The Last Day

The Last Day: the cards as text

Aqidah. Draft written with AI help: awaiting scholar review.

  1. Card 1

    At death, a person asks to be sent back. The answer is no.

  2. Card 2

    "My Lord, send me back"

    The Qur'an pictures the dying asking to go back to do good, and being told no. At death the soul passes into barzakh, a barrier between this life and the next, until the resurrection.

  3. Card 3

    Qur'an 23:99-100

    حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَ أَحَدَهُمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتُ قَالَ رَبِّ ٱرۡجِعُونِ ۝٩٩

    99 Until when death comes to one of them, he says, “My Lord, send me back,

  4. Card 4

    Lesson: In the Qur'an's picture, death ends the chance to act, not existence.

  5. Card 5

    The Day everyone is raised

    The barrier lasts until the Last Day. Then the world ends. All people are raised. Every deed is shown. Surah az-Zalzalah says whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, and an atom's weight of evil will see it.

  6. Card 6

    Qur'an 99:6-8

    يَوۡمَئِذࣲ يَصۡدُرُ ٱلنَّاسُ أَشۡتَاتࣱا لِّيُرَوۡاْ أَعۡمَٰلَهُمۡ ۝٦ فَمَن يَعۡمَلۡ مِثۡقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيۡرࣱا يَرَهُۥ ۝٧ وَمَن يَعۡمَلۡ مِثۡقَالَ ذَرَّةࣲ شَرࣱّا يَرَهُۥ ۝٨

    6 On that Day all people will come forward in separate groups to be shown their deeds. 7 So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it, 8 and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it.

  7. Card 7

    Lesson: In surah az-Zalzalah, nothing is too small to count.

  8. Card 8

    The scales, and God's mercy

    Once every record is shown, deeds are weighed. Paradise and Hell are real. But the Qur'an and hadith stress God's mercy: His mercy outweighs His anger, and no one enters Paradise by deeds alone.

  9. Card 9

    Qur'an 101:6-9

    فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ۝٦ فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةࣲ رَّاضِيَةࣲ ۝٧ وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ۝٨ فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةࣰ ۝٩

    6 Then the one whose scales of good deeds are heavy, 7 will have a pleasant life. 8 But the one whose scales of good deeds are light, 9 his abode will be the abyss.

  10. Card 10

    Lesson: Islamic teaching holds fear and hope together: deeds are weighed, and God's mercy outweighs His anger.

  11. Card 11

    Reflect: What does surah az-Zalzalah say about an atom's weight of good?

    Answer: Whoever does it will see it. Whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it.

  12. Card 12

    The end of The Last Day.

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