THE END OF ONE WHO DOES NOT ADHERE TO ISLAM
As it has been made clear to you in this book that Islam is the religion of Allah, that it is the true religion, that it was the one preached by all Prophets and Messengers; Allah has prepared great reward in this world and the Hereafter for whoever believes in it and threatened whoever disbelieves in it with severe torment.
Since Allah is the Creator, the Possessor and Disposer of all this universe, and you, man, are just one of His creatures; He created you, and subjected to you all that is the universe, ordained His Law for you and commands you to obey Him. If you therefore believe, obeys His Commandment and abstain from all that He forbids you, you will attain what He promises you of the everlasting bliss in the Hereafter and you will be happy in this world with all that He will endow on you of all kinds of favours; you will then be like the wisest men and the purest of them in soul; the Prophets, Messengers, righteous people and the favoured angels.
But if you disbelieve, and disobey your Lord; you will lose your worldly life and your Hereafter and expose yourself to His wrath and punishment in this world and the Hereafter. You will then be like the most wicked of all creatures, the most defective in intelligence and the most debased in mind: the devils, corrupt people and false deities and transgressors, just to mention a few.
Let me now tell you something of the consequences of disbelief in detail:
1. Fear and lack of security: Allaah promises complete security in this world and the Hereafter for those who believe in Him and follow His Messengers. He says,
“Those who believe and confuse not their belief with wrong, for them there is security and they are the guided.” (Al-An’am 6:82.)
Allah is the Giver of security, the Watcher over His creatures, the Possessor of all that is in the universe. If He loves a slave of His because of his belief, He gives him security, tranquillity and peace, but if a slave of His disbelieves in Him, He withdraws tranquillity and security from him and you will not see such a person but afraid of his fate in the Hereafter, afraid for his own self from calamities and diseases and afraid for his future in this world. That is why the insurance market insures lives and properties for lack of security and lack of having trust in Allah.
2. Difficult life: Allah created man, subjected to him all that is in the universe and portion out for every creature his share of sustenance and lifespan. Hence you see the bird going out of its nest to look for its provision and then picks it. It moves from a branch of the tree to another and sings in most melodious tone. Man is also one of these creatures for whom Allah has portioned out his provision and lifespan. If he therefore believes in his Lord and stands firm on His Law, Allah will give him happiness and stability and He will make his matters easy for him, even if he does not possess more than the least means of livelihood.
If he however disbelieves in his Lord and feels too big to worship Him, He will make his life straitened and make him suffer from sorrow and distress even if he has all means of comfort and enjoyment at his disposal. Don’t you see the great numbers of suicide victims in countries in which all means of affluence are guaranteed for their citizens? Don’t you see all kinds of furniture and mats used for the enjoyment of this life? The cause of all this extravagance is the vacuity of the heart from faith, feeling of constraint and hardship and an attempt to dismiss all these worries with all different means. Allah says the truth in His Word,
“But whoever turns away from My Reminder, verily, for him is a life of hardship and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection.” (Taa Haa 20:124.)
3. He will live in continuous war with his own soul and with the world around him.
This is because, his soul is created upon Islamic Monotheism. Allaah says,
“Such is the way of Allah upon which He created mankind.”
His body surrenders to its Lord and moves according to His order, but the disbeliever insists on going against his own nature, and lives his voluntary life in rebellion against his Lord. Although his body surrenders to the will of the Creator, his own voluntary will is in opposition.
He will be in constant war with the world around him in the sense that, all this universe right from its greatest galaxy to its smallest insect, moves according to the way which Allah has ordained for it. Allah says,
“Then He (Allah) rose over towards the heaven when it was smoke and said to it and to the earth: ‘Come both of you willingly or unwillingly,’ They both said: ‘We come willingly.'”(Fussilat 41:11.)
