ISLAMIC STUDIES

HU-101

Lecture - 3
The Day of Judgement

Maj Roshan Zamair

Mce Nust
 SEQUENCE

• Is it compulsory to believe in it?

• Names of Qiyamah in Quran
• Signs of Qiyamah
• Segmentation of Signs
• The Gathering
• The calculation
• The balance
• Is it compulsory to believe in it?
“Anyone who does not believe in Allah, His
angels, His Books, His messengers, or the Last
Day, is surely misguided” (Qur’an, 4:136)
 Names of Qiyamah in Quran
There are more than 30 names mentioned in Qur’an .
‫الساعة‬- As-Saa'ah [The Hour] (6:31)
‫الواقعة‬- Al-Waqi'ah [The Event] (56:1)
‫الحاقة‬- Al-Haqqah [The Reality] (69:1)
‫القارعة‬- Al-Qari'ah [The Striking Hour] (69:4)
‫الطآمة الكبرى‬- At-Taammatul-Kubra [The Greatest
Catostrophe] (79:34)
‫الصاخة‬- As-Sakhkhah [The Trumpet Blast] (80:33)
 Signs of Qiyamah
 No one know when the hour will come
 May Allah enable us to recognize and heed
the Signs, and strengthen us in the times of
distress.
 Are they waiting for anything except the Hour,
to come to them suddenly? But its Signs have
already come!" (Al-Qur’an, Surah
Muhammad)
 Segmentation of Signs

• Minor Signs

• Major Signs

• Final Signs
 Minor Signs
• The prophet ( SAW) mentioned more than fifty minor
signs of the Hour in many of his Ahadeeth.
• Many of these signs have already occurred but some
have not.
• Here are some of the signs according to hadiths.
• The coming of the last Prophet, Muhammad
(s.a.w.).
• Prophet Muhammad once said:
• “I was near the Hour.”
• Women will outnumber men, eventually fifty women to each
man. (Bukhari & Muslim)

• Earth quakes will increase (Bukhari and Muslim)

• Good deeds will decrease (Bukhari)

• Female singers and musical instruments will become popular (Al-

Tirmidhi)

• People will believe in astrology (in the stars)

• Time will pass rapidly. Time will have no blessings (Bukhari)

 Cont..
• Corruption of the Muslims
• Arabs competing to build tall buildings
• Slaves who give birth to kings
• Abundance of wealth
 Minor Signs not yet happened
• Arabia becomes green
• The earth will spill forth its hidden treasures
• Restriction of Madeenah
• The Mahdi to fill the earth with justice for
seven years
 Major Signs
1. The Smoke: 40 days
2. Dajjal (False Messiah):
3. Origin of ‘Issa (Peace be upon him)
4. The Emergence of Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj
5. Mankind’s Return to Ignorance
6. Destruction of the Kaabah
7. The Rising of the Sun from the West
8. Emergence of the animal that speaks
9. A fire which will gather the people
 The Gathering
“On the Day when the earth will be transformed
into another earth and the heavens
transformed and they will all appear before
Allah, The One, The Irresistible.” (Quran 14:48)
• Believers who do good shall have no fear no
grief
• Those who rejected and wrong themselves
and others in great distress
 The Calculation
• The Books
• Witnesses
• Questioning
• Weighing of Deeds
• Perfect Justice
• Each person responsible for their own sin
• 70,000 enter paradise without any reckoning
• Concealing the sin of the sincere believer
• Right hand or Left Hand receiving of book
 The Balance
• Vast Measuring Capacity
• Precise
• Deeds weighed
• Person’s heart weighed
• La ilaha illah Allah
• Most heavy is good character