobedience. 207 00:12:01,659 --> 00:12:05,659 The reality of a warning (al-wa'id) 208 00:12:05,659 --> 00:12:07,980 is the announcement of punishment for transgression. 209 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:09,980 The twenty-first is: 210 00:12:09,980 --> 00:12:11,980 "the Day of Eternity" (Yawm al-Khulud). 211 00:12:12,980 --> 00:12:14,980 Allah Almighty said: 212 00:12:14,980 --> 00:12:17,980 "Enter it in peace. 213 00:12:17,980 --> 00:12:21,080 That is the Day of Eternity." 214 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,080 For people will dwell eternally therein without death. 215 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,080 In the hadith: 216 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,080 "Death will be brought forward in the form of a black-and-white ram, 217 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:29,080 and it will be slaughtered. 218 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,080 Then it will be said: 219 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,080 'O people of Paradise, eternity and no death! 220 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,080 And O people of the Fire, eternity and no death!'" 221 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,299 (Agreed upon). 222 00:12:41,299 --> 00:12:43,299 The twenty-second is: 223 00:12:43,299 --> 00:12:45,299 "the Day of Emerging" (Yawm al-Khuruj). 224 00:12:45,299 --> 00:12:49,299 “The day when they will hear the (Awful) Cry in truth. That is the day of coming forth (from the graves).” (50:42) 225 00:12:49,299 --> 00:12:51,299 "The Day they will hear the blast in truth - that is the Day of Emerging." 226 00:12:51,299 --> 00:12:57,299 It is the Day on which people emerge from their graves upon hearing the mighty blast, 227 00:12:57,299 --> 00:13:00,299 which is the second blowing of the Horn, 228 00:13:00,299 --> 00:13:03,299 emerging for judgment and recompense, 229 00:13:03,299 --> 00:13:05,299 as Allah Almighty said: 230 00:13:05,299 --> 00:13:13,559 “The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal,” (70:43) 231 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,559 "The Day they will come out from the graves rapidly as if they were racing to an erect idol." 232 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,559 The Day of Mutual Deprivation (Yawm al-Taghabun). 233 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,590 Allah Almighty said: 234 00:13:19,590 --> 00:13:22,590 “The day when He shall gather you unto the Day of Assembling, that will be a day of mutual disillusion. And whoso believeth in Allah and doeth right, He will remit from him his evil deeds and will bring him unto Gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to abide for ever. That is the supreme triumph.” (64:9) 235 00:13:22,590 --> 00:13:25,590 "That is the Day of Mutual Deprivation." 236 00:13:25,590 --> 00:13:29,620 For it is a day wherein there is both the gainer and the loser, 237 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:31,620 meaning the victorious and the ruined. 238 00:13:31,620 --> 00:13:36,620 The believers gain by being drawn away from the Fire and admitted into Paradise, 239 00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:40,620 while the disbelievers lose by entering the Fire. 240 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:45,230 The Last Day and the Great Tiding. 241 00:13:45,230 --> 00:13:51,379 The term "the Great Tiding" (an-Naba' al-'Azim) appears twice in the Holy Qur'an: 242 00:13:51,379 --> 00:13:57,379 once with the definite article, and once without it. 243 00:13:57,379 --> 00:13:59,419 Allah Almighty said: 244 00:13:59,419 --> 00:14:02,419 "About what are they asking one another?" 245 00:14:02,419 --> 00:14:04,419 "About the great tiding." 246 00:14:04,419 --> 00:14:06,419 And He Almighty said: 247 00:14:06,419 --> 00:14:09,419 “Say: It is tremendous tidings” (38:67) 248 00:14:09,419 --> 00:14:11,419 "From which you turn away." 249 00:14:11,419 --> 00:14:16,419 A tiding (naba') is truthful news that conveys definitive knowledge, 250 00:14:16,419 --> 00:14:18,419 possessing immense benefit. 251 00:14:18,419 --> 00:14:23,639 It has been reported from the salaf (early generations) that the Great Tiding refers to the Day of Resurrection, 252 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:26,639 and it has also been reported that it refers to the Holy Qur'an. 253 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:28,639 Both meanings are entirely plausible: 254 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:34,639 the tiding of the Last Day is tremendous due to the terrors and immense events it entails, 255 00:14:34,639 --> 00:14:38,639 and the Holy Qur'an is a tremendous tiding in all that it contains, 256 00:14:38,639 --> 00:14:43,639 including the refutation of polytheism, the establishment of Tawhid, 257 00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:49,639 and the affirmation of the resurrection on the Day of Judgment and its overwhelming terrors. 