The universe loves him who agrees with it in submission to Allah and hates him who opposes it. The disbeliever is the recalcitrant in this universe for he makes himself an opponent to his Lord and contender with Him, that is why it is appropriate for the heavens and the earth and all other creatures to hate him and his disbelief and atheism. Allah says,
“And they say: ‘The Most Gracious (Allah) has begotten a son.’ Indeed, you have brought forth (said) the terrible thing, whereby the heavens are almost torn, and the earth is split asunder, and the mountains fall in ruins, that they ascribe a son to the Most-Gracious. But it is not suitable for (the majesty) of the Most-Gracious that He should beget a son. There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto Most Gracious as a slave.” (Maryam 19:88-93.)
He says about Pharaoh and his hosts,
“And the heavens and the earth wept not for them, nor were they given a respite.” (Ad-Dukhaan 44:29.)
4. Living a life of ignorance:
For disbelief is ignorance, rather the greatest ignorance; because the disbeliever is ignorant of his Lord. He sees this universe that was created by his Lord in the most wonderful way, he sees in himself the greatness of Allah’s deed and yet he is ignorant of the Creator of this universe and the Constructor of his own self; is this not the greatest ignorance?
5. Living a life of one who wrongs himself and all that is around him:
This is because, he subjected his own self for purposes other than that for which he was created. He does not worship his Lord but worship others. Injustice is to put a thing in a place to which it does not belong; and which type of injustice is greater than directing acts of worship to those who do not deserve them. Luqman has told his son while explaining the awfulness of polytheism,
“O my son! Join not in worship others with Allaah. Verily, joining others in worship with Allaah is a great wrong indeed.” (Luqman 31:13.)
It is also injustice for the people and other creatures around him; because he does not acknowledge the right of Him to Whom right is due. On the Day of Resurrection, every man or animal he has wronged will stand before him asking Allaah to avenge for him.
6. He exposes himself to the wrath of Allaah:
He exposes himself to the calamities and afflictions as immediate punishment for his disbelief. Allah says,
“Do then those who devise evil plots feel secure that Allah will not sink them into the earth, or that the torment will not seize them from directions they perceive not? Or that He may catch them in the midst of their going to and from (in their jobs) so that there be no escape for them (from Allah’s punishment)? Or that He may catch them through gradual diminishing (of the wealth and health). Truly, your Lord is indeed Full of Kindness, Most-Merciful.” (An-Nahl 16:45-47.)
He also says,
“And a disaster will not cease to strike those who disbelieved because of their (evil)deeds or it settles close their homes, until the Promise of Allaah comes to pass. Certainly, Allaah breaks not His Promise.” (Ar-Ra’d 13:31.)
He says in another verse,
“Or did the people of the towns then feel secure against the coming of Our punishment in the forenoon while they were playing?” (Al-A’raf 7:98.)
This is the fate of every man who turns away from Remembrance of Allaah. Allaah tells us of the punishments of past nations who were disbelievers,
“So, we punished each (of them) for his sins; of them are some of whom We sent a violent wind, and of them were those who were overtaken by torment – awful cry, and of them were some of whom We caused the earth to swallow and of them were some whom We drowned. It was not Allaah Who wronged them, but they wronged themselves.” (Al-Ankabut 40:9)
7. Failure and loss will be his lot: Because of his wrong, he loses the greatest thing with which the hearts and souls enjoy, which is knowing Allah, meditating in Him and feeling tranquillity with Him. He also looses the world, for he lives there a wretched and confused life and he loses his own soul for which he amasses the wealth of this world; for he subjects it for a purpose different from that which it was created for. He thereby does not attain with it happiness in this world, for he makes it lived in misery and caused it to die in misery and it shall be raised up among the miserable. Allah says,
“As for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their own selves.” (Al-A’raf 7:9.)
He will also loose his family, for he lived with them on disbelief in Allaah and they will also be like him in misery and hardship and their fate will be Fire. Allaah says,
“The losers are those will lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection.” (Az-Zumar 39:15, Shooraa 42:45.)
On the Day of Resurrection, they will be led to Fire, and evil is it as a resting place. Allaah says,
“(It will be said to the angels): ‘Assemble those who did wrong, together with their spouses and what they used to worship instead of Allaah and lead them on to the way of Flaming Fire.'” (As-Saffat 37:22-23)
8. He will live as a disbeliever in his Lord and a denier of His blessings: For Allaah created him from nothing and showered on him favours, how can he then worship, befriend and thank others besides Him? Which ingratitude is greater and more heinous than this?
