Monday, May 21, 2012

Closer and closer

Truly you [people] love this fleeting world and neglect the life to come. On that Day there will be radiant faces, looking towards their Lord, and on that Day there will be the sad and despairing faces of those who realize that a great calamity is about to befall them. Truly, when the soul reaches the collarbone; when it is said, ‘Could any charm-healer save him now?’ when he knows it is the final parting; when his legs are brought together: on that day he will be driven towards your Lord. He neither believed nor prayed, but denied the truth and turned away, walking back to his people with a conceited swagger. Closer and closer it comes to you. Closer and closer still… Does the human think he will be left alone? Was he not just a drop of spilt-out sperm, which became a clinging form, which God shaped in due proportion, fashioning from it the two sexes, male and female? Does He who can do this not have the power to bring the dead back to life?

[Surah Qiyamah - Chapter 75, Verses 20-40]

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