ADHIKR

The Day on which everyone should have to answer individually about each moment of this worldly life from his/ her fifteenth age till the death in front of his Lord Allah—Ever watchful, without slumber or sleep, having no beginning or ending, without having similes or examples, Irresistible, Omnipotent and Omniscient. That is the Day of Judgment. On that Day skins, hearings and sight of disbelievers who are the enemies of the Lord will witness against them as told in verses 41: 19-24. Verse 36: 65 says: On that Day We shall set a seal on their mouth, their hands will speak to Us and their feet will bear witness to all they were earning. On that Day the Earth will submit its record as told in verse 99: 4. In brief, one-third of verses in the Book reveals the scene of the Day of Judgment.

Through verses 2: 48 and 123, by addressing the Israelis Lord Allah teaches the entire mankind: You heed a Day when no soul will compensate any other soul in any way, no intercession will be accepted from her, nor will any alternative be taken for it, they will not be helped. Verse 2: 281 says: You heed a Day when you will be brought back to Lord Allah, then every soul will be paid in full according to whatever it has earned, and they will not be treated unjustly. As told in verse 3: 9, those who have wide knowledge will pray as: "Our Lord, you will gather mankind together on a Day, there is no doubt about it, Lord Allah will never go back from His promises". Verse 16: 111 says: "On that Day each soul will come to plead for itself and every soul will be repaid according to whatever it has been doing and they will not be wronged”. Read together 3: 30. It is told in verse 78: 40 that, on the Day when the man will see whatever his own hands have earned, the disbeliever will wail: If I were only dust! Read together 4: 42. As per verses 4: 41, 16: 89 and 39: 69 on the Day of Judgment Prophets and believers will be brought as witnesses against each community and people. Moreover, each individual’s record fastened upon the neck as told in verses 17: 13-14; 18: 49; 23: 62-64; 36: 12; 45: 28-29; 58: 6 and 78: 27-29 will be produced as an Illuminating Spread Open Book and will be said to him: You read your Book, Today you yourself are enough to reckon your account. 

Verses 16: 38-39 says: They have sworn by Lord Allah with their most solemn oaths that the Lord will not resurrect anyone who dies; but surely, it is a promise truly binding on Him even though most men are not knowing it; in order to explain to them what they have been differing over and those who disbelieved should know that they had been telling lies. Verse 45: 22 says: The Lord has created Heaven and Earth for a true purpose in order to reward every soul whatever it has been earning and they will not be harmed. Verse 34: 3 says: Those who disbelieved say: The Hour will not come upon us; you say: Of course, by my Lord—the Knower of unseen! It will come to you. Not a thing in an atom’s weight either in the Heaven or on the Earth, or anything less than that or larger except it is not being recorded in a Manifest Book. Verses such as 6: 59; 9: 51; 10: 61; 11: 6; 22: 70; 27: 75 and 57: 22 also say: Nothing is happening in the horizons and in you unless it is recorded in a Manifest Book before it takes place. That Manifest Book is the Three Time Knowledge—Adhikr as told in verses 7: 52 and 16: 89. As per verses 3: 91; 5: 36; 10: 54; 13: 18 and 39: 47 it is told that those who hide Adhikr (the Balance and Trust to keep the Earth in its equilibrium) if they own whatever is on Earth plus as much as that in order to redeem themselves from the punishment by means of it on the Resurrection Day, it would not be accepted from them, they will have a painful punishment. In both verses 9: 55 and 85 Lord Allah says to the believers: Do not let the hypocrites’ wealth or children dazzle you, Lord Allah wants to punish them by means of them during the worldly life and they have to perish themselves as disbelievers. To such hypocrites, Adhikr will add filth to their existing filth and they already have died as disbelievers as told in verse 9: 125. The hypocrites who forge lie about Lord Allah and their followers who reject Adhikr, at the time of death they will witness against their own soul that they were Kafirs as explained in verse 7: 37, and on the Day of Judgment as explained in verse 6: 130.

Verse 5: 109 says, on that Day the Lord will assemble His Messengers and ask: What response you have received? They will answer: We possess no knowledge, You are the only knower of all unseen things! Read together 7: 6. In verses 5: 116-120 there is a description of the scene in which Messenger Jesus will be specially questioned. Through verses 6: 28; 32: 12 and 40: 11 it is warned: The Mujirims who do not utilize Adhikr and do not give to others It, when they are stood before the Fire, they will say: Woe unto us! Our Lord, if we might only be sent back and had not rejected our Lord’s verses, and we had become believers.

The death scene of the wrongdoers is portrayed in verse 6: 94 as: "You have all come to Us individually now just as We created you in the first time; you have left behind whatever We bestowed on you, nor do We see your intercessors along with you whom you claimed as the Lord’s associates for your affairs; and all relations between your partners are cut off from you, and what you have been claiming has merely led you astray". Verses 18: 48, 19: 80, 95 also teach that everyone has to reply to the Lord individually. At the time of death, believers will meet the Lord pleasantly, whereas the disbelievers will meet Satan gloomily as told in verses 75: 22-24. Verse 83: 15 says: ‘Indeed, they will be screened off from their Lord on that Day’. From this verse, it is understood that the Mujirims will not see the Lord on the Day of Judgment. 

