CHAPTER III: Souls in the Hereafter

The Universe's Creation, Death, and Resurrection

Introduction:

1- Each human soul has two bodies; apart from the body of flesh created from mud (water + dust/earth), its new, eternal body of the Hereafter will consist of deeds performed by this soul during its test within its lifetime on earth; such deeds are part of energy.

2- Hence, since this energy of deeds recorded by angels will turn into a garment which will clothe the soul in the Hereafter, the creation, death, and resurrection of the soul are directly linked to the universe's creation, death, and resurrection; this is part of the map of creation and its beginning and end as per the Divine Will of the Lord God the Creator Who is never estimated and valued, as He should be, by polytheists who insist on deifying mortals. May the Lord Allah be Exalted above all polytheistic notions they ascribe to Him. 

3- Thus, the polytheists who are unjust towards their Lord God the Creator deny the Last-Day events mentioned in the Quran as they fashion other tales about the Day of Judgment as per their own whims; they reject the Quranic guidance about the Hour, Resurrection,...etc. and the intricate details about the Last-Day events. "Do they not realize that God, who created the heavens and the earth, and was never tired by creating them, is Able to revive the dead? Yes indeed; He is Capable of everything." (46:33); "And of His signs is that the heaven and the earth stand at His disposal. And then, when He calls you out of the earth, you will emerge at once. To Him belongs everyone in the heavens and the earth. All are submissive to Him. It is He who initiates creation, and then repeats it, something easy for Him. His is the highest attribute, in the heavens and the earth. He is the Almighty, the Wise. " (30:25-27).

Firstly: the creation of the universe: the first explosion: the Big Bang theory:

1- The late Egyptian scientist Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh (1928 - 1986) writes the following in his book (in Arabic) titled "The Universe and the Counter-Universe", about the Big Bang that caused the creation of the universe: (... In the beginning, the universe was a stacked mass within unimagined levels of pressure; this impermeable, non-porous mass exploded and the contents of its matter are being scattered and expanded until now; when I've read these scientific facts for the first time, I remembered this Quranic verse: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? ..." (21:30); this means that the universe (i.e., "the heavens and the earth" as per the Quranic expression) was one point/mass which exploded and formed the visible universe (and its invisible levels) with its earth, planets, sun, stars, and galaxies in the outer space, within distances measured in millions of light years ... Some scientists assume that this explosion or the Big Bang took place 18.000 million years ago ... Some scientists, in 1965, discovered by their radio-telescopes the echoes of weak electromagnetic waves; they assume that such echoes are the ongoing reverberations of the Big Bang that formed the universe ...). The Cairo-based Al-Akhbar newspaper mentioned in Nov. 1989 that NASA had a budget of 400 US$ in order to launch a satellite to examine the rays resulted from the Big Bang (which formed the universe), which is estimated to have occurred more than 15 billion years. In April 1990, the same newspaper mentioned that the space shuttle Discovery with its Hubble Space Telescope will examine the movements of galaxies, stars, and comets for 15 years within precision exceeding ten times any other previous telescope; the mission of the Hubble Space Telescope is to determine when the universe has been formed/created within the Big Bang.  

2- The expansion of the universe: once the Big Bang occurred, the universe never ceased to expand, and it will continue to expand as per this Quranic verse: "We constructed the heaven with power, and We are expanding it." (51:47). The Cairo-based Al-Wafd newspaper mentioned in July 1987 within the article titled (The Universe Is Expanding in All Directions) that in astronomy, observing the gravitational redshift is used to measure the distances among different stars and galaxies and to estimate when the Big Bang took place in order to calculate the age of the ever-expanding universe. This newspaper article mentioned that a British astronomer asserted that the expansion of the universe causes the formation of new stars to fill in the void or space; this means that the movements of stars go on and the various distances among these stars do not remain the same. After 20 years of research, the American astronomer Allan Sandage asserted that the speed of the expansion of the universe is 230 million miles per minute and that this expansion in all directions has begun about 18 billion years ago. In 1974, as per the same article, astronomers in Texas University asserted that the universe is expanding limitlessly and endlessly and that the scope of such expansions is beyond being measured – at least at this point in time. The same article mentioned that as per the relativity theory of Einstein in 1916, asserted by the Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedman (in his Friedman equations) in 1922, the universe is round within an elliptic shape taken billions of years ago.             

3- The pairs and the destruction of the universe when it will collide with the counter-universe: We quote the following passages about the expansion of the universe from the book titled "The Universe and the Counter-Universe" by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh. (... The matter and the anti-matter must be within equal quantity, and this applies to all celestial bodies: this is the concept of pairs or duality that governs the universe and all creatures in heaven and on earth ... In 1977, some scientists managed to form an atom of antiparticles and antineutrons within an anti-nucleus of hydrogen but this anti-atom of hydrogen 'died' and was transformed into electromagnetic waves; it is possible now to form anti-atoms of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, water, gold, etc. and such atoms will not differ from the ordinary atoms in physical/natural and chemical features; yet, there is no place on earth that may withstand the existence of one tiny drop of anti-water, unless when scientists would make it be suspended within a void so as not to let it collide with any atoms of this physical universe; in fact, until now, no scientists can create a space of total void. The anti-atoms cannot go on existing unless for few seconds; they explode once they touch any physical atoms of Planet Earth; such anti-atoms disappear in the form of waves which move in the speed of light ... The anti-atoms have reversed magnetic fields, charges, and direction of movement inside their nuclei ... When matter collides with antimatter at any point in time within any place, as in the case of an electron and its antielectron, both of them die or get annihilated and they turn into waves which move in the speed of light ... The matter on earth, and indeed elsewhere in the universe, contains huge destructive energies or rays; if you mix one liter of milk and one liter of anti-milk, the emitted energy can wipe out and annihilate a big city and kill millions of people living in it; the Einstein famous formula is E=mc². This formula states that the equivalent energy (E) can be calculated as the mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c = about 3×108 m/s) squared. This means that two liters of milk and anti-milk are 2000 grams multiplied by 30 thousand million cm (or the speed of light per second) equal 30 thousand million erg (the erg is the unit of energy) or the number 18 and beside it 23 zeros; this type of explosion is equal to 2200 nuclear bombs like the one thrown at Hiroshima or the explosion of 44 million tons of TNT ... Let alone the emitted destructive energy when a star collides with an anti-star; thus, when the universe will collide with its counter-universe, this is total destruction within Doomsday ...). The Cairo-based Al-Wafd newspaper mentioned in Sept. 1987 within the article titled (Matter and Antimatter in Outer Space) that the antimatter is a very complicated field of scientific research which opens the door for studying the risks of allowing astronauts to remain for longer times within their journeys in outer space, because when matter collides with the antimatter in outer space, both disappear and a huge amount of energy emits as a result. 

Secondly: the universe and the counter-universe:

 The Big Bang Theory, in our view, is supported within the Quran about the creation of the heavens and the earth; i.e., the universe with its planets, moons, stars, and galaxies. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? ..." (21:30). This one mass/point was not porous (i.e., it was impermeable) and it exploded by God's command in order to create the heavens and the earth; we tend to think that God has taken a piece of time and has caused it to explode; this resulted in the creations of all the levels of physical and metaphysical realms of the universe (i.e., the earth and the heavens). 

2- When the heavens and the earth (i.e., the physical and metaphysical levels of the universe) have been created, all elements and creatures in them are made in pairs: male/female, passive/active, negative/positive, etc. The Lord God the Creator is the Only One Who has no pair at all. In contrast, all His creatures are in pairs: human beings, animals, plants, energy, inanimate matter, etc. These Quranic verses assert this fact: "We created all things in pairs, so that you may reflect and ponder." (51:49); "He Who created all the pairs..." (43:12); "Glory be to Him who created all the pairs; of what the earth produces, and of their own souls, and of what they do not know." (36:36).

3- This means that the heavens and the earth are also created in a pair: positive and negative; each one of this pair moves in the opposite direction of each other; this is indicated here in this Quranic verse about the scientific fact that the universe is being expanded all the time: "We constructed the heaven with power, and We are expanding it." (51:47). The word (heaven) here refers to the universe, of course.

4- As the negative universe and the positive universe move into opposite directions, they move within an elliptic curve; this means both universes will collide at one point in time when the Hour comes and the universe is destroyed by the command of the Lord God, as we infer from this simile in this Quranic verse: "On the Day when We fold the heaven, like the folding of a book. Just as We began the first creation, We will repeat it..." (21:104). This means that the creation of the universe began with an explosion and it will be destroyed within another explosion; the universe will return to its zero point.     

Thirdly: the second explosion of the Hour: destruction and death:

 The Quranic expression (the Trumpet is blown) indicates the explosion which will cause the destruction of the universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth and their physical levels and metaphysical Barsakh levels and all things created within such levels) as we understand from the following verses: "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass." (69:13-15). Another explosion will follow, and it is the one related to the creation of an alternative, eternal universe; i.e., the eternal heavens and earth of the Last Day of the Resurrection, Gathering, Meeting, Judgment, Hell and Paradise; this is when the Dominant Lord God will manifest Himself to judge all humanity: "On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God the Dominant One." (14:48). We quote these verses about the first explosion: "On that Day, We will leave them surging upon one another. And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them together." (18:99); "The Trumpet will be blown, then behold, they will rush from the tombs to their Lord." (36:51); "On the Day when the Trumpet is blown, everyone in the heavens and the earth will be horrified, except whomever God wills; and everyone will come before Him in humility." (27:87).We quote these verses about the first and second explosions (i.e., the first one linked to the Hour/destruction and the second one of creating the Eternal Realm of Resurrection and Judgment): "They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right. Superior He is beyond the polytheism to which they adhere. And the Trumpet will be blown, whereupon everyone in the heavens and the earth will be stunned, except whomever God wills. Then it will be blown another time, whereupon they will rise up, looking on. And the earth will shine with the Light of its Lord; and the Book will be put in place; and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought in; and Judgment will be passed among them equitably, and they will not be wronged. And every soul will be fully compensated for what it had done. He is well aware of what they do." (39:67-70).  