258 00:14:49,639 --> 00:14:56,899 The Day of Resurrection has indeed been described as a "tremendous day" in numerous verses of the Holy Qur'an. 259 00:14:56,899 --> 00:14:58,899 He Almighty said: 260 00:14:58,899 --> 00:15:03,899 “The sects among them differ: but woe unto the disbelievers from the meeting of an awful Day.” (19:37) 261 00:15:03,899 --> 00:15:05,899 And He Almighty said: 262 00:15:05,899 --> 00:15:12,899 "Do they not think that they will be resurrected, for a tremendous Day?" 263 00:15:12,899 --> 00:15:17,659 Facets of belief in the Last Day. 264 00:15:17,659 --> 00:15:21,330 Belief in the Last Day 265 00:15:21,330 --> 00:15:25,330 encompasses belief in the following matters: 266 00:15:25,330 --> 00:15:29,330 the trial of the grave, along with its punishment and bliss; 267 00:15:29,330 --> 00:15:31,330 resurrection after death; 268 00:15:31,330 --> 00:15:33,330 the Reckoning; 269 00:15:33,330 --> 00:15:35,330 the Scale; 270 00:15:35,330 --> 00:15:37,330 the distribution of the records of deeds; 271 00:15:37,330 --> 00:15:39,330 the Basin (al-Hawd); 272 00:15:39,330 --> 00:15:40,330 the Traverse (as-Sirat); 273 00:15:40,330 --> 00:15:42,360 the Intercession; 274 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,360 Paradise and Hellfire; 275 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,460 and the minor and major signs of the Hour. 276 00:15:48,460 --> 00:15:51,159 The trial of the grave: 277 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:55,659 It is the very first stage that occurs after death, 278 00:15:55,659 --> 00:15:59,659 wherein a person is questioned in his grave concerning three matters: 279 00:15:59,659 --> 00:16:01,659 "Who is your Lord?", 280 00:16:01,659 --> 00:16:02,659 "What is your religion?", 281 00:16:02,659 --> 00:16:04,659 and "Who is your Prophet?" 282 00:16:04,659 --> 00:16:06,659 Thereupon, Allah grants steadfastness to the believer, 283 00:16:06,659 --> 00:16:08,659 who replies, "My Lord is Allah, 284 00:16:08,659 --> 00:16:10,659 my religion is Islam, 285 00:16:10,659 --> 00:16:14,659 and my Prophet is Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him." 286 00:16:14,659 --> 00:16:17,659 As for the disbeliever, he says: 287 00:16:17,659 --> 00:16:21,659 "Ah, ah, I do not know!" 288 00:16:21,659 --> 00:16:25,460 The punishment and bliss of the grave: 289 00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:29,870 This is firmly established by the Book and the Sunnah. 290 00:16:29,870 --> 00:16:32,870 The deceased will either be blessed in his grave 291 00:16:32,870 --> 00:16:35,870 or punished—we seek refuge in Allah! 292 00:16:35,870 --> 00:16:40,870 This applies to every deceased person, whether buried or unburied. 293 00:16:40,870 --> 00:16:44,029 The evidence for the bliss of the grave from the Qur'an is 294 00:16:44,029 --> 00:16:46,029 the statement of Allah Almighty: 295 00:16:46,029 --> 00:16:50,029 “Those whom the angels cause to die (when they are) good. They say: Peace be unto you! Enter the Garden because of what ye used to do.” (16:32) 296 00:16:50,029 --> 00:16:53,029 "They say: 'Peace be upon you; 297 00:16:53,029 --> 00:16:57,029 enter Paradise for what you used to do.'" 298 00:16:57,029 --> 00:17:00,029 This address at the moment of death 299 00:17:00,029 --> 00:17:03,029 is glad tidings for the believer, in which he delights in his grave 300 00:17:03,029 --> 00:17:05,029 until the Hour is established. 301 00:17:05,029 --> 00:17:09,160 The evidence for the punishment of the grave is the statement of Allah Almighty: 302 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:14,160 “The Fire; they are exposed to it morning and evening; and on the day when the Hour upriseth (it is said): Cause Pharaoh's folk to enter the most awful doom.” (40:46) 303 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,160 "And the Day the Hour appears: 304 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,160 “The Fire; they are exposed to it morning and evening; and on the day when the Hour upriseth (it is said): Cause Pharaoh's folk to enter the most awful doom.” (40:46) 305 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,220 As for the Sunnah, 306 00:17:22,220 --> 00:17:27,220 hadiths have reached the level of mutawatir in mentioning the punishment and bliss of the grave. 307 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:31,220 Among them is the hadith concerning the supplication following the Tashahhud in prayer: 308 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:35,220 "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, 309 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:39,220 and I seek refuge in You from the trial of the False Messiah (ad-Dajjal)." 310 00:17:39,220 --> 00:17:41,220 Agreed upon. 311 00:17:41,220 --> 00:17:45,059 Resurrection after death: 312 00:17:45,059 --> 00:17:49,890 Resurrection after death is the Major Resurrection, 313 00:17:49,890 --> 00:17:52,890 wherein the Trumpet will be blown a second time, 314 00:17:52,890 --> 00:17:55,890 the souls will be returned to their bodies, 315 00:17:55,890 --> 00:17:58,890 and people will rise from their graves, 316 00:17:58,890 --> 00:18:00,890 just as Allah Almighty said: 317 00:18:00,890 --> 00:18:06,890 “And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!” (39:68) 318 00:18:06,890 --> 00:18:09,890 "Except whom Allah wills." 319 00:18:09,890 --> 00:18:11,890 “And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!” (39:68) 320 00:18:11,890 --> 00:18:15,890 “And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!” (39:68) 321 00:18:15,890 --> 00:18:17,920 Whoever denies the resurrection 322 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,920 is among the disbelievers, 323 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,920 as Allah Almighty said: 324 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,920 "Those who disbelieve claim that they will never be resurrected. 325 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,920 “Those who disbelieve assert that they will not be raised again. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Yea, verily, by my Lord! ye will be raised again and then ye will be informed of what ye did; and that is easy for Allah.” (64:7) 326 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,920 Then you will surely be informed of what you did." 327 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,920 “Those who disbelieve assert that they will not be raised again. