through are actually purification and
raising them to higher levels so at a
certain point there are two trumpets
which obviously this is not like you
know these are things that we don't
really understand but these are
approximations and and we have this in
the judeo-christian tradition also the
the first blast
is what's called the our the Sam and I'm
going to talk about this on the last
lecture I have which is about the end of
time at the moment it literally means
the moment the great moment when the
world comes to an end and it says in the
Quran that like the the the cosmos was
expanded at the end it will be
contracted and rolled up like a scroll
right which you know the modern
physicists talk about the Big Crunch
which is you know when it all goes back
to this initial and that's consistent
with with the Quranic view that there is
a rolling up of the cosmos and it's also
the heat death because everything heat
like the it says that the oceans boil
over everything ends in it in a massive
heat death so when this moment comes
every person that's on the earth is
going to be killed at that point it's
all over and and then the second is that
what's called the bath which is the
resurrection and then what happens then
is a very mapped out scenario in the
Islamic tradition at this point all of
the souls have left the dunya and the
next stage they go to which is the
bottle
and then you have the bath you have the
the what's called the neva
which causes the resurrection now at the
point of resurrection all of the souls
are bought brought to a plane and that's
what Auto phat is a preparation for that
they're all brought to the plane and
then according to the tradition
everybody is naked and they stand this
is this is where they wait for what's
called the that he said the reckoning
and according to the tradition it says
the waiting is 500 years and and people
are in it five I'm in the pod on talks
about you know a year with God is like
fifty thousand of years a thousand in
different verses so the idea of time is
very different in this realm it's not
like it isn't where we are here and
according to the Quran when they're
asked how long did they tear in the
earth they'll say a day or part of a day
that's what our lives on earth will seem
like in relation to the next world now
at this point according to the Islamic
tradition all of the souls some are
shaded by their actions and others are
literally up in sweat drowning in their
own sweat because it's so intense and at
this point after waiting an incredible
amount of time and it literally says
that people are going in and out like
waves in and out it's a very there's a
lot of confusion there's a lot of it's
it's actually the descriptions are
terrifying with the exception of people
that were the good people in this world
and then what happens is people say
let's go ask the prophets to get us out
of this and the tradition says they go
to Adam the first man and they say help
us intercede for us and he says nefzi
NFC my own soul my own soul
so he refuses he said I can't do
anything for you people go to their
mother they go to their father they say
nefzi NFC this is the day where nobody's
thinking about anybody else because the
soul is looking at infinity and in the
Quran it says when when we enter into
this realm the first thing the soul says
is Yahweh Lana member tottenham in
Medina oh woe to us who has woken us
from our sleep this is what the
messengers promised this is what they
told us they were truthful in telling us
this and this is the promise of the
merciful and they use that attribute
because that's what they want now in the
world people like Thomas Jefferson said
I used to beg for divine justice and
still when I looked at others and then I
start examining my own soul and started
asking for mercy right so this is the
day where people aren't thinking about
justice they're thinking about divine
mercy and what happens is they go to
each of the prophets they go to Noah
they go to Abraham they go to Moses each
one of them says nefzi NFC and they give
a reason that relates to stories that
are mentioned in the poem and finally
all of humanity according to the Islamic
tradition goes to the Prophet Muhammad
all of you met the Muslims the Buddhists
the Hindus everyone goes to the Prophet
Muhammad and that's why in the Quran he
is called a mercy to all the worlds
because on this day when they go to him
he according to our tradition is
uniquely the one who says Allah this is
my place and he takes the intercession
and it said that he enters into the
divine presence prostrates praises and
then it says
to him raise your head ask and you will
be given intercede and you will have
intercession and he asks for the
judgment because people are so terrified
in this waiting period they just want
the judgment to happen you know it's
like people that would rather just I
just tell me what's going to have I
can't wait anymore and so they that they
move to the next stage which is that he
sab because of this shafa'a
so so the intercession occurs here now
it's interesting the the Muslims
identify in the in the New Testament and
one of the names of the Prophet in the
Islamic tradition is parallels which is
the Muslims identify the Paraclete that