Fourthly: the Resurrection means the manifestation of the Lord God Who will gather human souls for the Day of Judgment:

   After the explosion of the Hour and the total destruction of the universe with its (meta)physical levels, a New, Eternal Realm of the Hereafter, with new earth and new heavens, will emerge which will stand the manifestation of the Lord God; the losers and deniers will regret in vain after it will be too late for them to repent: "On the Day when We fold the heaven, like the folding of a book. Just as We began the first creation, We will repeat it - a promise binding on Us. We will act. We have written in Al-Zabur, after the Reminder, that the earth will be inherited by My righteous servants." (21:104-105); "On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God the Dominant One." (14:48); "Do these not know that they will be resurrected? For a Great Day? The Day when the humankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds?" (83:4-6); "...when the earth is leveled, pounded, and crushed. And your Lord comes, with the angels, row after row. And on that Day, Hell is brought forward. On that Day, man will remember, but how will remembrance avail him? He will say, “If only I had forwarded for my life.”" (89:21-24).

Fifthly: The temporary First Day of this transient world as opposed to the Last Day of the Hereafter within eternity:

  Of course, the time in the (meta)physical universes (i.e., both the terrestrial day and the Barsakh Day) is, for the Dominant Lord God, one, temporary day or the First Day, which has a beginning and an end, as opposed to the Last Day which is yet to come (after the Hour) and it has a beginning and it has no end; it lasts for eternity. This means there is no 'third day' or any time stage after the Last Day. The First Day is 50000 years but not as per the terrestrial time count or the Barsakh time count; rather, this is as per the count of the Lord God Himself which is above the time. This is inferred from the following Quranic context: "A questioner questioned the imminent torment. For the disbelievers; none can repel it. From God, Lord of the Ways of Ascent. Unto Him the angels and the Spirit ascend on a Day the duration of which is fifty thousand years. So be patient, with sweet patience. They see it distant. But We see it near. On the Day when the sky will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool. No friend will care about his friend." (70:1-10). "It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days—and His Throne was upon the waters—in order to test you—which of you is best in conduct. And if you were to say, “You will be resurrected after death,” those who disbelieve would say, “This is nothing but plain sorcery.”" (11:7); the six days are six stages and not days in the sense of 24 hours. The Last Day is drawing near; once the soul dies, it sleeps in Barsakh for what would seem a part of day before the Resurrection: "They see it distant. But We see it near." (70:6-7).

 There are arch-angels headed by the Holy Spirit, Gabriel, who are guardians of the Throne of the Lord; i.e., the universe or dominion/kingdom of God; this means that they implement and execute the decrees/commands of the Lord God in the universe and on earth; God has decided that this transient day of the world will be 50 thousand years as per God's calculation; i.e., this has nothing to do with human calculation of years. This means that God's angels ascend and move within this universe with its heavens, its physical and metaphysical levels, and its creatures to guard the universe and implement God's commands since the point in time when the universe was created until the appointed time for its total destruction; when this duration of 50000 years will end, the destruction of the universe will be followed by the Eternal Realm and the Last Day (which will go on for eternity, with some people in Paradise and others in Hell) when all resurrected human beings will be made to stand in a row before the Dominant Lord God for judgment: "Unto Him the angels and the Spirit ascend on a Day the duration of which is fifty thousand years. So be patient, with sweet patience. They see it distant. But We see it near." (70:4-7). After the descent/revelation of the Quran 14 centuries ago, which is the Last Divine Message of the Lord God given to humanity, we understand that the Day of Resurrection is very near; God says the following in the Quran: "The Judgment of the humankind has drawn near, but they turn away heedlessly." (21:1). Indeed, God's command/decree has been issued regarding the time when the Day of Resurrection will occur as per the Time of God; the execution/implementation of this divine command/decree will occur later on as per the human sense of time on the physical earth: "The command of God has come, so do not rush it. Glory be to Him..." (16:1). We recommend that readers would read our English book titled "The Night Journey Is the Night of Decree" to find more details about preordained fates (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=112).  The Quran is the Absolute Truth and our souls will realize this fact with certainty on the Resurrection Day when all Quranic descriptions of it are fulfilled: "Abundance distracts you. Until you visit the graveyards. Indeed, you will know.  Certainly, you will know. If you knew with knowledge of certainty. You would see the Inferno. Then you will see it with the eye of certainty. Then, on that Day, you will be questioned about the Bliss." (102:1-8); "Yet it is the Absolute Truth." (69:51). Modern science now has begun to reach the threshold of some Quranic facts mentioned by the Lord God about the creation and the destruction of the universe. See our book, in English, titled "The West and the Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Holy Quran", found on this link:   http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=151    

  In the terrestrial time, or the First Day, there are centuries, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is a moving time which has past, present, and future; there is no turning back in time at all; it is like a non-stop train: the present turns into the past and the future replaces both the present and the past. When we examine our watches/clocks, we find that we cannot stop the fleeting seconds, let alone trying to stop femtoseconds and bigger and smaller units of time within a second; let alone imagining the speeds of the Barsakh-level creatures within their frame of time which differs from the terrestrial time-frame. This shows that even the present is almost nonexistent; once a second passes, another second comes and then passes; when we count a second, we find that it ends; it is gone at once and forever; it will never come back. The terrestrial time in the First Day is moving/mobile; in contrast, in the Last Day or eternity, time is frozen and still; this is beyond the scope of our imagination or the limited reasoning minds of human beings. The First Day has a beginning and an end; i.e., the explosion of the creation and the explosion of the Hour, respectively. In contrast, the Last Day has a beginning and it has no end. Hell dwellers will never die and Hell will never be extinguished; Paradise dwellers will never die and Paradise bliss and pleasures will have no end.

 The age/time of the universe or the day of this world is 50000 years as per the Dominant Lord God's Time, and not as per the human sense of what a year means (365 days). This day of this transient realm differs from the Day of the Lord God when commands/decrees of the Lord God move between the heavens and the earth during this day of the world: "He regulates all affairs, from the heavens, to the earth. Then it ascends to Him on a Day the length of which is a thousand years by your count." (32:5); God says the following about the disbelievers who mockingly hasten their own torment: "And they ask you to hasten the torment. But God never breaks His promise. A day with your Lord is like a thousand years of your count." (22:47). This 1000 years are as per the moving time on earth; when the universe (with its earth, heavens, galaxies, stars, Barsakh levels, etc.) is destroyed, the Last Day of an Eternal Realm (of Judgment, Hell, and Paradise) will emerge; it will have no end and no sense of time; this is in contrast to the First Day or the Day of the transient world which has a moving time that goes ahead and never turns back and it has a beginning and an end.As per the speeds, the sense of time differs within the earth, the planets, stars, and galaxies in this current day of the world; the time unstoppably goes ahead; it moves nonstop; there are past, present, and future; it will have an end when the Hour comes. Of course, we read in the Quran about the chronological arrangement of the Last-Day events: the Day of Resurrection, gathering, judgment, Hell, and Paradise; we cannot imagine how the Last-Day events will take place in this Eternal Realm which has no past or future; the only sense will be of the present always; hence, the issue of time concerning the Last Day is a problematic one. Hence,the Lord God in the Quranic text employs figurative style and imagery to make our limited minds grasp, as much as possible, some facts about the Last-Day events, within the context of warning, preaching, guidance, and the call to adhere to piety; i.e., in order to make human beings take heed of the Lord God and His Greatness so that they reflect on the Last Day and Judgment,...etc. so that they adhere to monotheism and piety as guided persons.

 As per this Quranic methodology of calling others to take heed and be warned to guide themselves, verses about the Last-Day events in all contexts are linked to figurative, metaphoric style and to calling people to repent, heed the warning, and adhere to piety. God in the Quran addresses the human minds in easy, simple ways and figurative terms/words to make them understand as much as possible the notion of eternity or timelessness within an Eternal Realm on the Last Day; this experience is too difficult to be imagined by the human minds with their limited capacity. Within the First-Day in this transient world, human beings have bodies which house their souls; their eternal bodies are being prepared as per their deeds recorded by the angels; such eternal bodies of the Hereafter will make the eternal soul abide either in Hell (with ugly, blackened bodies woven of sins) or in Paradise (with bodies of light and radiance woven of good deeds, piety, and monotheism).  

 In the First-Day which is the duration of the universe, living souls are free to (dis)believe and to (dis)obey, to think or to be among heedless, to do anything or do nothing, to sin or to perform good deeds, to adhere either to polytheism or to monotheism,...etc. Hell and Paradise have a beginning since they will be created on the Last Day, but they have no end; a given soul chooses its abode for eternity as per its deeds and choices. There is no third option besides Hell and Paradise. 

We tend to think that God has taken a piece of static, eternal time and has caused it to explode; this resulted in the creations of all the levels of physical and metaphysical realms of the universe; this resulted in the creation of moving time which is the fourth dimension of existence in the universe.This verse about God's command issued about the coming of the Hour (i.e., the destruction of the universe) shows the difference/gap between time in Barsakh and time within the physical realm on earth: "The command of God came, so do not rush it..." (16:1). This means that the time-frame assigned to the physical world has not yet reached or matched with the Barsakh time-frame when the command/decree was issued by the Lord God about the taking place of the Hour; the Hour means the total destruction of the physical universe and its time-frame; a new, eternal universe (of Resurrection, Gathering, Judgment, Hell, and Paradise) and eternity (with no past, present, and future) will be created; the limited capacity of the human mind cannot fully grasp/imagine this eternity of 'static' time which does not move or change. The deeds of each soul will remain in the archive or Book of Deeds linked to each soul; the soul will be united with its deeds upon Resurrection.