9. He will be denied real and purposeful life: This is because the man who deserves life is the one who believes in his Lord, knows his goal, recognizes his fate and is certain of his resurrection. He thereby gives right to whom it is due. He does not suppress truth nor harm a creature. He then lives the life of happy people and attains good life in this world and the Hereafter. Allaah says,
“Whoever works righteousness – whether male or female while he (or she) is a true believer, verily, to him (or her) We will give a good life.” (An-Nahl 16:97.)
And in the Hereafter, his reward will be,
“Pleasant dwellings in Eden Paradise; that is indeed, the great success.” (As-Saf 61:12.)
But whoever lives in this world like animals, such does not know his Lord or his goal and fate. His only aim is to eat, drink and sleep. What then is the difference between him and other animals? He is even in greater error than animals. Allaah says,
“And surely, we have created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have hearts wherewith they understand not, and they have eyes wherewith they see not, and they have ears wherewith they hear not (the truth). They are like cattle, nay even more astray; Those! They are the heedless ones.” (Al-A’raf 7:179.)
He also says,
“Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like cattle – nay, they are even further astray from the path.” (Al-Furqan 25:44.)
10. He abides forever in the torment: This is because the disbeliever moves from a torment to another. He goes out of this world – after he has tasted all its agonies and afflictions – to the Hereafter. In the first stage of the Hereafter, the angels of death come upon him and before them come the angels of torment who will give him his deserved punishment. Allaah says,
“And if you could see when the angels take away the souls of those who disbelieve (at death); they smite their faces and their backs.” (Al-Anfal 8:50.)
Then his soul departs and when he is put in the grave, he meets a greater torment. Allaah says about the People of Pharaoh,
“They are exposed to Fire, morning and afternoon and on the Day when the Hour will be established, (it will be said to the angels): ‘Make Pharaoh people enter the severest torment'” (Ghafir 40:46)
On the Day of Resurrection, when the creatures are raised up and the deeds are exposed and the disbeliever sees that Allaah has accurately enumerated all his deeds in that book about which He says,
“And the book of record will be placed and you will see the sinners (disbelievers) fearful of that which is (recorded) therein. They will say: ‘Woe to us! What sort of book is this that leaves neither small thing nor a big thing but has recorded it with numbers!'” (Al-Kahf 18:49.)
Here, the disbeliever will wish to be dust. Allaah says,
“The Day when man will see that (the deeds) which his hands have sent forth, and the disbeliever will say: ‘Woe to me! Would that I were dust.'” (An-Naba 78:40.)
Because of the horror of that Day, man will wish that he owns all that is in the earth, so that he can ransom himself with it from the torment of that Day.
“And those who did wrong; if they had all that is in the earth and therewith as much again, they verily would offer it to ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection from the evil torment.” (Az-Zumar 39:47.)
Allah also says,
“The sinner would desire to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by his children; and his wife and his brother and his kindred who sheltered him, and all that are in the earth, so that it might save him.” (Al-Ma’arij 70:11-14.)
For, that abode is that of recompense and not of wishful thinking. Man must therefore, get a reward for his deed; if it is good, he gets good reward and if it is evil, he gets rewarded with punishment. And the worst punishment that a disbeliever may meet on the Day of Resurrection is that of Fire in which Allaah has provided different kinds of retribution for its dwellers so that they can taste the torment of their deeds. Allaah says,
“This is the Hell which the sinners (disbelievers) denied. They will go between it and the fierce boiling water.” (Ar-Rahman 55:43-44.)
He also informs us of the garments of the dwellers of Hell,
“As for those who disbelieved, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling water will be poured down over their heads. With it will melt (or vanish away) what is within their bellies as well as their skins; and for them are hooked rods of iron.” (Al-Hajj 22:19-21.)
By Dr. Muhammad bin Abdullah As-Suhaym
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