Sunday, June 7, 2020

Doctrines of Islam 12 (Eschatology)

Qur'an 


Death

God takes the souls at the time of their death, and those who have not died in their sleep. Then He retains those for whom He has ordained death and releases the others until a specified time. There are indeed signs in that for a people who reflect. (39:42)

No soul may die except by God's leave, at an appointed time. 3:145

Every soul shall taste death, and you will indeed be paid your full rewards on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is delivered from the Fire and admitted to paradise has certainly succeeded. The life of this world is nothing but the wares of delusion. 3:185

Wherever you may be, death shall overtake you, even if you were in fortified towers. 4:78

When death approaches anyone of you, Our messengers take him away and they do not neglect their duty. 6:61

Then the agony of death brings the truth: "This is what you used to shun!" 50:19

We have ordained death among you, and We are not to be outmaneuvered. 56:60

Say, "Indeed the death that you flee will indeed encounter you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the sensible and the Unseen, and He will inform you about what you used to do." 62:8

Spend from what We have provided you before death comes to any of you, whereat he will say, "My Lord, why did You not respite me for a short time so that I might have given charity and become one of the righteous!" But God shall never respite a soul when its time has come, and God is well aware of what you do. 63:10-11

Were you to see when the wrongdoers are in the throes of death, and the angels extend their hands saying: "Give up your souls! Today you shall be requited with a humiliating punishment because of what you used to attribute to God untruly, and for your being disdainful towards His signs." 6:93

Every soul shall taste death. Then you shall be brought back to Us. 29:57

Say, "You will be taken away by the angel of death, who has been charged with you. Then you will be brought back to your Lord." 32:11

No soul knows what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul knows in what land it will die. Indeed God is all-knowing, all-aware. 31:34


Barzakh

When death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord! Take me back, that I may act righteously in what I have left behind." By no means! These are mere words that he says. And ahead of them is a barrier (Barzakh) until the day they will be resurrected. 23:99-100

And do not call those who were slain in God's way "dead." Rather they are living, but you are not aware. 2:154

Do not suppose those who were slain in the way of God to be dead; rather they are living and provided for near their Lord, exulting in what God has given them out of His grace, and rejoicing for those who have not yet joined them from those left behind them that they will have no fear, nor will they grieve. 3:169-170


End of Times 

Certainly We wrote in the Psalms, after the Torah: "Indeed My righteous servants shall inherit the earth." 21:105



Day of Judgment

The day We shall roll up the sky, like the rolling of the scrolls for writings. We will bring it back as We began the first creation a promise binding on Us. That indeed We will do. 21:104

Do not suppose that God is oblivious to what the wrongdoers are doing. He is only granting them respite until the day when the eyes will be glazed, Scrambling with their heads upturned, there will be a fixed gaze in their eyes and their hearts will be vacant. Warn the people of the day when the punishment will overtake them, whereat the wrongdoers will say, "Our Lord! Respite us for a brief while so that we may respond to Your call, and follow the apostles." They will be told, " Did you not use to swear earlier that there would be no reverse for you." 14:42-44

So do not suppose that Allah will break His promise to His apostles. Indeed Allah is all-mighty, avenger. The day the earth is transformed into another earth and the heavens] as well [, and they are presented before Allah, the One, the All-paramount. On that day you will see the guilty bound together in chains, 14:47-49

Say, "It is God who gives you life, then He makes you die. Then He will gather you on the Day of Resurrection, in which there is no doubt. But most people do not know." 45:26

It is God who created you and then He provided for you, then He makes you die, then He will bring you to life. 30:40

So observe the effects of God's mercy: how He revives the earth after its death! Indeed He is the reviver of the dead, and He has power over all things. 30:50

It is He who gives life and brings death. So when He decides on a matter, He just says to it," Be!" and it is. 40:68

And when the Trumpet is blown, behold, there they will be, scrambling from their graves towards their Lord! 36:51

The day when the Caller calls to a dire thing, with a humbled look in their eyes, they will emerge from the graves as if they were scattered locusts. scrambling toward the summoner. The faithless will say, "This is a hard day!" 54:6-8

And if indeed you die or you are slain, certainly to God shall you be gathered together. 3:158

The day We shall set the mountains moving and you will see the earth in full view, We shall muster them, and We will not leave out anyone of them. 18:47

Among His signs is that you see the earth desolate; but when We send down water upon it, it stirs and swells. Indeed He who revives it is the reviver of the dead. Indeed He has power over all things. 41:39

When the sun is wound up, when the stars scatter, when the mountains are set moving, when the pregnant camels are neglected, when the wild beasts are mustered, when the seas are set afire, when the souls are assorted, when the girl buried-alive will be asked: for what sin she was killed. When the scrolls of the scriptures are unrolled, when the sky is stripped off, when hell is set ablaze, when paradise is brought near, then a soul shall know what it has readied for itself. 81:1-14

the day the Trumpet will be blown on that day We shall resurrect the guilty with blind eyes. They will whisper to one another: "You have stayed only for ten days." We know best what they will say, when the best of them in conduct will say, "You stayed only a day!" They question you concerning the mountains. Say, "My Lord will scatter them like dust." Then He will leave it a level plain. You will not see any crookedness or unevenness in it. On that day they will follow a summoner in whom there will be no deviousness. The voices will be muted before the All-beneficent, and you will hear nothing but a murmur. Intercession will not avail that day except from him whom the All-beneficent allows and approves of his word. He knows that which is before them and that which is behind them, but they cannot comprehend Him in their knowledge.  All faces shall be humbled before the Living One, the All-sustainer, and he will fail who bears the onus of wrongdoing. But whoever does righteous deeds, should he be faithful, shall neither fear any wrong nor detraction. 20:102-12

Webpage links


Day of Judgment (wikishia)



Barzakh (Wikishia)

Life in Barzakh (wikishia)
Book Excerpts 

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