Lastly: some scientific facts mentioned in the Quran 14 centuries ago:

 We quote the following passages about the expansion of the universe from the book titled "The Universe and the Counter-Universe" by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh. (... The matter and the anti-matter must be within equal quantity, and this applies to all celestial bodies: this is the concept of pairs or duality that governs the universe and all creatures in heaven and on earth ... In 1977, some scientists managed to form an atom of antiparticles and antineutrons within an anti-nucleus of hydrogen but this anti-atom of hydrogen 'died' and was transformed into electromagnetic waves; it is possible now to form anti-atoms of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, water, gold, etc. and such atoms will not differ from the ordinary atoms in physical/natural and chemical features; yet, there is no place on earth that may withstand the existence of one tiny drop of anti-water, unless when scientists would make it be suspended within a void so as not to let it collide with any atoms of this physical universe; in fact, until now, no scientists can create a space of total void. The anti-atoms cannot go on existing unless for few seconds; they explode once they touch any physical atoms of Planet Earth; such anti-atoms disappear in the form of waves which move in the speed of light ... The anti-atoms have reversed magnetic fields, charges, and direction of movement inside their nuclei ... When matter collides with antimatter at any point in time within any place, as in the case of an electron and its antielectron, both of them die or get annihilated and they turn into waves which move in the speed of light ... The matter on earth, and indeed elsewhere in the universe, contains huge destructive energies or rays; if you mix one liter of milk and one liter of anti-milk, the emitted energy can wipe out and annihilate a big city and kill millions of people living in it; the Einstein famous formula is E=mc². This formula states that the equivalent energy (E) can be calculated as the mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c = about 3×108 m/s) squared. This means that two liters of milk and anti-milk are 2000 grams multiplied by 30 thousand million cm (or the speed of light per second) equal 30 thousand million erg (the erg is the unit of energy) or the number 18 and beside it 23 zeros; this type of explosion is equal to 2200 nuclear bombs like the one thrown at Hiroshima or the explosion of 44 million tons of TNT ... Let alone the emitted destructive energy when a star collides with an anti-star; thus, when the universe will collide with its counter-universe, this is total destruction within Doomsday ... The expansion of the universe: once the Big Bang occurred, the universe never ceased to expand, and it will continue to expand as per this Quranic verse: "We constructed the heaven with power, and We are expanding it." (51:47). The Cairo-based Al-Wafd newspaper mentioned in July 1987 within the article titled (The Universe Is Expanding in All Directions) that in astronomy, observing the gravitational redshift is used to measure the distances among different stars and galaxies and to estimate when the Big Bang took place in order to calculate the age of the ever-expanding universe. This newspaper article mentioned that a British astronomer asserted that the expansion of the universe causes the formation of new stars to fill in the void or space; this means that the movements of stars go on and the various distances among these stars do not remain the same. After 20 years of research, the American astronomer Allan Sandage asserted that the speed of the expansion of the universe is 230 million miles per minute and that this expansion in all directions has begun about 18 billion years ago. In 1974, as per the same article, astronomers in Texas University asserted that the universe is expanding limitlessly and endlessly and that the scope of such expansions is beyond being measured – at least at this point in time. The same article mentioned that as per the relativity theory of Einstein in 1916, asserted by the Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedman (in his Friedman equations) in 1922, the universe is round within an elliptic shape taken billions of years ago. ...).

The Universe's Design, Destruction, and Resurrection

We infer from the Quran that the heavens and the earth will be destroyed simultaneously; this means that their systems/patterns will be destroyed at the same time when the (positive) universe (with its physical levels and the metaphysical/Barsakh/ethereal ones) will collide with its (negative) counter-universe; since everything is created in pairs, there is this universe and its opposite universe which move in separate directions but will converge/meet at some point in time known only to the Lord God; their meeting is the collusion which is the Hour of the destruction of the universe before the advent of Last Day within a New, Eternal Realm. The following Quranic verses cover this topic and specialized scientists should study, examine, and analyze them.

1- "When the sun is rolled up. When the stars are dimmed. When the mountains are set in motion. When the relationships are suspended. When the beasts are gathered. When the oceans are set aflame. When the souls are paired. When the girl, buried alive, is asked. For what crime was she killed? When the Records are made public. When the heaven is peeled away." (81:1-11).

2- "When the heaven breaks apart. When the planets are scattered. When the oceans are exploded." (82:1-3).

3- "When the heaven is ruptured. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must. And when the earth is leveled out. And casts out what is in it, and becomes empty." (84:1-4).

4- "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass. And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail." (69:13-16).

5- "On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (70:8-9).

6- "On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation.  And the mountains go into motion." (52:9-10).

7- "When the earth is shaken with a shock. And the mountains are crushed and crumbled. And they become scattered dust." (56:4-6).

8- "When the stars are obliterated. And the heaven is fractured. And the mountains are blown away." (77:8-10).

9- "The Day when the Trumpet is blown, and you will come in droves. And the heaven is opened up and becomes gateways. And the mountains are set in motion, and become a mirage." (78:18-20).

 The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "It is He who sends the wind ahead of His mercy. Then, when they have gathered up heavy clouds, We drive them to a dead land, where We make water come down, and with it We bring out all kinds of fruits. Thus We bring out the dead - perhaps you will reflect." (7:57); we see here an indication of the role of the wind in moving clouds laden with rainwater; on the Day of Resurrection, a different type of water will fall as rain on souls to revive them and bring them out for Judgment.The growing of plants by rain-water is seen as like the process of raising the dead on the Last Day within Resurrection."And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest. And the soaring palm trees, with clustered dates. As sustenance for the servants. And We revive thereby a dead town. Likewise is the Resurrection." (50:9-11); this means that Resurrection of the human souls is getting them out of their Barsakh tombs by special, different type of water-rain.Water is what makes life continue on earth; water is involved in the process of Resurrection of souls on the Last Day; likewise, water in the Hereafter will help maintain eternity for the dwellers of both Hell and Paradise, as we infer from the Quran. There is a water cycle which helps maintain life in our physical, transient Planet Earth; likewise, there are eternal water cycles in both Hell and Paradise; this means there is eternal water for maintaining the bliss and pleasures of Paradise forever and the Eternal life of its dwellers and another eternal water which will help continue the torment of Hell forever for Hell-dwellers who will never die.  Inside Hell there will be boiling, scalding water: "...These are the ones who are delivered to perdition by their actions. They will have a drink of scalding water, and a painful torment..." (6:70);of course, the Eternal Life and the eternal bodies of Paradise-dwellers will be maintained by the food and water/drinks they will enjoy inside Paradise: "The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous ones: in it are rivers of pure water, and rivers of milk forever fresh, and rivers of wine delightful to the drinkers, and rivers of strained honey. And therein they will have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord. Like one abiding in the Fire forever, and are given to drink boiling water, that cuts up their bowels?" (47:15).

 The Quran tells us that the Lord God the Creator has originated the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) within a tremendous explosion; this explosion of a mass torn apart is known now as the Big Bang. "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? ..." (21:30). The universe has a physical realm and a metaphysical one; the physical realm contains the celestial bodies: the earth, planets, stars, and galaxies, whereas the metaphysical realm (as per the Quran) consists of seven Barsakh levels of the earth and the seven Barsakh levels of the heavens.The Muhammadans who absentmindedly read the Quranic verses about the creation and destruction of the universe without pondering upon them should be ashamed of themselves when they insist on deifying a mortal; i.e., Muhammad, by putting his name alongside with the Name of Allah the Creator in the testimony of monotheism (i.e., There is no God but Allah). Indeed, the Muhammadans have not esteemed God as He should to be esteemed. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right. Superior He is beyond the polytheism to which they adhere." (39:67).

  The Lord God never forces human beings to worship Him; rather, He has created them as free agents who choose to (dis)obey and to (dis)believe during their lifetimes on earth; this is the test for all human souls. In fact, the Lord God has created the universe for one purpose: to test human beings: "It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days - and His Throne was upon water - in order to test you - which of you is best in conduct..." (11:7). Thus, after each soul wears a body of human flesh to be tested during its lifetime on earth, the human being dies while the soul returns to Barsakh (its original place); when the predestined number of human beings are tested, the test of all human beings will end and the Hour will take place (i.e., the destruction of the universe), as all the physical and metaphysical levels of heavens and the earth will be destroyed and a New, Eternal Realm will be created and it will witness the manifestation of God Himself  to the resurrected souls on the Last Day: "On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God, the One, Dominant Lord." (14:48).

 The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation..." (18:51). Of course, human beings never witnessed the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything between them (i.e., the universe) and the creation of all human souls; yet, we know from the Quran that the Lord God has originated the universe out of nothing; this is the meaning of this Quranic verse: "Praise be to God, Originator of the heavens and the earth..." (35:1). Of course, the physical universe of the heaven and earth is enveloped by the dimension of time. We tend to think that the Lord God has also created time (and all the universe) out of nothing. The Lord God has created two types of time as follows. Along with the Big Bang and the creation/origination of the universe, a moving time has been created that goes ahead and never turns back and it has a beginning (i.e., Big Bang) and an end (i.e., when the Hour takes place and the universe is destroyed within a tremendous explosion). This moving, transient time of the physical world has a certain predetermined duration known to the Lord God: "Do they not reflect within themselves? God did not create the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, except with reason, and for a specific duration..." (30:8); "We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them except with reason, and for a finite period...." (46:3). The other type of time is eternity which will begin with the Last Day; of course, eternity has no end; it will be for human beings in Hell and those of them in Paradise an everlasting life which will feel like timelessness; the Eternal Realm of the Hereafter will have its static, unmoving time which will last forever; it is as if an everlasting present, with no sense of the past, present, or future typical of time on earth. This is hard to grasp with the limited capacity of the human mind and harder to express using any of the human tongues.

