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Abu Hurairah,
may Allah be pleased with
him, reported:
The people asked the Messenger of Allah (may peace
be upon him): Messenger of Allah, will we see our
Lord on the Day of Resurrection? Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) asked: Do you feel any
trouble in seeing the moon on the night when it is
full? They said: Messenger of Allah, no. He (the
Messenger) further asked: Do you feel any trouble
in seeing the sun, when there is no cloud over it?
They said: Messenger of Allah, no. He (the Holy
Prophet) said: Verily you would see Him like this
(as you see the sun and the moon). Allah will
gather people on the Day of Resurrection and say:
Let every people follow what they worshipped.
Those who worshipped the sun would follow the sun,
and those who worshipped the moon would follow the
moon, and those who worshipped the devils would
follow the devils. This Ummah (of Islam) alone
would be left behind and there would be hypocrites
too among it. Allah would then come to them in a
form other than His own form, unrecognizable to
them, and would say: I am your lord. They would
say: We take refuge with Allah from you. We will
stay here till our Lord comes to us, and when our
Lord would come, we will recognize Him.
Subsequently Allah would come to them in His own
Form, recognizable to them, and say: I am your
Lord. They would say: You are our Lord. And they
would follow Him, and a bridge would be set over
Hell; and I (the Holy Prophet) and my Ummah would
be the first to pass over it; and none but the
messengers would speak on that day, and the Prayer
of the messengers on that day would be: O Allah!
grant safety, grant safety! In Hell, there would
be long grapples like the thorns of Sa'dan. He
(the Holy Prophet) asked: Have you seen Sa'dan?
They replied: Yes, Messenger of Allah. He said:
Verily those (hooks) would be like the thorns of
Sa'dan, but no one knows their size except Allah.
These would seize people for their misdeeds. Some
of them would escape for their (good) deeds, and
some would be rewarded for their misdeeds till
they get salvation. When Allah would finish
judging His bondsmen, and decide, out of His
Mercy, to take out of Hell such people as He
pleases. He would command the angels to bring out
those who had not associated anything with Allah;
to whom Allah decided to show mercy among those
who would say: There is no god but Allah. They
(the angels) would recognize them in the Fire by
the marks of prostration, for Hell-Fire will
devour everything (limb) of the sons of
Adam
except the marks of prostration. Allah has
forbidden the Fire to consume the marks of
prostration. They will be taken out of the Fire
having been burnt, and the water of life would be
poured over them, and they will sprout as seed
does in the silt carried by flood. Then Allah
would finish judging among His bondsmen; but a man
who will be the last to enter Paradise will remain
facing Hell and will say: O my Lord! turn my face
away from Hell, for its air has poisoned me and
its blaze has burnt me. He will then call to Allah
as long as Allah would wish that he should call to
Him. Then Allah, Blessed and Exalted, would say:
If I did that, perhaps you would ask for more than
that. He would say: I would not ask You more than
this, and he would give his Lord covenants and
agreements as Allah wished, and so He would turn
his face away from the Fire. When he turns towards
Paradise and sees it, he will remain silent as
long as Allah wishes him to remain so. He will
then say: O my Lord! bring me forward to the gate
of Paradise. Allah would say to him: Did you not
give covenants and agreements that you would not
ask for anything besides what I had given you. Woe
to you! O son of
Adam,
how treacherous you are! He would say: O my Lord!
and would continue calling to Allah till He would
say to him: If I grant you that, perhaps you will
ask for more. He will reply: No, by Your
greatness, and he will give His Lord promises and
covenants as Allah had wished. He would then bring
him to the gate of Paradise, and when he would
stand at the gate of Paradise, it would lay open
before him, and he would see the bounty and the
joy that is in it. He would remain quiet as Allah
would desire him to remain silent. He would then
say: O my Lord, admit me to Paradise. Allah,
Blessed and Exalted, would say: Did you not give
covenants and agreements that you would not ask
for anything more than what I had granted you? Woe
to you! son of
Adam,
how treacherous you are! And he would say: O my
Lord, I do not wish to be the most miserable of
Your creatures. He would continue calling upon
Allah till Allah, Blessed and Exalted, would
laugh. When Allah would laugh at him, He would
say: Enter Paradise. When he would enter, Allah
would say: State your wish. He would express his
wishes till Allah would remind him (the desire of)
such and such (things). When his desires would be
exhausted Allah would say: That is for you and,
besides it, the like of it also. |