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Yea, verily, by my Lord! ye will be raised again and then ye will be informed of what ye did; and that is easy for Allah.” (64:7) 328 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,140 The Minor Resurrection: 329 00:18:40,140 --> 00:18:42,940 The Minor Resurrection 330 00:18:42,940 --> 00:18:44,940 is the death of an individual person; 331 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:46,940 it was termed as such 332 00:18:46,940 --> 00:18:48,940 because whoever dies, 333 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:50,940 his personal resurrection has indeed begun, 334 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:55,940 due to his departure from this worldly life and his entry into the realm of the Hereafter. 335 00:18:55,940 --> 00:19:01,180 The reckoning of the creation for their deeds: 336 00:19:01,180 --> 00:19:08,039 People will be called to account on the Day of Resurrection for their deeds in worldly life. 337 00:19:08,039 --> 00:19:09,039 As for the believer, 338 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:14,039 his reckoning will be one of divine grace, benevolence, and generosity; 339 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:19,039 it will merely be a presentation of his deeds before him without rigorous interrogation, 340 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:21,039 which is the easy reckoning, 341 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:23,039 as Allah Almighty said: 342 00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:27,039 "Then as for him who is given his record in his right hand, 343 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:31,039 “He truly will receive an easy reckoning” (84:8) 344 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:33,039 But as for him whose account is thoroughly scrutinized, 345 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:35,039 he will be punished. 346 00:19:35,039 --> 00:19:39,039 This is clarified by the statement of the Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him: 347 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:42,039 "Whoever's account is scrutinized will be punished." 348 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:46,039 Lady 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, asked: 349 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:49,039 "Does not Allah Almighty say: 350 00:19:49,039 --> 00:19:52,039 “He truly will receive an easy reckoning” (84:8) 351 00:19:52,039 --> 00:19:55,039 The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: 352 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:57,039 "That is merely the presentation." 353 00:19:57,039 --> 00:19:59,099 Agreed upon. 354 00:19:59,099 --> 00:20:02,259 The disbelievers will be made to confess their deeds; 355 00:20:02,259 --> 00:20:06,259 and if they deny them, their own limbs will bear witness against them, 356 00:20:06,259 --> 00:20:08,259 as Allah Almighty said: 357 00:20:08,259 --> 00:20:14,259 “And (make mention of) the day when the enemies of Allah are gathered unto the Fire, they are driven on” (41:19) 358 00:20:14,259 --> 00:20:18,259 “Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do.” (41:20) 359 00:20:18,259 --> 00:20:21,259 "Their hearing, their sight, and their skins, 360 00:20:21,259 --> 00:20:24,259 as to what they used to do." 361 00:20:24,259 --> 00:20:26,390 Among the believing servants of Allah, 362 00:20:26,390 --> 00:20:28,390 there are those who will not be brought to account at all; 363 00:20:28,390 --> 00:20:30,390 they are seventy thousand, 364 00:20:30,390 --> 00:20:32,390 as mentioned in the hadith 365 00:20:32,390 --> 00:20:34,390 that Jibril, peace be upon him, 366 00:20:34,390 --> 00:20:37,390 said to the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him: 367 00:20:37,390 --> 00:20:39,390 "These are your Ummah, 368 00:20:39,390 --> 00:20:43,390 and these are seventy thousand before them 369 00:20:43,390 --> 00:20:46,390 who will have no reckoning and no punishment." 370 00:20:46,390 --> 00:20:49,420 The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: 371 00:20:50,420 --> 00:20:52,420 "I asked: 'And why is that?' 372 00:20:52,420 --> 00:20:53,420 He replied: 373 00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:55,420 'They are those who did not practice cauterization, 374 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:57,420 nor seek ruqyah, 375 00:20:57,420 --> 00:20:59,420 nor take omens, 376 00:20:59,420 --> 00:21:02,420 and in their Lord they put their trust.'" 377 00:21:02,420 --> 00:21:04,420 This is the hadith; 378 00:21:04,420 --> 00:21:07,640 agreed upon. 379 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,660 The Weighing and setting up of the Scales: 380 00:21:11,660 --> 00:21:15,660 This is the belief in the setting up of the Scales on the Day of Resurrection, 381 00:21:15,660 --> 00:21:18,660 in which the servants and their deeds will be weighed, 382 00:21:18,660 --> 00:21:20,660 as Allah Almighty said: 383 00:21:20,660 --> 00:21:23,660 “And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.” (21:47) 384 00:21:23,660 --> 00:21:26,660 “And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.” (21:47) 385 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:30,660 “And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.” (21:47) 386 00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:32,660 "We will bring it forth, 387 00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:34,660 and sufficient are We as reckoners." 388 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,660 And Allah Almighty said: 389 00:21:36,660 --> 00:21:39,660 "Then those whose scales are heavy, 390 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:42,660 it is they who are the successful. 