  The moving time on earth (i.e., within this physical world) makes human beings have a sense of what the past, the present, and the future are like; human beings never cease to wonder how the present turns into past and the future into present within succession of days that seems apparently endless:  "And it is He who made the night and the day alternate - for whoever desires to reflect, or desires to show gratitude." (25:62). We have to bear in mind that one's preordained lifetime or one's limited duration on earth is moving like a non-stop train; the second which passes will never return; one's soul comes from Barsakh, wears human flesh momentarily, and when one dies, the soul returns to the timelessness of Barsakh once more. Within our physical world, measuring the femtosecond has led to the hypothesis of the parallel universes; for sure, the metaphysical Barsakh levels are greater and beyond the wildest imagination.  

  Time varies in the planets of the solar system and within different galaxies in the observable universe; this helps us understand the fact that time in the physical universe (and on earth, of course) differs from that of the metaphysical, Barsakh levels; we infer this from this verse about the divine command of the Hour which has been issued already by the Omnipotent Lord God and we are not to rush it: "The command of God came, so do not rush it. Glory be to Him; exalted above what they associate." (16:1). This divine command has been issued within a Barsakh-level time whose nature/essence cannot be imagined by human beings; yet, the time cycles on earth have not yet reached the specified moment of the occurrence of the Hour when the universe (with its physical and metaphysical levels) will be destroyed. Within the Eternal Realm of the Last Day after the Resurrection Day, the eternal time will have no past, present, or future in the sense we know of on earth; the limited capacity of the human mind cannot imagine the nature/essence of eternity or what if feels like to be living forever. 

  The word (days) refers to different time units in various (meta)physical levels in the universe; the word (days) here refers to this time unit on earth in relation to pilgrimage: "And remember God during the designated days. But whoever hurries on in two days commits no wrong, and whoever stays on commits no wrong..." (2:203). In other verses which we will not quote here, there are references to years and months as per calculations on earth. This has nothing to do with the six days/epochs/phases of the origination/creation of the universe: "It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then settled over the Throne..." (57:4); "Say, "Do you reject the One who created the earth in two days? And you attribute equals to Him? That is the Lord of the Universe." He placed stabilizers over it; and blessed it; and planned its provisions in four days, equally to the seekers. Then He turned to the heaven, and it was smoke, and said to it and to the earth, "Come, willingly or unwillingly." They said, "We come willingly." So He completed them as seven heavens in two days, and He assigned to each heaven its laws. And We decorated the lower heaven with lamps, and for protection. That is the design of the Almighty, the Omniscient." (41:9-12). Upon Resurrection, human beings will feel as if the duration of their life on earth and their sleep/death were a day or part of a day: "On the Day when they witness it - as though they only stayed an evening, or its morning." (79:46). The Last Day has its eternal time within the Eternal Realm; it differs from the day of this temporary physical realm (with its earth, heavens, and metaphysical Barsakh levels) which is a transient day off life whose duration is 50000 years as per the divine calculations (not years as per calculations on earth) and it is contrasted with the Last Day of eternity in these verses: "Unto Him the angels and the Spirit ascend on a Day the duration of which is fifty thousand years...They see it distant. But We see it near. On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (70:4-9). Thus, since the Big Bang, the moving, temporary duration of the universe is marching towards its predetermined end; i.e., total destruction when the Hour comes; each creature (from human beings and angels to stars and galaxies) has its limited, preordained duration or lifetime within this 50000 years allotted to the (meta)physical universe; when the Hour occurs after the end of this duration, it will be faster than the speed of light: "And Our command is but once, faster than the twinkling of an eye." (54:50); "To God belongs the unseen of the heavens and the earth. The coming of the Hour is only as the twinkling of the eye, or even nearer..." (16:77).

 The Eternal Realm will include a new earth and new heavens within the eternal time; after Resurrection and Judgment, human beings, those in Hell and those in Paradise, will never die: When this preordained duration comes to an end, the Hour will take place faster than the speed of light; the physical universe will be destroyed and the Eternal Realm will emerge along with eternity or the everlasting time for those who will be tormented in Hell forever and those who will enjoy the bliss and pleasures of Paradise forever. It is a veritable loss to waste one's lifetime (or one's limited duration on earth) by getting busy sinning and disobeying the Lord God; on the Last Day, the unrepentant ones will suffer for eternity (within the eternal time) inside Hell-torment; they will never get out of Hell and its torment will never cease or be lessened: "Remaining in it eternally, without their torment being eased from them..." (3:88).

 The Resurrection is for the souls wearing their eternal bodies and not the earthly one of flesh created from the earth; yet, each resurrected soul will have the same image and shape it had on its physical body of flesh during its life on earth: " It is He who forms you in the wombs as He wills. There is no God except He, the Almighty, the Wise." (3:6). This is why resurrected souls which knew one another on earth will recognize one another within the Last-Day events; they will flee in panic: "The Day when a person will flee from his brother. And his mother and his father. And his consort and his children. Every one of them, on that Day, will have enough to preoccupy him." (80:34-37).  

The last line:

 The Quranic context 80:34-37 will apply to Muhammad and each of the prophets/messengers; i.e., each of them will flee from their brothers, parents, spouses, and progeny, because each of the prophets/messengers, including Muhammad, will be preoccupied only about their own safety. The losers in Hell will include those polytheists who believed in human intercessors/saints.

The Overlapping within the levels of the Physical and the Metaphysical Realms

Firstly: vibrational levels in the physical level of the universe:

1- We are not a specialist in natural sciences or physics; we quote the following from writing of other scientists. Of course, numbers, data, and information may have changed now as per the accumulation of new knowledge within science.

2- Science tells us that atoms rotate within speeds between 400 billion to 750 billion cycles per second, and when they rotate faster, we can no longer see them. This is why we cannot see fan blades if they rotate at fast speeds; we cannot see atoms of volatile materials though we can smell them. The atoms of the six-dimensional realm rotate faster and we cannot see them because they have vibrational levels that differ from those of our physical world. Hence, we cannot see angels, Jinn, and devils nor souls that get out of the dying bodies. The scientific field called quantum mechanics, which is related to waves, indicates that overlapping or lack of overlapping between bodies is directly linked to the similarity or difference of the vibrational levels. Thus, if both bodies belong to the same realm, it is impossible that they overlap or merge; e.g., a man cannot move with his body through a wall as both the man and the wall have the same vibrational levels. The beings that have higher vibrational levels can overlap with or move through beings that have lower vibrational levels. Thus, angels, Jinn, and devils as ethereal beings can exist on earth as the overlapping between them and the physical world is possible and natural. Thus, the souls inside the human bodies are deemed as another example of this overlapping and merging possible as per this scientific field called quantum mechanics. This applies to radio waves that fill the atmosphere on earth and they never overlap, unless when two waves have the same frequency level. Within our physical realm, solid atoms rotate and vibrate within the speed of 400 billion cycles per second, and this speed increases up to 750 billion cycles per second when solid matter turns into gas and we can barely see gases, and it is impossible for the human naked eye to see energy. Thus, within higher levels of our physical realm, invisible energy types can be detected and used like X-rays, which can penetrate our bodies and solid objects that have lower vibrational levels which include the lowest level for human bodies: 400 billion cycles per second. Let us remember that energy is converted matter and that matter and energy are two faces of the same coin. If there is a being with a vibration level above 750 billion cycles per second, then this being is linked to the Barsakh realm and it is natural that it can overlap/merge with our bodies and that beings of higher levels of Barsakh with higher vibrational levels can overlap/merge with beings with lower vibrational levels. This means that the levels of the Barsakh realm (of angels, Jinn, and devils who are ethereal beings) surround human beings. This means that human beings live within two overlapping realms of the physical realm and the metaphysical one, and each has its different vibrational levels, and this is how the physical bodies contain the souls that originally belong to Barsakh, and this is how on earth, there are human beings and angels (who record deeds of people) while the formers cannot see the latters. Human beings can see the ethereal creatures, i.e., angels, only upon dying and on the Last Day. Thus, there are two elements that overlap inside each one of us: our physical, earthly body and our soul that came originally from Barsakh; death occurs when the soul leaves the body, and leaves the physical realm seen and sensed by us, forever. The human naked eye cannot see everything within its field of vision; God says in the Quran: "Indeed, I swear by what you see. And by what you do not see." (69:38-39). Thus, human beings cannot see the two angels assigned to record deeds of each one of the human beings: "We created the human being, and We know what his soul whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready. The daze of death has come in truth: "This is what you tried to evade." And the Trumpet is blown: "This is the Promised Day." And every soul will come forward, accompanied by a driver and a witness. You were in heedless of this, so We lifted your screen from you, and your vision today is keen." (50:16-22). Those two angels carry the resurrected soul and its record of deeds on the Last Day, this is the only time when the human soul can see these angels: "You were in heedless of this, so We lifted your screen from you, and your vision today is keen." (50:22).

3- Thus, we have three levels of existence; namely, the physical level of the earth and the metaphysical levels overlapping with it, and then we have the Eternity in the Hereafter in a New, Eternal Realm (with a beginning on the Last Day and it will have no end) which is yet to be created and it will have no Barsakh levels. The divine calculations link such levels with one another in the Quranic text. We provide more details about this rather complicated topic in the points below.

