Why The Day of Resurrection?

[Silent Spectator]

Asslamualaikum,

Dear brothers, I m going to present some shocking knowledge of a scholar about the day of resurrection, Let's have it in parts.

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.

Regards.

[Silent Spectator]

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.] [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.] [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.



Regards.

[Silent Spectator]

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.’] [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 looking the same as

when they went to sleep. Therefore, their answer was: [We have remained a

day or part of a day] [Al-Kahf, 18: 19]




If they awoke and found that their hair had turned white or their youth had

faded away or their nails and beards had extraordinarily grown long, they

would have never said: [We have remained a day or part of a day] [Al-Kahf,

18: 19] and would have realized that they slept for long years.



But they did not notice a change in their appearance because they measured

the time they slept with the time that man usually sleeps, that is few hours,

or a whole day when extremely exhausted.



Therefore, measuring the time they slept according to the normal time man

usually sleeps is a proof that all during their sleep they were no more

governed by time. Having no instrument that might indicate the time they

spent sleeping, they measured it based on normal human habit.



The Truth, all praise and glory is to Him, sets to us another example in the

Noble Qur’an about the relativity of time, and how it acts as a measure

that Allah subjects whomever He wills to it and stop it from influencing

whomever He wills.



It is the story of the righteous man from the Children of Israel, who was

passing by a village visited with punishment. Allah, The Exalted and Ever-

Majestic, says what means:



[Or [consider such an example] as the one who passed by a township which

had fallen into ruin. He said, "How will Allah bring this to life after its death?" ]

[Al-Baqarah, 2: 259]



This righteous man wondered about the Power of Almighty Allah in reviving a

village completely ruined. So, what did Almighty Allah do?



The glorious Ayah says what means:



[So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years; then He revived him] [Al-

Baqarah, 2: 259]



Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, wanted to show one of the

signs of absolute Power, thus He caused him to die for a hundred years then

He brought him to life.



And here we must again contemplate the story of the People of the Cave,

whom Allah, The Exalted and Ever-Majestic, had ruled out of time while still

alive and they remained sleeping for more than three hundred years. Allah,

Blessed and Exalted is He, did not cause them to die, therefore Allah, all glory

is to Him, says what means:



[And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned

them to the right and to the left] [Al-Kahf, 18: 18]



His Saying [while they were asleep] [18: 18] signifies that they were alive

but asleep for He did not say “Dead.� And his Saying [And We turned

them to the right and to the left] [18: 18] indicates to us that Almighty Allah

wanted to keep their bodies safe and healthy during the long time they slept,

for when any person suffers from an illness that confines him to bed for a

long time we have to turn his body to protect him from ulcers and infection.



And that is the wisdom behind turning the patient, which we did not realize

except after the progress of science. We also learnt the bad effect of long

periods of bed confinement without turning the body.

Regards.

[Silent Spectator]

Non-governance by time

Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, gave us in Surah Al-Kahf an example of how He rules the living out of time whenever He wills. He also gave us another example in Surah Al-Baqarah concerning the dead and how time no longer has dominion over them, for the life of Barzakh2 from the time of death till the hour of resurrection is timeless.



Therefore, we read the Saying of Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, which means:



[So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years; then He revived him. He said, "How long have you remained?" The man said, "I have remained a day or part of a day."] [Al-Baqarah, 2: 259]



When Allah caused that righteous man to die for a hundred years then He resurrected him, the man was not sensible of the time that elapsed from death to resurrection. Therefore, when Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, asked him: ["How long have you remained?" The man said, "I have remained a day or part of a day."] [Al-Baqarah, 2: 259] by analogy to the time that man usually sleeps. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, then told him what means: ["Rather, you have remained one hundred years.] [Al-Baqarah, 2: 259]



Afterwards, Allah, be ever gloried His Majesty and Might, wanted to manifest to him His absolute Power in two of His creations. He showed him the food that did not change though a hundred years passed away, still it remained as it was, neither spoiled nor did time has any effect on it. Then, He showed him the donkey that he used to ride, which was subjected to the law of time and it became decayed bones.



Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, says what means: [Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time. And look at your donkey; and We will make you a sign for the people. And look at the bones [of this donkey] – how We raise them and then We cover them with flesh."] [Al-Baqarah, 2: 259]



The man looked at his food and found it fresh, then he looked at his donkey and found that it died, rotted and turned into decayed bones. In this way he saw the effect of time on his donkey, because this could not have happened on a single day but it had to consume a long time.

Regards..