391 00:21:42,660 --> 00:21:44,660 But those whose scales are light, 392 00:21:44,660 --> 00:21:46,660 those are the ones who 393 00:21:46,660 --> 00:21:48,660 have lost their souls, 394 00:21:48,660 --> 00:21:51,660 abiding eternally in Hell." 395 00:21:51,660 --> 00:21:55,140 The distribution of the records of deeds: 396 00:21:55,140 --> 00:21:59,940 This is the belief that every individual will come on the Day of Resurrection 397 00:21:59,940 --> 00:22:02,940 carrying a record wherein is inscribed 398 00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:04,940 all that he did in the worldly life; 399 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:06,940 he will grasp it either in his right hand, 400 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:08,940 if he is among the redeemed, 401 00:22:08,940 --> 00:22:10,940 or in his left hand, 402 00:22:10,940 --> 00:22:12,940 if he is among the ruined. 403 00:22:12,940 --> 00:22:14,940 Allah Almighty said: 404 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:17,940 "So as for him who is given his record in his right hand, 405 00:22:17,940 --> 00:22:21,940 he will say: 'Here, read my record!'" 406 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:23,940 And He Almighty said: 407 00:22:23,940 --> 00:22:27,940 “But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book” (69:25) 408 00:22:27,940 --> 00:22:31,940 “But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book” (69:25) 409 00:22:31,940 --> 00:22:34,940 "'And I never knew what my account was!'" 410 00:22:34,940 --> 00:22:37,460 The Basin (al-Hawd): 411 00:22:37,460 --> 00:22:41,160 It is the Basin of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 412 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,160 which is attested to by mutawatir hadiths. 413 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,160 It is an expansive basin, 414 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,160 and its description, as stated in the hadith, is: 415 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:54,160 "The capacity of my Basin is like the distance between Aylah and Sanaa in Yemen, 416 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:59,160 and its drinking vessels are as numerous as the stars of the sky." 417 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,160 Agreed upon. 418 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,160 In another hadith recorded by Muslim: 419 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,160 "Two spouts supply it with water flowing from Paradise; 420 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,160 whoever drinks from it will never thirst again; 421 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,160 its width is equal to its length, 422 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,160 like the distance between 'Amman and Aylah; 423 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:20,160 and its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey." 424 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,319 Narrated by Muslim. 425 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:28,319 The believers who followed the Messenger, peace be upon him, will arrive at the Basin; 426 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:32,319 as for those who introduced innovations after him, 427 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:34,319 they will be driven away from it, 428 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:37,319 just as he, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 429 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:41,319 "Some people from among my companions will certainly come to me at the Basin, 430 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:43,319 but once I recognize them, 431 00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:45,319 they will be pulled away from me. 432 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:48,319 So I will say: 'My companions!' 433 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:53,450 But it will be said: 'You do not know what they introduced after you.'" 434 00:23:53,450 --> 00:23:55,450 Agreed upon. 435 00:23:55,450 --> 00:23:58,119 The Traverse (as-Sirat): 436 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:02,210 It is the bridge extended across the expanse of Hellfire, 437 00:24:02,210 --> 00:24:07,210 over which people will pass according to their deeds in the worldly life. 438 00:24:07,210 --> 00:24:12,210 Whoever was more steadfast in adhering to the straight path and divine guidance in this world 439 00:24:12,210 --> 00:24:16,210 will cross the traverse of the Hereafter more swiftly: 440 00:24:16,210 --> 00:24:19,210 among them are those who pass like lightning, 441 00:24:19,210 --> 00:24:21,210 those who pass like the wind, 442 00:24:21,210 --> 00:24:24,210 those who pass like swift racehorses, 443 00:24:24,210 --> 00:24:26,210 those who sprint, 444 00:24:26,210 --> 00:24:28,210 those who walk, 445 00:24:28,210 --> 00:24:30,210 and those who crawl on hands and knees. 446 00:24:30,210 --> 00:24:35,210 The believers will cross this bridge at varying speeds, 447 00:24:35,210 --> 00:24:37,210 while the disbelievers 448 00:24:37,210 --> 00:24:41,210 will be snatched away by iron hooks as they attempt to cross it 449 00:24:41,210 --> 00:24:43,210 and cast into the Fire. 450 00:24:43,210 --> 00:24:46,210 And hadiths have explicitly reported this, 451 00:24:46,210 --> 00:24:49,210 so we believe in it and submit to it. 452 00:24:49,210 --> 00:24:51,880 Intercession (Shafa'ah) 453 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,940 Intercession in the Hereafter is of two types: 454 00:24:55,940 --> 00:25:00,940 one is exclusive to our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 455 00:25:00,940 --> 00:25:04,940 while the other belongs to the rest of the prophets, the truthful, 456 00:25:04,940 --> 00:25:07,940 the martyrs, and the righteous. 