Secondly: life of human beings are linked to the vibrational level on the physical Planet Earth:

1-  We have mentioned the vibrational levels of atoms within the metaphysical realms and their speeds and how the earth has the lowest vibrational level to allow creatures created of dust to live on Planet Earth; this is why if the human body is tied to a rotating blades of a helicopter or a huge fan, the brain will be damaged. Sadly, this is a method of inflicting painful torment on some victims, as per a documentary we have watched.

2- Of course, vibrational levels on earth change when matter is not solid; i.e., when it turns into liquid or gas. It is beyond our mind capacity to imagine how souls leave bodies during slumber and float in Barsakh temporarily before returning to the bodies upon waking up. We also cannot measure or imagine how the souls leave the bodies forever in death. Likewise, we cannot imagine the divine calculations of the Hour, destruction of the universe, and Resurrection and Judgment within an Eternal Realm. We only can ponder, as much as we can the Quranic verses about these fact.  

3- When the human beings die, their bodies decompose and return to elements absorbed by the soil; this energy (with its different vibrational levels as per the elements) which was used previously within the creation of the human body from the earth as per precise divine calculations and then within the reverse process of decomposition to make elements return to the soil indicates the existence of the Creator and proves Resurrection in which souls will be brought from their Barsakh tombs to wear eternal bodies woven of its good or bad deeds; this refutes the claims of deniers of the Resurrection Day: "They marveled that a warner has come to them from among them. The disbelievers say, “This is something strange. When we have died and become dust? This is a farfetched return.” We know what the earth consumes of them, and with Us is a comprehensive book." (50:2-4). Such changes to the physical realm, including decomposition of corpses, are recorded in a Divine Book controlled by the Dominant Lord God Who is the Creator of the visible and invisible realms: "With Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them except He. And He knows everything on land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but He knows it; and there is not a single grain in the darkness of earth, nor is there anything wet or dry, but is in a clear record." (6:59).   

Thirdly: the body of Muhammad as an example:

1- We have chosen Muhammad as an example to shock those Muhammadans who deify him and consider him an immortal god besides Allah because they disbelief in the monotheism of (There is no God but Allah). This example, of course, shows the history of any human being.

2- Before the parents of Muhammad (namely, Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Mutalib and Aminah daughter of Wahb) got married, the cells of their bodies were nourished by food items available in Mecca and the sperm of  Abdullah inseminated the ovum of Aminah after they had marital sex; the zygote inside the womb was Muhammad; it turned into a fetus/embryo and the body and blood of the mother fed it as Aminah consumed food items in Mecca during her pregnancy. Later on, the newly born baby Muhammad was breastfed and this milk of the nursing woman was created in her body by the food items she consumed. As Muhammad grew up, he consumed grown food, digested food/crops/fruits, defecated, urinated, and his cells and body were nurtured by consuming food and water. The body waste returned to earth. This is linked to the mechanism of creation and destruction as per divine calculations of cells and atoms within the body of Muhammad: "On the Day when We fold the heaven, like the folding of a book. Just as We began the first creation, We will repeat it..." (21:104); "Your creation and your resurrection are only as a single soul..." (31:28). Eventually, Muhammad died; his soul returned to its original place; i.e., Barsakh, like all human souls, and his corpse decomposed and its elements and atoms/cells returned to the earth. "And it is He who produced you from a single soul, then a repository, then a depository..." (6:98).

3- After his death, Muhammad's soul returned to Barsakh inside a tomb there; in a state of timelessness and senselessness as if asleep; his ties to the physical world is severed. The soul of Muhammad will be resurrected alongside with all souls of humanity on the Last Day.

4- The corpse of Muhammad decomposed into elements, water, gases, dust, and bones,...etc. like all human corpses of good/bad (dis)believing people: "You will die, and they will die. Then, on the Day of Resurrection, you will be quarrelling before your Lord." (39:30-31); "From it We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will bring you out another time." (20:55). This means the dead body of Muhammad is no longer there; after its burial, within days in desert hot environment, his body was consumed by the decomposers (insects, worms, bacteria...etc.), which died in their turn like any creatures, until the skeleton remained for a longer while and then decomposed in its turn; it returned into soil as natural elements and gases and dust; such elements are like the ones forming plants and food items consumed by him and by his parents when they were alive. All calculations of living bodies and decomposed bodies are archived in a Book; such bodies of the dead turned into numbers with unique Barsakh DNA plus numerical data in that Book: "We know what the earth consumes of them, and with us is a comprehensive book." (50:4).  

5- The language of numbers is that of all branches of science; likewise, the Lord God estimates the amounts of everything on earth; e.g., water: "And We sent down water from the sky in proper quantity, and settled it in the ground, and We are Able to take it away." (23:18); "He sends down water from the sky, and riverbeds flow according to their capacity." (13:17); ...And We made from water every living thing..." (21:30); "God created every living creature from water..." (24:45). This applies to the estimation of lives of all living creatures and plants on earth within divine calculations. These divine calculations are linked to the Hour, the Hereafter, and the Last Day as well; special rain water will bring/resurrect souls from their Barsakh tombs: "He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out." (43:11); "...Just as He originated you, so you will return." (7:29); "There is not a thing but with Us are its stores, and We send it down only in precise measure." (15:21); "He to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, who took to Himself no son, who never had a partner in His kingship; who created everything and determined its measure." (25:2); "Everything We created is precisely measured." (54:49).

6- Muhammad is a mere speck in the (meta)physical realms of the universe and in the Eternal Realm of the Last Day controlled by precise measures and calculations of the Dominant Lord God. The human being is very weak and minute in relation to the Planet Earth: "And do not walk proudly on earth. You can neither pierce the earth, nor can you match the mountains in height." (17:37); the Planet Earth itself is a mere speck in the Milky Way galaxy which is one of the millions of galaxies in the observable universe. The outer space which fascinates us (with its stars, black holes, galaxies,...etc.) is merely lamps of the lowest heaven: "So He completed them as seven heavens in two days, and He assigned to each heaven its laws. And We decorated the lower heaven with lamps, and for protection. That is the design of the Almighty, the All-Knowing." (41:12); we cannot imagine or reach the seven levels of heaven.

7- The polytheistic Muhammadan ignoramuses made Muhammad a god alongside with Allah and a 'grand intercessor' who controls the Last Day instead of the Dominant Lord God; they never value the Omnipotent Lord God as He should be values: "O people! A parable is presented, so listen to it: Those you invoke besides God will never create a fly, even if they banded together for that purpose. And if the fly steals anything from them, they cannot recover it from it. Weak are the pursuer and the pursued. They do not value God as He should be valued. God is Strong and Powerful." (22:73-74). As always, the Lord God says nothing but the Absolute Truth.

"We Know What the Earth Consumes of Them, and with Us Is a Comprehensive Book." (50:4)

Firstly:

 We remind readers that we have mentioned that decomposed bodies of dead people turn into natural elements by decomposers and are absorbed by the soil which feed plants/animals eaten by other living people, and since divine calculations and measures control such a process, this refute the claims of deniers of the Resurrection; the energy (i.e., deeds, thoughts, feelings,...etc.) emitted from living bodies, controlled by souls, are archived by angels in the Book of Deeds which will weave the new, eternal bodies of souls on the Last Day. Each human body has its unique Barsakh DNA; we assert here that the Book of Deeds with its numerical data preserves the unique Barsakh DNA of each one of the human souls. Since matter/energy never ends and since one's physical body is made of the elements of the earth and returns to it upon death, likewise, souls in Barsakh tombs are united with its archive of deeds and Barsakh DNA to be clothed in garments fit for either eternity in Hell or the Eternal Life in Paradise. This is a logical cycle like the one of life/birth and death. The Barsakh DNA of the soul is linked to its outer features resembling its physical body features and is also linked to its ancestry until Adam. This is why, as per the Holy Quran, all souls will be resurrected simultaneously as if they were one soul. The deeds recorded by angels are: actions/movements, words/thoughts, and intentions/feelings. They 'fly' and are copied like audiovisual tapes into the Book of Deeds. The energy emitting from living bodies carries the same Barsakh DNA of the soul, as we infer from here: "For every person We have attached his fate to his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will bring out for him a book which he will find spread open. “Read your book; today there will be none but yourself to call you to judge.”" (17:13-14). The resurrected souls will wear eternal bodies woven of their Book of Deeds or the container of their time spent on earth during the test of life. Alongside with the individual Book of Deeds, there is a collective audiovisual Book of Deeds for each human community within precise divine measures and calculations; it is a numerical book; numbers is the language of science; the remorse of criminals and sinners will be great but in vain when it is too late; on the Day of Judgment, the Scales will be so precise that it will count atoms of deeds, thoughts, words,...etc.: "You will see every community on its knees; every community will be called to its Book: “Today you are being repaid for what you used to do. This Book of Ours speaks about you in truth. We have been transcribing what you have been doing.”" (45:28-29); "And the book will be placed, and you will see the criminals fearful of its contents. And they will say, “Woe to us! What is with this book that leaves nothing, small or big, but it has enumerated it?” They will find everything they had done present. Your Lord does not wrong anyone." (18:49); "There is none in the heavens and the earth but will come to the Dominant Lord as a servant.He has enumerated them, and counted them one by one. And each one of them will come to Him on the Day of Resurrection alone." (19:93-95); "On that Day, the people will emerge in droves, to be shown their deeds.Whoever has done an atom's weight of good will see it.Whoever has done an atom's weight of evil will see it." (99:6-8).      