is mentioned in John 16 in the gospel
when he says I'm leaving but another
comforter is coming after me the word in
Greek Paraclete means comforter but
actually the first meaning of it is
intercessor it's the one who intercedes
who gives comfort and the Muslim
traditionally have believed that that is
the Prophet Mohammed the Christian
belief is that it's the Holy Spirit and
at this point they go now to the
reckoning that he Sam now there are
people that will not get up and remember
from the Muslim perspective the all the
traditions the righteous of every
tradition is going to be in a good
situation on this day this is not you
know I mean the prophets community is
only one community there are many
previous communities of prophets and
those people that were following their
prophets living according with their
prophet each one has their place and
that's why according to the hadith they
line up behind the people that they were
behind including the bad ones like false
prophets and say everybody's going to be
with the people they followed and those
people
the burden of leading people astray so
you know the Marxists are going to be
behind Karl Marx the whole it's it's the
Nazis are going to be behind Adolf
Hitler everybody's going to be with
what's that a big sign right
materialists over here well yeah I mean
there's a history of materialism so
there's there's definitely the first
philosophers of materialism the Greeks
have you know there in fact if you read
I really like Prometheus press I don't
know if anybody knows about them do you
know about Prometheus press it's a New
York public they publish everything
against religion right there they're
like total materialists and they can't
stand with it they publish books called
like the problem of God right why I am
NOT a Muslim and they're actually really
interesting because it's it's always
important to get reality checks right
from really radically different
perspectives you know I like to do that
for my own you know just okay I see how
you're seeing it's helpful to clarify
your own understandings to listen to
something that's so different from what
you know it's a really good thing to do
so at this point then at the hey sab
which is the reckoning and this is why
there's a hadith that says reckon
yourselves before you're taken to
account in other words if you do your
work in this world you don't have to
deal with it in the next world so
there's a tradition in Islam of what's
called Mahasabha and it's also a
Christian tradition they're they're
they're orders that do this as a
practice in Christianity of at the end
of the day taking oneself to account and
really looking at one's actions during
the day if they were good you praise and
if they're bad you ask forgiveness right
and this is also penitence and you know
confession in the Catholic tradition is
going and getting this stuff off your
chest admitting
you know I did these things and then
having some way of atoning those wrongs
and then what happens is there is a
record on this day of everything your
entire life and according to the Imam at
Ozaki people will watch their lives in
front of them like a film they'll
literally watch their entire life and
there's a hadith that God will veil
people who for his veiling because
having to see your life you know all the
things that you did so in other words
there are edited versions right there's
a divine editing that can take place
where things are removed from your life
if if you ask them to be removed with
sincerity and at each stage there will
be testimony against you the hands
according to the Quran testify the feet
testament they ask them how will they
speak and he said the one who gave them
who made your tongue speak will make
your hand speak and the genitals
testified the tongue test because all of
them are afraid well the body is that we
don't want they know what's coming and
they're they're afraid and so they're
all owning up and they're saying he made
us do this in other words they don't
want to be taken to account which is
also there's an indication of this in
the Gospels when Jesus said if your
right hand offends thee then cut it off
for it's better to enter the kingdom of
heaven Maine right then than to go into
the fire with that you know it and and
that is obviously a spiritual severing
it's the it's not you know it's not
literal right I mean they're probably
some people out there they take that
stuff out and
oddly center yeah those are values that
when you enter into Islam everything is
erased with the exception of debt so so
in that case we may believe that all the
seems to happen for anything that you
have not taken on a literally removed
from your slate completely and then what
happens is there's what's called a
sahifa which is your the book of your
life right the book of your life and
your actions are weighed in in scales
and you'll find this in Egyptian
mythology and tradition in the Egyptian
Book of the Dead the way and there are
many glyphs about this right the
weighing of the basket and the soul
being in the basket and the actions
weighed and you know I had a in the same
teacher professor Kramer you know
mention the you know that isn't that
from that Egyptian mythology and there's