457 00:25:07,940 --> 00:25:12,160 As for our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 458 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,160 he possesses several intercessions. 459 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,160 Among them 460 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:21,160 is his greatest intercession, peace be upon him, for all the people gathered on the Day of Resurrection, 461 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,160 asking Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, to come to judge and decide between the servants. 462 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,160 This is the intercession from which all the other prophets will excuse themselves, 463 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:37,259 and it is the Praiseworthy Station (al-Maaqam al-Mahmud) that Allah promised His Messenger, peace be upon him. 464 00:25:37,259 --> 00:25:40,259 Among them is also his intercession, peace be upon him, 465 00:25:40,259 --> 00:25:43,259 for the people of Paradise to enter it. 466 00:25:43,259 --> 00:25:48,259 And among them is his intercession, peace be upon him, for his uncle Abu Talib, 467 00:25:48,259 --> 00:25:51,259 asking that Allah lighten his punishment. 468 00:25:51,259 --> 00:25:56,420 As for the intercession of the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous, 469 00:25:56,420 --> 00:26:01,420 it is their intercession for the believers, to the exclusion of the disbelievers, 470 00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:04,420 since Allah does not grant permission to intercede for a polytheist. 471 00:26:04,420 --> 00:26:10,420 It includes interceding so that some of the disobedient believers who deserve the Fire will not enter it, 472 00:26:10,420 --> 00:26:16,420 and interceding to bring out of the Fire those disobedient believers who have already entered it. 473 00:26:16,420 --> 00:26:19,420 This intercession has two conditions: 474 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:25,420 the first is the permission of Allah Almighty for the intercessor to intercede, 475 00:26:25,420 --> 00:26:32,420 as the Almighty said: "Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission?" 476 00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:37,509 and the second is His approval, Glorified be He, of the one for whom intercession is made, 477 00:26:37,509 --> 00:26:40,509 as conveyed by His saying, the Exalted: 478 00:26:40,509 --> 00:26:44,509 "He knows what is before them and what will be after them, 479 00:26:44,509 --> 00:26:47,509 and they cannot intercede except on behalf of one whom He approves." 480 00:26:47,509 --> 00:26:51,509 “He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth, and they quake for awe of Him.” (21:28) 481 00:26:51,509 --> 00:26:54,960 Paradise and the Fire 482 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,210 Part of faith in the Last Day 483 00:26:58,210 --> 00:27:01,210 is belief in Paradise and the Fire, 484 00:27:01,210 --> 00:27:03,210 and that they are the abodes of recompense. 485 00:27:03,210 --> 00:27:05,210 They both exist right now, 486 00:27:05,210 --> 00:27:08,210 everlasting and never to perish. 487 00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:10,210 Paradise is the abode of the God-fearing; 488 00:27:10,210 --> 00:27:13,210 none shall enter it except a Muslim soul. 489 00:27:13,210 --> 00:27:16,210 And the Fire is the abode of the disbelievers, 490 00:27:16,210 --> 00:27:18,210 and no monotheist will remain in it forever. 491 00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:23,210 All of this is firmly established by the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and consensus. 492 00:27:23,210 --> 00:27:28,210 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, saw both of them during the solar eclipse prayer, 493 00:27:28,210 --> 00:27:30,210 when they were displayed before him. 494 00:27:30,210 --> 00:27:32,400 The Signs of the Hour 495 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,809 The signs of the Hour 496 00:27:35,809 --> 00:27:39,809 are the portents of the Day of Resurrection that precede it and indicate its proximity. 497 00:27:39,809 --> 00:27:41,809 They are of two categories: 498 00:27:41,809 --> 00:27:44,809 first, the minor signs, 499 00:27:44,809 --> 00:27:48,809 which precede the Hour by long periods of time 500 00:27:48,809 --> 00:27:51,809 and are of the sort familiar to people, 501 00:27:51,809 --> 00:27:54,809 such as the taking away of sacred knowledge, the emergence of ignorance, 502 00:27:54,809 --> 00:27:56,809 and competing in the construction of tall buildings. 503 00:27:56,809 --> 00:27:59,809 Some of these signs have already appeared and passed, 504 00:27:59,809 --> 00:28:01,809 some have appeared 505 00:28:01,809 --> 00:28:04,809 and continue to recur successively, 506 00:28:04,809 --> 00:28:06,809 such as competing in tall buildings, 507 00:28:06,809 --> 00:28:09,809 and some have not yet appeared to this day. 508 00:28:09,809 --> 00:28:12,099 Second, 509 00:28:12,099 --> 00:28:14,099 the major signs, 510 00:28:14,099 --> 00:28:18,099 which are the monumental events that appear near the establishment of the Hour 511 00:28:18,099 --> 00:28:21,099 and are completely extraordinary and unfamiliar to people. 