Secondly:

 As for this Quranic verse: "We know what the earth consumes of them, and with us is a comprehensive book." (50:4), we will not repeat the example of Muhammad's corpse mentioned in the above section; we will repeat briefly here that since food items grown in the soil nurtures human beings who consume them and help them procreate and live, and since all elements of corpses (water, nitrogen, oxygen,...etc.) return finally to earth by decomposition, this shows the precise measures and calculations of the Dominant Lord God Who controls the universe; this refutes the claims of deniers of the Resurrection Day. This processes and its reverse proves the process of creation of the universe and its destruction or they reverse process. Hence, in light of this, we can easily understand how the souls of the dead will be resurrected and each will be united with its Book of Deeds since energy does not die/end but transforms into other forms/types. The deeds of soul remain as energy recorded in numerical data in the Book of Deeds; this is why resurrected souls will never return to the physical, earthly bodies of clay which are dust destroyed along with the earth and the whole universe. Souls, upon the Resurrection Day, will wear eternal bodies composed of their good or bad deeds carried in their Barsakh DNA and archived in the Book of Deeds. The whole universe and its ornaments will be destroyed and one's deeds will remain; this is the test of life for souls: "We made what is upon the earth an ornament for it, to test them as to which of them is best in conduct." (18:7); "Wealth and children are the adornments of the present life. But the good deeds that last are better with your Lord for reward, and better for hope." (18:46). The divine calculations are lined to all living and dead creatures: "There is no moving creature on earth but its sustenance depends on God. And He knows where it lives and where it rests. Everything is in a Clear Book." (11:6). This Book of registering the quantity and quality of living and dead creatures is linked to the energy of good/bad deeds performed by the human souls as well as their thoughts, feelings/sentiments, intentions, and words. "Though over you are watchers. Honest recorders. They know everything you do." (82:10-12); "Or do they think that We cannot hear their secrets and their conspiracies? Yes indeed, Our messengers are by them, writing down." (43:80). This makes us easily understand the link between human souls and its physical, earthly body and also its Barsakh, eternal body composed of one's deeds recorded by the angels. such angels exist in the Barsakh level of the earth; when the earth and the whole universe will be destroyed within the Hour, the resurrected souls in the Eternal Realm will be united with the Barsakh DNA or Book of Deeds in the form of eternal bodies composed of either good or bad deeds.  

The Book of Deeds of Each Soul Is Its Barsakh DNA

Introduction:

 The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation..." (18:51). This means the only information about this is found exclusively in the Holy Quran; anything else outside it about this topic is mere useless conjecture. We must never distort meanings of the Quranic verses to accommodate any whims and theories; no one can claim s/he owns the absolute truth about anything. We are to study and analyze all definitive and similar Quranic verses linked to the topic at hand to understand the Quran properly; this Quranist methodology is explained in our book, in English and in French, titled (How to Understand the Holy Quran) found on these two links respectively: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=121 +    http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=153). We also refer readers to an article of ours, English, exemplifying how we apply this Quranist methodology within a topic at hand: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=16993). Hence, the Holy Quran is our sole imam and only source of guidance, and we trace and discuss, in the points below, all Quranic verses about the topic at hand; i.e. the Barsakh DNA of the human soul.

Firstly: the exclusive focus on the physical human bodies leads to denying the resurrection of human souls:

1- The false notion that human beings are merely bodies of flesh drove the polytheistic ignoramuses of Arabia to deny the resurrection; they posed this question and the Quran has answered them: "And he produces arguments against Us, and he forgets his own creation. He says, “Who will revive the bones when they have decayed?” Say, “He who initiated them in the first instance will revive them. He has knowledge of every creation.”" (36:78-79); "Nor are equal the living and the dead. God causes whomever He wills to hear, but you cannot make those in the tombs hear. You are only a warner." (35:22-23). The word (tombs) here refers to the ones on earth for the burial of human corpses; dead bodies cannot hear and stubborn, defiant, disbelieving polytheists resemble them. 

2- Many polytheistic ignoramuses, past and present, worship, sanctify, and deify tombs/mausoleums of the so-called "saints"; they do not seem to realize that entombed corpses have turned into dust and they cannot hear or feel anything: "Those you call upon besides God are servants like you. So call upon them, and let them answer you, if you are truthful. Do they have feet with which they walk? Or do they have hands with which they strike? Or do they have eyes with which they see? Or do they have ears with which they hear? Say, “Call upon your partners, then plot against me, and do not wait.”" (7:194-195); "Those they invoke besides God create nothing, but are themselves created. They are dead, not alive; and they do not know when they will be resurrected." (16:20-21).

3- When the physical body of flesh dies,  it is a mere corpse which decomposes and its elements and components return to soil of the earth as per the Omniscient Lord God's calculations and knowledge; the soul of the dead person is stored in Barsakh and its Book of Deeds is sealed as the archive of its lifetime on earth. "...The disbelievers say, “This is something strange.

When we have died and become dust? This is a farfetched return.” We know what the earth consumes of them, and with us is a comprehensive book." (50:2-4); "And they say, “When we are lost into the earth, shall we be in a new creation?” In fact, they deny the meeting with their Lord. Say, “The angel of death put in charge of you will reclaim you. Then to your Lord you will be returned.”" (32:10-11). 

4- There are Barsakh tombs which store the souls of the dead. We quote the following Quranic verses about them.

4/1: "When the sky breaks apart. When the planets are scattered. When the oceans are exploded. When the tombs are strewn around. Each soul will know what it has advanced, and what it has deferred." (82:1-5); of course, after the Hour takes place, all the dust of the earthly tombs of billions of bodies of people will be destroyed as the earth and the whole universe will be destroyed; hence, the word (tombs) in 82:4 refers to Barsakh tombs of souls which will be resurrected and clothed in garments made of their deeds which will be made known to them as per 82:5.

4/2: "Does he not know? When the contents of the tombs are scattered around. And the contents of the chests are obtained. Their Lord, on that Day, is fully informed of them." (100:9-11); again, tombs here are of souls inside the Barsakh realm and each of these souls will see its deeds and secrets of hearts/chests in the Book of Deeds which has archived their actions, thoughts, words, stances, secrets, feelings,...etc. 

4/3: "Then He puts him to death, and stores him. Then, when He wills, He will resurrect him." (80:21-22); this is about the invisible Barsakh tombs which are used for the storage of souls of the dead in an earthly Barsakh level.

4/4: "That is because God is the truth, and because He gives life to the dead, and because He is Capable of everything. And because the Hour is coming - there is no doubt about it - and because God will resurrect those in the tombs." (22:6-7); the context here is about the resurrection or reviving the souls of the dead from their Barsakh tombs.

Secondly: the exclusive focus on the physical human bodies leads to denying the two earthly Barsakh-level angels assigned to every human soul to record its deeds:

 The Lord God says the following in the Holy Quran.

1- "He is the Dominant One over His servants, and He sends guardians over you, until, when death overtakes one of you, Our envoys take him away, and they never fail. Then they are brought back to God, their True Master. Unquestionably, His is the Judgment, and He is the Swiftest of judges." (6:61-62); this means that the (guardians) are the angels whose mission is to transcribe/write deeds of each soul; their mission ends when the angels/envoys of death take this soul to Barsakh as this soul fulfilled its duration of test on earth and its Book of Deeds is like an archive which is stored along with the soul in Barsakh tombs. The souls and their deed will be united upon resurrection on the Last Day.

2- "Though over you are watchers. Honest recorders. They know everything you do." (82:10-12); these are the two angels assigned for every human soul to write its deeds.

3- "It is the same; whether one of you conceals his speech, or declares it; whether he goes into hiding by night, or goes out by day. He has a succession; before him and behind him, watching him as per God’s command..." (13:10-11); this means angels assigned to write every single one of the deeds and words of a given human soul never leave the soul during its lifetime on earth as per the Lord God's leave and Divine Will; i.e., these angels execute His command of recording the lifetime of the souls.

4- "There is no soul without a watcher for it." (86:4); this indicates the fact that there are angels assigned for each human soul; this applies to all human beings.

5- "As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready." (50:17-19); again, these "two receivers" are the two angels assigned for every human soul, during its lifetime on earth until death, to write its deeds.

Thirdly: the mechanism of recording deeds of the human souls:

1- "God created you from dust, then from a small drop; then He made you pairs. No female conceives, or delivers, except with His knowledge. No living thing advances in years, or its life is shortened, except it be in a Record. That is surely easy for God" (35:11); we have mentioned before that every human baby is born with two containers: the container of time or the soul's duration on earth and the containers of deeds/events; each second passes from the first container to the second one; this goes on until the first container ends and the human being dies after fulfilling the assigned duration of test on earth; the second container is sealed/closed as an archive of deeds which will weave the garment that will clothe the resurrected soul on the Last Day. 

2- "When the sky is ruptured. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must." (84:1-2); souls die and return to Barsakh, its original place, and when the Hour comes and the earth and the universe are destroyed, resurrected souls will leave their earthly (as opposed to heavenly) Barsakh-level tombs to be judged on the Last Day; this is about the earth and its Barsakh levels: "And when the earth is leveled out. And casts out what is in it, and becomes empty. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must." (84:3-5); this means the Planet Earth, before/during its destruction, will obey its Creator, the Lord God, and force the souls out of its earthly Barsakh level upon the Resurrection Day; this is about the Book of Deeds and the outcome either in Paradise or in Hell for eternity: "O man! You are laboring towards your Lord, and you will meet Him. As for him who is given his book in his right hand. He will have an easy settlement. And will return to his family delighted. But as for him who is given his book behind his back. He will call for death. And will enter the Blaze." (84:6-12).

3- This is about the advent of the Hour when the earth and the universe is destroyed: "When the sun is rolled up. When the stars are dimmed. When the mountains are set in motion. When the relationships are suspended. When the beasts are gathered. When the oceans are set aflame." (81:1-6); this is about souls being united with their deeds upon resurrection: "When the souls are paired." (81:7).

