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THE RESURRECTION DAY
Book Title The Resurrection Day
Book AuthorMohamed Metwalli Al-Sharawii
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THE RESURRECTION DAY

Why is the day of resurrection

Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, created this universe and appointed for everything a birth and an end.

 The earth has a birth and an end; the sun has a birth and an end and similarly everything in the universe has a birth and an end. Allah possesses an ultimate infinite power in His universe; nothing is above or beyond His Will. This universe we live in is created by means.

That is to say that Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, has ordained that everything in this world must be attained through means

The universe is built of two elements: an element that reacts and gives you without means: as the sun, the air, the rain and other things.

And another that reacts through you …if you adopts the necessary means created by Allah in the land it will give you, and if you do not it will not give.

If you cultivate the land, water it, sow the seeds therein, it will give you abundant fruits. But if you do not adopt the means, the land will give you nothing.

Also, the riches found within the mountains and inside the earth, if you do not dig them out you will not have them.

This world of having through means is what we call “worldly life”, which is the life created by Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, through means. When worldly life terminates and the Day of Resurrection comes, the time appointed to this world ends and a new creation of Allah starts in which everything is directly from Allah, The Exalted and Ever-Majestic.

In Paradise once anything crosses your mind you shall find it before you; by the Power of Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, the means end and the bestowal is directly from The Originator.

Everything is from Allah

Moving from the world of having through means to that of having everything directly from Allah is preceded by what Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, calls “The Day of Resurrection”. On that Day the world of means ends after it has accomplished its mission and a new life, different from the one we live on the earth, begins.

In it there is either everlasting pleasure or everlasting torment. A life without death but eternity. A life without choices but recompense. A life without deeds but the matter there belongs completely to Allah.   

Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, has informed us in His Law that worldly life encloses a trial, an affliction and a test: a trial of faith in Allah, a test of love for Allah within hearts and an affliction that tries the obedience and disobedience of the servant. We all pass through this trial, whoever succeeds Allah will make him rejoice in Paradise and whoever disbeliefs, disobeys and acts arrogantly the torment of Hellfire awaits him.

The Day of Resurrection is the appointed time for us all. We shall come out of the graves to stand before Allah. Surely, a Day whereon mankind will be gathered together, and a Day which will be witnessed by all. 

The Truth1, Blessed and Exalted is He, called resurrection “a day”. To some people the day is the time from sunrise to sunset. And to others it is from sunrise to sunrise.

However, it is a definition insignificant to discuss, because it is rather relative. It is an adverb of time as they say; something that helps us measure time in worldly life. But why is it mentioned with resurrection?

The Truth, all praise and glory is to Him, with Whom there is no time, qualified resurrection as a day. But how many are the hours of that day? How long is it? Does it end by sunset or what?

To understand the meaning of that day, we have to discuss the concept of time. Time is a creation of Allah. A creation that we got used to live by in this world. Everything in the life of this world is measured by time.

We have a birth day on which we are born, a death day on which we shall die, and days we live in worldly life. Everything in our life has an appointed time. Today we will do certain tasks, tomorrow others, and next year others. We will construct this building within three years, for example, and we will travel to Europe or America next year.

Time is the measure of our life; the measure of the events we pass through. Time is among the veils of the Unseen. It veils before us the past, knowing not what has happened in it except by reading history books or narrators relate it to us.

1 Al-Haqq: one of the Beautiful Names of Allah.

Time owns but we do not

Time also veils the future. We do not know what will happen tomorrow, or next year. All we know is the present we live, the past we have already lived and the future which we do not know what will Allah judge in it.

Time owns us but we do not. None of us can live outside time; none can remain a child or a youth and never grows old. And no human can bring back time to correct his mistakes. If he committed a murder or an accident happened to him he could not bring back the past to avoid it.

As we have already said time owns man but he does not. That is the value of time in our life. But Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, is the Creator of time – to Him there is no time. There is no past beyond His Knowledge or a future outside His Decree or new arising events.

All the universe and whatever is in it until the Day of Resurrection and after it is encompassed within the Knowledge of Allah. Things He only reveals and does not initiate because He already possess knowledge of it.

When you read the Ayah saying what means:

His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.[1] [Yâ Sîn, 82: 36]

You must pay attention to His Saying ‘it’, which means that this thing already exists within the Knowledge of Allah. He, all praise and glory is to Him, only reveals it to us by the Command ‘Be’ and the thing becomes apparent and known to us.

Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, wants us to realize that time is relative. Allah subjects whom He wills to it and does not subject whom He wills. There are certain stages where man is ruled out of time.

This in order for us to grasp the true meaning of time and how it acts as a measure of events. When these events stop, our sense of time also stop and it loses its meaning. 

When man sleeps and temporarily becomes still, the meaning of time for him stops. On awakening he does not know how many hours he has slept unless he slept and the sun was shining and he awoke to find it dark, or slept while it was dark and awoke to find the light of the sun everywhere. We all experience this: losing the sense of time during sleep.

But Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, out of mercifulness towards His servants, clarified to us that He can remove man out of time completely.

That is to say, time no longer has control over man or acts as the measure of his life.

When you read the story of the People of the Cave you understand this sign. The People of the Cave were youths who believed in their Lord and sought refuge in the cave from the tyranny of the disbelievers, so what happened to them?

Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, says what means: And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.[1] [Al-Kahf, 18: 25]

Which means that they remained sleeping within the cave for three hundred and nine years. Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, covered up their sense of hearing (causing them, to go in deep sleep), thus no noise could affect them or the voice of a wild animal beside the cave might awake them, because the ear is the summoning tool.

 If you wish to awaken a sleeping person you call him loudly and he awakes. Also, if a person is sleeping and a loud voice is produced near him he will wake up terrified.

How long have you remained?

Those youths slept for more than three hundred years then they awoke, the question is: how should they look like if time had affected them?

Let us suppose that before sleeping they were at least black-haired, when they awoke their hair should have turned white or their beard grew long or their youth withered away.

But Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, made them no longer governed by time. Therefore, their first question upon awakening was as the Noble Qur’an tells us: 

And similarly, We awakened them that they might question one another. Said a speaker from among them, ‘How long have you remained [here]?’ They said, ‘We have remained a day or part of a day.’[1] [Al-Kahf, 18: 19]  

The mere question “How long have you remained?” indicates that these youths were out of the ruling of time, why? Because on awakening and looking at one another they did not notice any change in their appearance since the hour they slept. They rather found themselves

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