512 00:28:21,099 --> 00:28:26,099 These are the ten signs mentioned in the hadith of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 513 00:28:26,099 --> 00:28:28,099 concerning the onset of the Hour, 514 00:28:28,099 --> 00:28:29,099 wherein he said: 515 00:28:29,099 --> 00:28:34,099 "It will not be established until you see ten signs before it." 516 00:28:34,099 --> 00:28:38,099 He then mentioned the Smoke, the Dajjal, the Beast, 517 00:28:38,099 --> 00:28:40,099 the rising of the sun from its west, 518 00:28:40,099 --> 00:28:42,099 the descent of 'Isa ibn Maryam, 519 00:28:42,099 --> 00:28:44,099 Gog and Magog, 520 00:28:44,099 --> 00:28:46,099 and three major landslides: 521 00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:48,099 a landslide in the east, 522 00:28:48,099 --> 00:28:50,099 a landslide in the west, 523 00:28:50,099 --> 00:28:52,099 and a landslide in the Arabian Peninsula; 524 00:28:52,099 --> 00:28:56,099 and the last of that will be a fire emerging from Yemen 525 00:28:56,099 --> 00:28:58,099 that drives the people to their place of gathering. 526 00:28:58,099 --> 00:29:00,099 It was narrated by Muslim. 527 00:29:00,099 --> 00:29:05,099 Some scholars add the Mahdi to these signs, 528 00:29:05,099 --> 00:29:11,099 while others consider him among the minor signs that immediately accompany the major ones. 529 00:29:11,099 --> 00:29:14,220 The most apparent chronological order for these ten signs 530 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:16,220 is the emergence of the Dajjal, 531 00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:19,220 then the descent of 'Isa ibn Maryam, peace be upon him, 532 00:29:19,220 --> 00:29:22,220 then the emergence of Gog and Magog, 533 00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:24,220 then the three landslides, 534 00:29:24,220 --> 00:29:26,220 then the Smoke, 535 00:29:26,220 --> 00:29:29,220 then the rising of the sun from its west, 536 00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:31,220 then the Beast, 537 00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:34,220 and then the Fire that gathers the people. 538 00:29:35,420 --> 00:29:37,420 The Savior of Humanity 539 00:29:37,420 --> 00:29:42,470 Most sects and religious denominations believe 540 00:29:42,470 --> 00:29:46,470 that humanity has a savior who will come at the end of time 541 00:29:46,470 --> 00:29:50,470 to deliver it from the injustice and evil rampant on the earth. 542 00:29:50,470 --> 00:29:56,470 Every sect or denomination claims this savior for itself according to its own creed. 543 00:29:56,470 --> 00:30:02,500 The Jews call him the Messiah, the Mashiach, or al-Masih, 544 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:07,500 and they claim that he is the one foretold in the Torah of Musa, 545 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:09,500 and that he has not yet arrived. 546 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:14,500 Therefore, they rejected the Prophet of Allah, the Messiah 'Isa ibn Maryam, peace be upon him, 547 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,500 and do not believe in him. 548 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:19,539 But this awaited messiah of theirs 549 00:30:19,539 --> 00:30:22,539 is, in reality, the False Messiah (al-Masih ad-Dajjal), 550 00:30:22,539 --> 00:30:28,539 whom the Prophet, peace be upon him, informed us is one of the signs of the Hour, 551 00:30:28,539 --> 00:30:32,539 and whom seventy thousand of the Jews of Isfahan will follow. 552 00:30:32,539 --> 00:30:38,630 The Christians believe that the savior of humanity is 'Isa ibn Maryam, peace be upon him, 553 00:30:38,630 --> 00:30:42,630 and that he will descend once again at the end of time 554 00:30:42,630 --> 00:30:45,630 to rule the earth and kill the pagans— 555 00:30:45,630 --> 00:30:50,630 by which they mean the Muslims who do not believe in his divinity— 556 00:30:50,630 --> 00:30:54,630 and that he will rapturously lift the Christians into the clouds. 557 00:30:54,630 --> 00:30:59,700 The Rafidah claim that the savior is their awaited Mahdi, 558 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:01,700 Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-'Askari, 559 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:04,700 who they claim was born 560 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:08,700 and entered a cellar in Samarra during his childhood, 561 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:11,700 and will emerge at the end of time. 562 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:15,700 He will then, according to their claim, resurrect Abu Bakr and 'Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, 563 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:19,700 put them and the rest of the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, on trial, 564 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:23,700 and exact revenge upon them all on behalf of the Shi'a and the Ahl al-Bayt, 565 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:27,700 along with other such delusions and absurd fabrications. 566 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:33,759 The Zoroastrians have a savior named Saoshyant or Shahriyar, 567 00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:38,759 claiming he will restore the Persian Empire. 568 00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:43,920 Even secularists believe in the concept of human salvation: 569 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,920 you find the Americans seeing the salvation of the world 570 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,920 in adopting their capitalist values, 571 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,920 absolute freedom, and purported democracy; 572 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,920 while the atheist Communists see humanity's salvation 573 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,920 in abolishing private property, 574 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,920 eliminating class distinctions, 575 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,920 and ridding themselves of what they claim are the illusions of religion. 