absolutely no indication that that
information was available in the 7th
century in Arabia and the way the
Muslims would look at that
is that much of Mythology is in fact
remnants of prophetic traditions and in
fact much of mythology you know some
religious scholars differentiate between
mythos and myth you know mythos is is
truth related in symbolic tradition and
myth is like fables and fairy tales and
stories whereas mythos is is something
that's true
and so people then are given their their
books and the book of their life will
either be given in the right hand or in
the left hand if it's given in the right
hand then it's an indication that they
they were successful in this reckoning
now there's also at this point there's
intercession so there are people that
intercede for other people in all the
traditions the righteous people of the
traditions can intercede for other
people and the first to intercede are
the prophets they will intercede for
their communities so Jesus will
intercede for the Christians Moses will
intercede for the Jews and and then
there are people from the community that
reached very high spiritual stations
that will be given permission to
intercede also and then after this the
Me's on the wing the next stage is so
you have the weighing here and you have
the people of the right and the people
of the left the people of the left
go to the place of ultimate divine
alienation which is the fire and the
people of the right go to the place of
ultimate divine intimacy which is the
garden now the Quran says that the
people that go to the garden inherit
they inherit places in the garden
because every human being according to
the Islamic tradition has a place
allotted to them in the fire and a place
allotted to them in the garden every
human being has property in both places
and they will sell their property from
one or the other
those whose free their souls in this
world and sell their place in the fire
then their places are taken up by others
those who free themselves in this world
and purchase according to Quran it says
we have purchased the souls of the
believers and their wealth and against
it is paradise that's the that's the
bargain that's the that's the
transaction that you give your soul to
God and God gives you the garden and so
now there's also a point here which is
known as the the hole and this is a
massive according to the Prophet
Muhammad it extends more than the
distance of between Yemen and Syria and
it is a watering place in which those
who drink from it will never have thirst
after that and he will those who were
the most righteous from his community he
will actually give them drink from his
own hand and this is followed by
what's known as the the qantarah which
is a bridge and people see the hellfire
and go over this bridge to paradise now
according to the hadith the Prophet
Muhammad said that the most punished
person who had the worst life in in this
world in the next world he will be asked
did you ever know grief sorrow or pain
and he'll say I never knew grief sorrow
or pain in other words just entering
into this divine presence all
remembrance of the suffering of the
world is removed and also the person the
wretched one who had the most pleasure
in this world is asked the same question
in the fire did you ever know pleasure
and he can't remember any pleasure in
the world
so these these are the final the these
are the according to the Islamic
tradition the final oppose then and that
day which is the day of judgement is
known as the last day there's there's no
day after it is there any questions
twelve O'Clock that's pretty good I
didn't even look at my watch everything
comes to an end
see this is the realm now the soul
according to the Muslim belief knows all
of these things what's happened in this
realm is were in the realm of
forgetfulness and this is why in the
quran in surah turn off the the QAF
chapter it says a young chef Narang
kelapa vibhava
waka chef Nawab autocad Yamaha D we have
removed the veils from your inner sight
and now your understanding is
penetrating see people will know all of
these things right people are going to
know these things
is there God is a fire in the city well
this possibility right now there people
do according to some tuition there were
people that will taste the fire and then
come out of it and there's two views and
these are not dominant views but there
and it's interesting because there are
two extremes who meet at this place
there's the view of eben tamiya who's a
very famous scholar from the 9th century
Syria Damascus who actually believed
that the fire went out he believed that
ultimately the mercy overrides and that
was his bleep the other extreme was
somebody who he didn't even consider a
Muslim at one point in his life is the
position of even our abhi the Andrew
Seon philosopher Sufi philosopher who
said that the fire also eventually
became it went from a DAB to a dub ad
that means punishment ad that means
pleasure so in other words that
ultimately there was the soul was
purified that is not the dominant belief
the majority belief of the Muslim
theologians is that that there is
infinite residing in these in these
abodes so thank you very much