Verses 38: 55 and 59-64 say: The wrongdoers who are serving the Satan will have an evil place of final return. To those who went first to the Hell, the Lord will say: Here is a troop rushing to join with you. Then those who are in Hell will say: No welcome for them, truly they should be burnt in the Fire. The followers will say: No, you also, no welcome for you. It is you who have come before us; how evil is this place to stay in! The followers will say: "Our Lord! They are our ancestors, add to them the double punishment in the Fire. They will ask: What happened to us? Here we don’t see men whom we used to consider among the evil persons, did we treat them in ridicule or have our eyes failed to perceive them? Certainly, that is just and true that the people of the Fire will argue with each other". 

Verses 37: 50-56 say: The dwellers of Paradise will discuss with one another about their friends in the worldly life. One of them will say: I had a friend on the Earth who used to ask me as ‘are you among those who testify the Truth? Do you believe that we will be called to account when we are died and became dust and bones?’ Then the Lord will ask: Would you like to see him? Then he will look down and will see that friend in the midst of the Hades. Then the dweller in the paradise will say to that friend: By Lord Allah! You would have ruined me if there had not been my Lord’s Favor—Adhikr; and I would have been made to appear with you. Verse 31: 33 says: Oh mankind! You heed your Lord and dread the Day when no parent will benefit for his child, nor will any offspring benefit in any way for his parent; Lord Allah’s promise is true, so the worldly life shouldn’t let to deceive you, nor even let the deceiver (Satan) deceive you concerning the Lord. On that Day everyone will flee from his brother, mother, and father, mate and children. All of them will have enough to suffer very much of their own affairs. Some faces will be beaming on that Day laughing and rejoicing, while other faces will be covered with grime on that Day. Soot will overshadow them; such are the hypocrites and Fujjar as told in verses 80: 34-42. Through verses 70: 11-14 it is warned that It is a Day when Mujirims will desire to ransom himself from that Day’s torment through his children, his wife, his brother, his family circle which has sheltered him, and everyone who is on the Earth if might then save him. Read together 43: 67-69.

In verse 17: 72 it is warned that whoever was blind towards Adhikr in this world, he/ she will be blind in the Hereafter. In verses 89: 23-24 also there is a warning that on the Day when Hell is brought, man will remember that how better it would have been if he had used the Book Dhikra, and he will regret that he wasted his life in this world. Read together 18: 100-101 and 44: 10-14. Without being a believer with the Permission of the Lord mentioned in verse 10: 100, no answer will be given for his prayer and all his deeds will be in vain as told in verses 2: 186; 7: 8-9; 18: 103-106; 25: 23 and 47: 8-9.

Verses 36: 53-54 say: There will be only a single blast and then they all will be assembled to Our presence. On that Day no soul will be harmed in any way, and you will be rewarded only for what you have been doing. Verses 36: 55-58 continues: Indeed, on that Day the inhabitants of the Paradise will be happy. They and their spouses will relax on coaches in shady nooks; they will have fruits there and they shall have anything they request. Peace will be a greeting from their Merciful Lord! Verses 36: 59-64 say: You step aside Today, you Mujirims! Didn’t I hold covenant with you oh the children of Adam not to serve the Satan, indeed, He is an open enemy of yours; and to serve Me alone, that is the Straightpath? He has led a numerous mob of you astray, then were you not utilizing your intelligence? This is the Hell which you were threatened with! Be roasted in it Today because you had been disbelieving.

Therefore, when we recite the third verse of Surath Fatiha, we should have to pray to the Lord by the soul to include us among the dwellers of the paradise mentioned in verses 36: 55-58, and not to include among the dwellers of the Hell mentioned in verses 36: 59-64. After saying the Lord through verses 82: 13-16: Certainly, the virtuous shall be in the bliss and the Fujjar will be in the Hades, they will be roasted there on the Day of Judgment; they will never be getting out of It, He asks through verses 82: 17-18: What do you know about the Day of Judgment? Again, what do you know about the Day of Judgment? Then He says in verse 82: 19: It is the Day when no soul will have the power to do any help or harm to another. That day all commands will be with Lord Allah only! On the Day of Judgment, the whole of the Earth will be in Lord’s left hand and the Heavens will be rolled up in His right hand, then He will say: I am the Monarch, I am the Arrogant and I am the Dictator. Where are the monarchs on the Earth? Where are the arrogant? Where are the dictators? On that Day all of them will be presented before the Lord as naked, barefooted and without circumcised. It will be asked: Who holds control of today? Allah alone, the Dictator. Read verses 39: 67 and 40: 16.

Verses 14: 48-51 say: On the Day the Earth will be changed to different Earth and so will be the Heavens. All the men will be exposed before Lord Allah Who rules everything. On that Day you can see the Mujirims (madmen) bound together in fetters. Their garments there will be of liquid tar and faces will be covered with the fire. That day has been fixed so that the Lord has to reward each soul according to its earning; indeed, the Lord is swift in Reckoning. Read together 11: 18-23. 

Verses 7: 50-51 say: “The inmates of the Fire will call out to the inhabitants of the Paradise as ‘you pour some water over us or anything which the Lord has provided you with!’ They will reply: The Lord has forbidden both of them to the disbelievers who took their religion as a time pass and for amusement; the worldly life deceived them. Today We have forgotten them just as they forgot about the meeting of this Day of theirs and they were repudiating with Our verses”. 

Therefore, those who wish to escape from the punishment of the hellfire on the Day of Judgment should utilize Adhikr as the Safeguard against the Hell and the Ticket to Paradise in this world.