The reality of belief in the Last Day
Q: What is meant by belief in the Last
Day?
A: Praise be to Allaah.
What is meant by belief in the Last Day is:
Firmly believing that everything that Allaah has told us about in
His Book and that His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) has told us about what will happen after death, will
indeed happen and come to pass. That includes believing in the
signs of the Hour which will happen before the Last Day; in death
and things that accompany it when a person is on his deathbed; what
comes after death, namely the trial of the grave and torment or
blessing therein; the Trumpet-blast and resurrection; the standing
and terrors of the Day of Resurrection; the details of the
gathering and reckoning; Paradise and its delights, the greatest of
which will be looking upon the Face of Allaah; Hell and its
torments, the most severe of which will be their being veiled from
seeing their Lord. And belief in the Last Day includes acting in
accordance with what is implied by these beliefs.
If this belief is firmly established
in a person's heart, it will bear great fruits, including the
following:
1 - The desire to do acts of obedience and
worship, and to strive hard in doing so, in the hope of attaining
the rewards of that Day.
2 - Fear of committing sin or approving of it, for
fear of the punishment of that Day.
3 - The believer will be consoled for whatever he
misses out on of worldly luxuries and delights, because of his hope
for the delights and rewards of the Hereafter.
We ask Almighty Allaah to bless us with sincere belief and
unshakeable certainty of faith… Ameen.
See A'laam al-Sunnah al-Manshoorah,
110; Sharh al-Usool al-Thalaathah by Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen,
98-103.
Sheikh Muhammed Salih
Al-Munajjid
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