576 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,079 As for Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah among the Muslims, 577 00:32:11,079 --> 00:32:15,079 they know from the conceptually mass-transmitted (mutawatir ma'nawi) Sunnah 578 00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:18,079 that at the end of time there will emerge 579 00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:22,079 a man from the household of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 580 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:25,079 from the descendants of Fatimah, may Allah be pleased with her. 581 00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:29,079 His name will match the name of the Prophet, peace be upon him, 582 00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:34,079 and his father's name will match the name of the Prophet's father. 583 00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:37,079 Allah will rectify him in a single night 584 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:39,079 and support the religion through him. 585 00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:41,079 He will rule the earth for seven years, 586 00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:45,079 filling it with justice just as it had been filled with tyranny and injustice. 587 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:50,210 The Ummah will enjoy during his reign a prosperity the likes of which it had never experienced before. 588 00:32:50,210 --> 00:32:53,210 In his time, 'Isa, peace be upon him, will descend 589 00:32:53,210 --> 00:32:59,210 and pray behind him out of honor for the Ummah of Muhammad, peace be upon him. 590 00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:03,210 And 'Isa, peace be upon him, will at that time kill the False Messiah 591 00:33:03,210 --> 00:33:07,339 at the gate of Ludd in present-day Palestine. 592 00:33:07,339 --> 00:33:10,339 Among the authentic and explicit hadiths concerning the Mahdi 593 00:33:10,339 --> 00:33:14,339 is the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with him, 594 00:33:14,339 --> 00:33:18,339 that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 595 00:33:18,339 --> 00:33:21,339 "At the end of my Ummah, the Mahdi will emerge; 596 00:33:21,339 --> 00:33:23,339 Allah will send down abundant rain for him, 597 00:33:23,339 --> 00:33:25,339 the earth will bring forth its vegetation, 598 00:33:25,339 --> 00:33:28,339 he will distribute wealth equitably, 599 00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:30,339 livestock will multiply, 600 00:33:30,339 --> 00:33:32,339 and the Ummah will become great. 601 00:33:32,339 --> 00:33:34,339 He will live for seven or eight," 602 00:33:34,339 --> 00:33:36,339 meaning years. 603 00:33:36,339 --> 00:33:38,339 It was narrated by Abu Dawud, 604 00:33:39,339 --> 00:33:41,339 and al-Albani graded it authentic. 605 00:33:41,339 --> 00:33:45,750 And among the reports in the two Sahihs related to the Mahdi, 606 00:33:45,750 --> 00:33:47,750 without mentioning his name or title, 607 00:33:47,750 --> 00:33:49,750 is the hadith: 608 00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:54,750 "How will you be when the son of Maryam descends among you and your leader is from among you?" 609 00:33:54,750 --> 00:33:56,880 Agreed upon. 610 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:57,880 And the hadith: 611 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:04,880 "A group of my Ummah will not cease fighting upon the truth, remaining victorious until the Day of Resurrection." 612 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:05,880 He said: 613 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,880 "Then 'Isa ibn Maryam, peace be upon him, will descend, 614 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,880 and their leader will say, 615 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,880 'Come and lead us in prayer.' 616 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,880 But he will reply, 'No, 617 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,880 indeed, some of you are leaders over others— 618 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,880 an honor from Allah to this Ummah.'" 619 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,880 It was narrated by Muslim. 620 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,329 Nullifiers of Faith in the Last Day 621 00:34:27,329 --> 00:34:32,699 The nullifiers of faith in the Last Day can be summarized 622 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:37,699 as the denial of any of its matters necessarily known to be part of the religion, 623 00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:40,699 established by the Book and the Sunnah, 624 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:42,699 or doubting them, 625 00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:45,699 or ridiculing and mocking them— 626 00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:48,699 such as the matters of resurrection after death, 627 00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:50,699 the reckoning in the Hereafter, 628 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:52,699 and Paradise and the Fire, 629 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:54,699 and so forth. 