4- This is about the destruction of the earth and its Barsakh levels within the Hour of the destruction of the universe: "When the earth is shaken with its quake. And the earth brings out its loads." (99:1-2); these loads are the Book of deeds of souls and not anything physical or tangible on earth; for instance, mountains will be destroyed: "On the Day when the earth and the mountains tremble, and the mountains become heaps of sand." (74:14); hence, the resurrected souls will ask the following about the earth: "And man says, “What is the matter with it?”" (99:3); this is about the destroyed earth and its Barsakh levels: "On that Day, it will tell its tales. For your Lord will have inspired it." (99:4-5); (tales) here means the Book of Deeds of each soul stored as per the inspiration of the Lord God; this is about the gathering of souls for Judgment as they see/read their deeds: "On that Day, the people will emerge in droves, to be shown their deeds. Whoever has done an atom's weight of good will see it. Whoever has done an atom's weight of evil will see it." (99:6-8).

5- Souls are resurrected on the Last Day while carrying its deeds; this is about the unjust sinners carrying its loads/burdens of sins: "Losers are those who deny the encounter with God. Then, when the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, “Alas for us, how we have neglected it.” And they will carry their burdens on their backs - evil is what they carry." (6:31); this is about disbelievers: "They will carry their own loads, and other loads with their own. And they will be questioned on the Day of Resurrection concerning what they used to fabricate." (29:13).

Fourthly: the nature of the Barsakh DNA of human souls:

1- All souls were created by the Lord God from the soul of Adam; the soul of Adam's wife/mate was created from the soul of Adam: "O people! Fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul, and created from it its mate, and propagated from them many men and women..." (4:1); "It is He who created you from a single soul, and made from it its mate..." (7:189); "He created you from one soul, then made from it its mate..." (39:6). Souls are assigned durations on earth to be tested and they die by leaving the bodies forever and return to Barsakh while carrying a body woven of their recorded/regarded deeds and faith; this new, eternal body of each soul will emerge upon resurrection. The resurrection process is the reverse one in relation to the creation process: "Your creation and your resurrection are only as a single soul..." (31:28).

2- Despite the above point, each human soul is unique and special because of its deeds and its carrying a storage for the souls of its ancestors and another storage for the souls of its progeny just as one's body carries some features of DNA of one's ancestors: "And it is He who produced you from a single soul, then a repository, then a depository..." (6:98). This uniqueness is the Barsakh DNA of each human soul.

3- The Lord God refutes the stance of deniers of the Resurrection Day here: "Does man think that We will not reassemble his bones? Yes indeed; We are Able to reconstruct his fingertips." (75:3-4); these (fingertips) are of souls and not bodies even when souls will take the image and shape of their physical bodies on earth (as souls of relatives and friends will know one another); such fingertips of souls have unique fingerprints (our guess: maybe like those fingerprints of the hands of the destroyed earthly bodies of these souls) and also unique Barsakh DNA. This is asserted by the Quranic fact that the angels of death slap the faces and kick the bottoms of the souls, not bodies, of disbelievers: "If only you could see, as the angels take away those who disbelieve, striking their faces and their bottoms: “Taste the torment of the Burning.”" (8:50); "How about when the angels take them at death, beating their faces and their bottoms?" (47:27).

4- This means the archived deeds of each soul, in its sealed/closed Book of Deeds after death, carry their unique Barsakh DNA; this compellingly reminds us of 6:98; this is about souls' deeds archived in Barsakh: "For every person We have attached his fate to his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will bring out for him a book which he will find spread open. “Read your book; today there will be none but yourself to call you to judge.”" (17:13-14); this means that on the Last Day, souls will read/see their Book of Deeds.

5- The unique Barsakh DNA of each of the human souls is carried in its Book of Deeds inside Barsakh which will be akin to the Barsakh DNA of the physical, earthly body of this soul since it will carry its bodily image. Science and advanced technologies of today show that deeds of people carry their unique DNA (and also some unique heat/energy of their bodies) just like fingerprints and this is employed to prove the actions and the presence of criminals on the crime scene.

6- On the Resurrection Day, each of the human souls will be united with its deeds which carry its Barsakh DNA: "When the souls are paired." (81:7).

The Scales of Judging Souls on of the Day of Judgment Are Based Also on Weighing Feelings and Not Only on Overt Deeds of Human Souls

Introduction:

  The Book of Deeds is something and the weighing of deeds in the Scales of the Day of Judgment is something else. On the Last Day souls will be resurrected while carrying its deeds (i.e., archive of deeds forming the eternal garments of these souls). Resurrected souls will see/read their deeds (see 99:6-8); "What is with this book that leaves nothing, small or big, but it has enumerated it?” They will find everything they had done present. Your Lord does not wrong anyone." (18:49). The archive of each soul includes recording audiovisual words/actions and also recording invisible thoughts/feelings of the souls; yet, the Scales of the Day of Judgment will weigh the invisible aspect since monotheism will make good deeds acceptable and bad ones forgiven (for those who have repented) so that souls enter into Paradise; unrepentant sinful souls will enter into Hell and so are souls of polytheists/disbelievers and their good deeds will be nullified and wasted; hence, stances, sentiments/feelings, and innermost thoughts/secrets of souls are of paramount importance in relation to the Scales of the Day of Judgment. We provide some details in the points below.

Firstly: between scales in this transient world and the Scales of the Day of Judgment:

1- The two sides of the Scales of the Day of Judgment will carry the Divine Book (e.g. the Quran) on one side, as the Criterion or unit of measurement, and the Book of Deeds of each soul on the other side to be weighed as per the Divine Book; i.e., the soul's deeds, thoughts, sentiments, faith,...etc. were against the Lord God's Word or matching it. This Criterion or the Divine Book to judge human souls and weigh their deeds and faith is One; this means the Only Book in Islam/monotheism now in our era is the Holy Quran (the Lord God's Word) and NOT the illogical duality, i.e., of the Quran plus Sunna-hadiths books, proposed by the polytheistic Muhammadan ignoramuses. As per the Divine Justice of the Lord God on the Last Day, the Scales of the Day of Judgment must be heavy with many good deeds and monotheism so that the soul is among the winners in Paradise; those with light Scales because of lack of sufficient good deeds and lack of monotheistic belief will enter into Hell: "We will set up the Scales of Justice for the Day of Resurrection, so that no soul will suffer the least injustice. And even if it be the weight of a mustard-seed, We will bring it up. Sufficient are We as Judge." (21:47); "Those whose Scales are heavy - those are the successful. But those whose Scales are light - those are they who have lost their souls; in Hell they will dwell forever." (23:102-103); "The Scales on that Day will be just. Those whose weights are heavy - it is they who are the successful. But as for those whose weights are light - it is they who have lost their souls, because they were unjust towards Our Verses." (7:8-9); "As for he whose Scales are heavy. He will be in a pleasant life. But as for he whose Scales are light. His mother is the Abyss. Do you know what it is? A Raging Fire." (101:6-11). By the way, the word (mother) in 101:9 means that Hell is the final abode/womb which will engulf heedless sinners for eternity; they will never get out of Hell.

Secondly: the Scales of the Day of Judgment:

1- On the Last Day, the Divine Book will be put forth and the souls (of prophets/messengers and the witnesses who will testify against their peoples first and then the rest of other souls) will be gathered for Judgment at the Scales: "And the earth will shine with the Light of its Lord; and the Book will be put in place; and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought in; and Judgment will be passed among them equitably, and they will not be wronged. And every soul will be fully compensated for what it had done. He is well aware of what they do." (39:69-70).

2- The Book of Deeds of a given soul is weighed on one side of the Scales against the Divine Book as Criterion, the Truth, or unit of measurement on the other side of the Scales; lightness in the Scales means that this soul denied, rejected, disbelieved in, were unjust towards, or were heedless of God's Verses; this is inferred from this Quranic context: "The Scales on that Day will be just. Those whose weights are heavy - it is they who are the successful. But as for those whose weights are light - it is they who have lost their souls, because they were unjust towards Our Verses." (7:8-9).

3- The witnesses (i.e., prophets/messengers and preachers of the Truth who are among non-prophets) will testify against their contemporaries/nations/peoples. By the way, the testimony of witnesses against the Muhammadans will emphasize their accusing the Quran of [1] being lacking and insufficient in religion, and [2] needing their fabricated hadiths/narratives: "On the Day when We raise in every community a witness against them, from among them, and bring you as a witness against these. We have revealed to you the Book, as an explanation of all things, and guidance, and mercy and good news for those who submit." (16:89). Muhammad will testify against his people/contemporaries and also against the rejecters of the Quran who abandoned it while claiming their belief in it: "And the messenger will say, “My Lord, my people have abandoned this Quran.”" (25:30).   

Thirdly: the Scales of the Day of Judgment include weighing feelings of human souls and not only their deeds:

1- The Day of Judgment is for all souls of all humanity regardless of their different tongues: "...That is a Day for which humanity will be gathered together - that is a Day to be witnessed." (11:103); each human community will have their collective Book of Deeds plus the individual Book of Deeds of each soul: "You will see every community on its knees; every community will be called to its Book: “Today you are being repaid for what you used to do. This Book of Ours speaks about you in truth. We have been transcribing what you have been doing.”" (45:28-29).

