Wonders Before The Arrival Of Qiyamat

Wonders Before The Arrival Of Qiyamah
Knowledge of the hereafter

People asked the impeccable as to what will be the length of the gap between the first trumpet (killing) and the second one (making all alive)? It is mentioned in narrations that Hazrat replied: Forty years. According to another report it will be a period of four hundred years. As per yet other narrations, wonderful events (as mentioned by us earlier) like splitting of skies and their breaking into pieces and earthquake and crushing of mountains into dust and the flaring up of oceans etc will take place during the said period. Then will come the Divine Command for raining. So it will rain for forty years continuously all over the entire earth.

Blowing Of The Second Trumpet

After all living things will die and after the intermediate period passes, the first one to become alive will be Israafeel who will have to blow the trumpet for the second time. Taking the trumpet to his mouth, Israafell will announce: O the souls! Come out of your scattered bodies. O fleshes and O worn out bones and O hair! All of you come together so that your account may be taken. Run and rush speedily to account for your deeds.

Ayyuhal…Lil Hisaab.

Then it will be revealed to the earth: Throw out whatever is inside you.

Wa Ukhrijat… (Surah Zilzal: 99, V: 2).

Thereafter earth will, through severe jerks, throw out all the particles of bodies lying in it. In short, all the particles of bodies will come together and retake the form of their earlier bodies. Soul be put into them once again and all will rise up at once. There is no deterrent or impossibility in the collection of particles and the entrance of spirit (soul) in them after the second formation of bodies. For God Almighty, there is no difference in the affair of creating one person and the recreation of crores of people: Maa Khalqukum…Wahidah (Surah Luqman: 31, V: 28).

Translation: The creation of you all and (after your death) making you alive is just like the creation and making a man alive after making him die.

God will command and all become alive and gather at once.

Thank God Who Fulfilled His Promise

Though all the earlier and the latter will come together in the grand field of Mahshar their appearance and talk will be different. The obedient and faithful servants of God will, while coming out from their graves, will be praising and thanking their Lord Who fulfilled His promise and held Qiyamat so that they may get rewards of their good deeds.

Al Hamd…Wa'Dah (Surah Zumar: 39, V: 74).

Translation: Praise and thanks for God Who made His promise true.

But, on the other hand, there also will be people who will lament regretfully: Wa Hasrata. Alas! Who made us rise from our graves?

Ya Wai Lana…Marqadina (Surah Ya Seen: 36, V: 52).

Translation: Alas! Who woke us up from our places of sleep? According to some narrations, one of their legs will be in the grave and the other out of it and they will stand their spell bound for three hundred years. This will be the beginning of the chastisement.

How Will They Raise Their Heads From Graves?

One day, Jibreel came to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his household) and asked: Would you like to observe the condition of people on the Day of Gathering? Hazrat replied: Yes. Jibreel, the honest angel, took the Holy Prophet to the graveyard of Baquee (Medina). He kicked a grave and said: 'Getup at the Order of your Lord. The grave splitted at once and a man with a radiant face raised his head from the grave saying: AL Hamd…Wa'Dah (39:74).

Thereafter, he kicked in another grave and said: Rise up at the command of your Lord. At once, another man with a very ugly and frightened face came out of this grave and said: Ma Hasrata, (Alas!) Jibreel said: The faithful and the deniers (kafirs) will rise up from their graves.

* The Hereafter - Ma'ad. Chapter 3. By Ayatullah Dastghaib Shiraazi (q.s.).