630 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:56,699 Also included among the nullifiers 631 00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,699 is allegorically misinterpreting any of the matters of faith in the Last Day 632 00:35:00,699 --> 00:35:03,699 with esoteric explanations contrary to the truth, 633 00:35:03,699 --> 00:35:06,699 built upon frivolous illusions 634 00:35:06,699 --> 00:35:08,699 and arbitrary philosophical notions, 635 00:35:08,699 --> 00:35:10,699 such as claiming that the Hereafter 636 00:35:10,699 --> 00:35:14,699 is merely the transmigration of souls after each death 637 00:35:14,699 --> 00:35:17,699 and their transfer into other humans 638 00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:20,699 or even into the bodies of animals, 639 00:35:20,699 --> 00:35:24,699 as held by the Nusayris among the Batini sects, 640 00:35:24,699 --> 00:35:27,699 and like the interpretations of the philosophizers, 641 00:35:27,699 --> 00:35:31,150 the followers of Aristotle, regarding the bodily resurrection. 642 00:35:31,150 --> 00:35:34,150 The Effects of Faith in the Last Day 643 00:35:34,150 --> 00:35:38,659 Faith in the Last Day has 644 00:35:38,659 --> 00:35:40,659 numerous positive effects 645 00:35:40,659 --> 00:35:42,659 and immense fruits 646 00:35:42,659 --> 00:35:44,659 attained by the servant who believes in it. 647 00:35:44,659 --> 00:35:46,659 Among them: 648 00:35:46,659 --> 00:35:47,659 First, 649 00:35:47,659 --> 00:35:50,659 Certainty in Allah's justice and grace 650 00:35:50,659 --> 00:35:52,659 regarding recompense in both this world and the Hereafter, 651 00:35:52,659 --> 00:35:55,659 and that the wronged will receive justice against their oppressor, 652 00:35:55,659 --> 00:35:58,659 whether that takes place in this worldly life or in the Hereafter; 653 00:35:58,659 --> 00:36:02,659 and that doing good in this world never goes in vain, 654 00:36:02,659 --> 00:36:06,820 even if its fruits are not outwardly apparent at first glance. 655 00:36:06,820 --> 00:36:07,820 Second: 656 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:09,820 praising and thanking Allah, 657 00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:12,820 and extolling Him as He truly deserves, 658 00:36:12,820 --> 00:36:16,820 as a natural consequence of recognizing His sublime justice and grace. 659 00:36:17,070 --> 00:36:18,070 Third: 660 00:36:18,070 --> 00:36:21,070 realizing that the abode of the Hereafter 661 00:36:21,070 --> 00:36:23,070 is the true life, 662 00:36:23,070 --> 00:36:26,070 and that this worldly life is fleeting and short, 663 00:36:26,070 --> 00:36:29,070 no matter how long it may seem in human eyes. 664 00:36:29,070 --> 00:36:31,070 Allah Almighty said: 665 00:36:31,070 --> 00:36:33,070 “This life of the world is but a pastime and a game. Lo! the home of the Hereafter - that is Life, if they but knew.” (29:64) 666 00:36:33,070 --> 00:36:36,070 "...is nothing but diversion and play, 667 00:36:36,070 --> 00:36:38,070 and indeed, the home of the Hereafter— 668 00:36:38,070 --> 00:36:40,070 that is the true life, 669 00:36:40,070 --> 00:36:42,070 if only they knew." 670 00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:44,139 Fourth: 671 00:36:44,139 --> 00:36:46,139 establishing the balance of fear and hope 672 00:36:46,139 --> 00:36:48,139 within the heart of the believer, 673 00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:50,139 through which a person refrains 674 00:36:50,139 --> 00:36:52,139 from sins and injustices, 675 00:36:52,139 --> 00:36:55,139 and eagerly advances toward acts of obedience and virtues. 676 00:36:55,139 --> 00:36:57,199 Fifth: 677 00:36:57,199 --> 00:37:00,199 the soundness of the heart, along with its tranquility and steadfastness, 678 00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:04,199 in the face of worldly trials of ease and adversity; 679 00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:07,199 for when concern for the Hereafter dominates the servant's heart 680 00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:10,199 and he is certain of its reality and of the world's passing nature, 681 00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:13,199 he does not despair when calamities strike, 682 00:37:13,199 --> 00:37:16,199 nor does he become arrogant when blessings arrive; 683 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:19,199 rather, you find him patient and grateful, 684 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:23,199 hoping for the reward of that with Allah in the Hereafter. 685 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,389 Sixth: 686 00:37:25,389 --> 00:37:28,389 the heart’s purity from malice and envy; 687 00:37:28,389 --> 00:37:31,389 because certainty in the Hereafter and the longing for it 688 00:37:31,389 --> 00:37:34,389 make the servant indifferent to this vanishing world, 689 00:37:34,389 --> 00:37:39,389 which is the very cause of mutual envy and hatred among people. 690 00:37:39,389 --> 00:37:41,550 Seventh: 691 00:37:41,550 --> 00:37:43,550 the soul becoming filled with optimism, 692 00:37:43,550 --> 00:37:46,550 which remains its constant companion throughout life; 693 00:37:46,550 --> 00:37:48,550 for the most optimistic of people 694 00:37:48,550 --> 00:37:50,550 are those with the strongest faith 695 00:37:50,550 --> 00:37:52,550 in meeting Allah in the Hereafter. 696 00:37:52,550 --> 00:37:54,710 Eighth: 697 00:37:54,710 --> 00:37:57,710 a powerful drive to call people to Allah Almighty 698 00:37:57,710 --> 00:37:59,710 and strive in His cause 699 00:37:59,710 --> 00:38:01,710 with high resolve, 700 00:38:01,710 --> 00:38:03,710 unwavering determination, 701 00:38:03,710 --> 00:38:05,710 and sincere intention, 702 00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:09,710 seeking Allah's reward in the Hereafter for all of that, 703 00:38:09,710 --> 00:38:13,710 and out of compassion for people, wishing to spare them misery in the Hereafter. 704 00:38:13,710 --> 00:38:18,380 Summary of the understandings of Ahl al-Sunnah: