The Inevitability of the Last Judgment: "The Final Weighing of Deeds"

“Except for the theme of monotheism, the Quran speaks more of the coming Day of Judgment than of any other topic. Confessing the Shahadah — "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God" — and believing in the accountability of all humans before God are the cement which holds Islam together.

Muhammad, among other things, came to warn us of a time when truth would be known, when the thoughts and intentions of the heart would be revealed. He earnestly proclaimed as inevitable a day when accounts would be settled and when scales would be balanced.

Fazlur Rahman, in an oblique paraphrase of sura 50:22, said that Judgment Day is the "Hour when every human will be shaken into a unique and unprecedented self-awareness of his deeds; he will squarely and starkly face his own doings, not-doings, and mis-doings and accept the judgment upon them. . . . "

Something like a Final Judgment or Day of Reckoning is a naturally corollary of monotheism. If there is one God who knows all and sets standards of behavior for the world, there must be a time of judgment, or the edifice crumbles of its own weight.”

Ira G. Zepp Jr., A Muslim Primer



 

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