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miles, or it may be, only short distances. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." No doubt it obeys certain physical Laws
established by Allah, but how these Laws are interlocked, one with another! Meteorology, gravity, hydrostatics and
dynamics, climatology, hygrometry, and a dozen other sciences are involved, and no man can completely master all
of them, and yet this relates to only one of the millions of facts in physical nature, which are governed by Allah's
Knowledge and Law. The whole vegetable kingdom is primarily affected by Rain. Themention of Wombs brings in the
mystery of animal Life, Embryology, Sex, and a thousand other things. Who can tell-to take man alone-how long it will
remain in the womb, whether it will be born alive, what sort of a new individual it will be,-a blessing or a curse to its
parents, or to Society? (31.34)
3626 "Earn" here, as elsewhere, means not only "earn one's livelihood" in a physical sense, but also to reap the
consequences (good or ill) of one's conduct generally. The whole sentence practically means; "no man knows what
the morrow may bring forth." (31.34)
3627 See the five Mysteries summed up in n. 3625 above. The argument is about the mystery of Time and Knowledge. We
are supposed to know things in ordinary life. But what does that knowledge amount to in reality? Only a superficial
acquaintance with things. And Time is even more uncertain. In the case of rain, which causes vegetable life to spring
up, or in the case of new animal life, can we answer with precision questions as to When or How or Wherefore? So
about questions of our life from day to day or of our death. These are great mysteries, and full knowledge is with Allah
only. How much more so in the case of the Ma'ad, the Final House, when all true values will be restored and the
balance redressed? It is certain, but the When and the How are known to Allah alone. (31.34)
40:59 - The Hour will certainly come: therein is no doubt: yet most men believe not. 4433
4433 "The Hour" is the crown and consummation of man's life on this earth,-the gateway to the Hereafter. (40.59)
30:12 - On the Day that the Hour will be established the guilty will be struck dumb with despair. 3518
3518 The Hour will be established: in due time the Hour will come when Judgment will be established, and the seeming
disturbance of balance in this world will be redressed. Then the Good will rejoice, and the Guilty, faced with the
Realities, will lose all their illusions and be struck dumb with despair. (30.12)
THE DAY:
51:12 - They ask "when will be the Day of Judgment and Justice?"
51:13 - (It will be) a Day when they will be tried (and tested) over the Fire!
37:21 - (A voice will say) "This is the Day of Sorting Out whose truth ye (once) denied!" 4047
4047 The Day of Judgment is the day of sorting out. Cf. xxxvi. 59. Good and evil will finally be separated, unlike the
apparently inexplicable conditions in the present probationary life, when they seem to be mixed together. (37.21)
69:15 - On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass
86:9 - The Day that (all) things secret will be tested.
1:4 - Master of the Day of Judgment.
THE SCENE:
20:108 - On that Day will they follow the Caller (straight): no crookedness (can they show) him: all
sounds shall humble themselves in the presence of (Allah) Most Gracious: nothing shalt thou
hear but the tramp of their feet (as they march). 26322633
2632 The Caller: the angel whose voice will call and direct all souls. (20.108)
2633 A beautiful personification of hushed Sound. First there is the loud blast of the Trumpet. Then there is the stillness and
hush of awe and reverence: only the tramp of the ranks marching along will be heard. (20.108)
21:47 - We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment so that not a soul will be dealt with
unjustly in the least. And if there be (no more than) the weight of a mustard seed We will bring
it (to account): and enough are We to take account. 27072708
2707 Not the smallest action, word, thought, motive, or predilection but must come into the account of Allah. Cf. Browning
(in Rabbi Ben Ezra): "But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main
account; All instincts immature. All purposes unsure. That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account;
Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act. Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never
be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (21.47)
2708 The literalism of Sale has here excelled itself: he translates, "and there will be sufficient accountants with us"! What is
meant is that when Allah takes account, His accounting will be perfect: there will be no flaw in it, as there may be in
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