2- Judgment and the Scales of the Hereafter are based on the universal language of feelings which is shared by all human souls despite their different tongues, regions, and eras. Souls have feelings/sentiments of monotheism or monotheism, disbelief or belief, heedlessness or remembrance, impiety or piety, disobedience or obedience, hypocrisy or devotion/sincerity,...etc. Hence, there are souls which sanctify/deify and worship gods/allies/saints (among mortals and things) besides Allah and believe in many discourses/hadiths alongside with the Quran and make them replace or supplant its verses; there are those monotheists who believe in the Only Discourse in Islam: the Holy Quran. We refer our readers to this article of ours, in English, titled (Quranic Terminology: Discourse/Hadeeth), found on this link:

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=20328   

3- Accordingly, the universal language of feelings/sentiments includes piety and its opposite or lack of it within prayers and other acts of worship as this (im)piety is not shown overtly; rather, it lies within the human souls' chests/hearts known only to the Omniscient Lord God Who knows it when prayers are offered within impiety by hypocrites whose Scales are very light and within piety by monotheists who fill their Scales with many good deeds: "Successful are the believers. Those who are pious in their prayers." (23:1-2); "The hypocrites try to deceive God, but He is deceiving them. And when they stand for prayers, they stand lazily, showing off in front of people, and remembering God only a little." (4:142); "...and that they do not approach prayers except lazily..." (9:54); "So woe to those who pray. Those who are heedless of their prayers. Those who put on the appearance. And withhold the assistance." (107:4-7).

4- Sincere, humble supplications in murmuring voices within monotheism and their opposite; i.e., the grave sin/transgression of religious singing by some Christians and some Muhammadans and supplications in loud voices plus polytheistic invocations, pertain to the universally shared language of feelings/sentiments which will be weighed in the Scales of the Day of Judgment: "...You call upon Him humbly and inwardly: “If He delivers us from this, We will surely be among the thankful.”" (6:63); " Call upon your Lord humbly and in low voices. He does not love the aggressors." (7:55); "And remember your Lord within yourself, humbly and fearfully, and quietly..." (7:205).

5- Monotheism, sincere repentance, dedication, and devotion as opposed to heedlessness, non-repentance, polytheism, and hypocrisy pertain to the universally shared language of feelings/sentiments which will be weighed in the Scales of the Day of Judgment: "...So call upon Him, and dedicate your religion to Him alone..." (7:29); "We sent down to you the Book with the Truth, so worship God, dedicating your religion to Him." (39:2); "Say, “I was commanded to worship God, dedicating my religion exclusively to Him." (39:11); "So call upon God, with sincere devotion to Him, even though the disbelievers resent it." (40:14); "The hypocrites will be in the lowest level of the Fire, and you will find no helper for them. Except those who repent, and reform, and hold fast to God, and dedicate their religion to God alone. These are with the believers; and God will give the believers a great reward." (4:145-146); "It is He who transports you across land and sea. Until, when you are on ships, sailing in a favorable wind, and rejoicing in it, a raging wind arrives. The waves surge over them from every side, and they realize that they are besieged. Thereupon they pray to God, professing sincere devotion to Him: “If You save us from this, we will be among the thankful ones.” But then, when He has saved them, they commit violations on earth, and oppose justice. O people! Your violations are against your own souls. It is the enjoyment of the present life. Then to Us is your return, and We will inform you of what you used to do." (10:22-23); "And most of them do not believe in God unless as polytheists." (12:106).

6- The souls of people who lived and died within piety, known only to the Omniscient Lord God, will have heavy Scales allowing them to enter into Paradise which is inherited only by the pious ones: "Such is Paradise which We will give as inheritance to those of Our servants who are pious." (19:63); "And those who feared their Lord within piety will be led to Paradise in throngs. Until, when they have reached it, and its gates are opened, its keepers will say to them, “Peace be upon you, you have been good, so enter it, to abide therein eternally.”" (39:73); "Whatever good they do, they will not be denied it. God knows the pious ones." (3:115); "...God is fully aware of the righteous ones." (9:44).

7- The impious souls will have light Scales and their fate is Hell abiding therein forever; their good deeds (as no souls lack good deeds) will be nullified by the Lord God because of their disbelief, impiety, and polytheism.

Fifthly: nullifying the good deeds of polytheists/disbelievers when weighed in the Scales of the Day of Judgment:

1- When the Lord God nullifies the good deeds of polytheists/disbelievers (i.e., wasting its fruit or outcome or making them in vain), their sins are what is left to them in the Scales and they will be among losers in Hell: "It was revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you adhere to polytheism, your works will be in vain, and you will be of the losers." (39:65); "We will proceed to the works they did, and will turn them into scattered dust." (25:23).

2- This means their Scales will be light and not heavy; their nullified good deeds have no weight in the Scales; their fate is Hell for eternity: "It is they who rejected the Verses of their Lord, and the Encounter with Him. So their works are in vain. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will give them no weight at all." (18:105).

3- This includes those who die as polytheistic disbelievers who rejected monotheism/Islam; e.g., those who build harmful mosques to worship/sanctify and revere/praise the false allies/saints/gods alongside with the Only True Lord God: Allah. "...Whoever among you turns back from his religion, and dies a disbeliever - those are they whose works will come to nothing, in this life, and in the Hereafter. Those are the inmates of the Fire, abiding in it forever." (2:217); "It is not for the polytheists to attend God’s mosques while professing their disbelief. These - their works are in vain, and in the Fire they will abide." (9:17).

Sixthly: the meaning of nullifying their deeds within the mechanism of the Scales of the Day of Judgment:

   It is impossible that on the Day of Judgment, there will be a case of good deeds and bad ones equal to one another in terms of quantity; monotheism (i.e., dedicating religion and acts of worship within piety only to Allah and to believe in the Quran only without other discourses/narratives) will make the Scales heavy, thus allowing the good, pious souls to enter into Paradise forever. In contrast, polytheism (i.e., deifying mortals/things and the belief in devilish hadiths/discourses/narratives/tales) will make the Scales light and the sins of the impious souls will cause them to enter into Hell for eternity. 

Lastly:

  During the weighing of the deeds, thoughts, feelings, words, stances, etc. in the Scales of the Day of Judgment, the innermost secrets of the human souls are searched and weighed as such sentiments/secrets drove souls to perform any deeds; this is about the resurrection: "He is certainly able to return him. On the Day when the secrets are disclosed." (86:8-9).

Torment of Physical Bodies on Earth and Torment of Eternal Bodies in the Hereafter

Introduction:

 It is a common misconception that the physical bodies created of the earth will be resurrected along with souls and that torment is only in the Hereafter. We know from the Quran that each human soul has two bodies: the earthly one it wears during the test of life on earth, and it leaves forever in death, and the eternal body which will clothe it composed of its bad or good deeds recorded by the angels. We know also from the Quran that torment may be inflicted on earthly bodies in this transient world; torment will continue, in Hell, for these sinful souls on the Last Day if they die without repentance.   

Firstly: torment inflicted in this temporary world:

  The main Quranic rule regarding the torment inflicted by the Lord God on sinners in this transient world is found here: "...Whoever performs evil deeds will be penalized for them..." (4:123); hence, recompense has the same nature as one's deeds/works. This means any sins or bad deeds performed by monotheists or polytheists will be punished in this world in the form of ordeals, hardships, calamities, losses...etc. and this would be lessened if the sinful persons repent, reform their souls, make amends, and sincerely implore the Lord God for pardon and forgiveness. "Whatever misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned; and yet He pardons much." (42:30). Evil souls of those unjust, oppressive corrupters who seek possessions/riches, by whatever dishonest means, commit many transgressions, sins, injustices, and violations. Hence, their ill-gotten wealth and their pampered, corrupt, troublemaking offspring will be the reason for their sorrow, anxiety, and torment in this world. This is exemplified by the Yathreb hypocrites in the Lord God's prediction about them: "Let neither their possessions nor their children impress you. God intends to torment them through them in this worldly life, and that their souls depart while they are disbelievers." (9:55); "Do not let their possessions and their children impress you. God desires to torment them through them in this world, and their souls depart while they are disbelievers." (9:85). Disbelievers will be tormented in this worldly life and in the Afterlife if they die without sincere repentance: " As for those who disbelieve, I will torment them with a severe torment, in this world and the next, and they will have no helpers." (3:56); the same applies to the Yathreb hypocrites during Muhammad's era and to all disbelieving, unjust souls in all eras. Such torment may include heavy losses, depression, anxiety, deep-seated fear and insecurity, crises, physical and psychological ailments, catastrophes, hardships...etc. In contrast, part from Paradise in the Hereafter for pious monotheists who believe in Allah and in the Last Day, their reward in this worldly life is contentment, security, serenity, tranquility, peace of mind, and psychological wellbeing; these items pertain to the soul/heart. Their bliss and joy continued in Paradise. "Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while being a believer, We will grant him a good life - and We will reward them according to the best of what they used to do." (16:97); "Those who believe, and whose hearts find comfort in the remembrance of God. Surely, it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find comfort.”" (13:28); "While those who believe, and work righteousness, and believe in what was sent down to Muhammad - and it is the truth from their Lord - He remits their sins, and relieves their concerns." (47:2); "He will guide them, and will improve their state of mind. And will admit them into Paradise, which He has identified for them." (47:5-6). The torment of this worldly life is exemplified by worshipers of Mammon/money; apart from their suffering heavy losses, anxiety, and ailments, they will enter into Hell because of their stinginess/greed in case of their death without repentance and without heeding the repeated warnings of instances of tests/ordeals: "Those who withhold what God has given them of his bounty should not assume that is good for them. In fact, it is bad for them. They will be encircled by their hoardings on the Day of Resurrection. To God belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth, and God is well acquainted with what you do." (3:180); this is about corrupt clergymen of Satan: "O you who believe! Many of the rabbis and priests consume people's wealth illicitly, and hinder from God’s path. Those who hoard gold and silver, and do not spend them in God’s cause, inform them of a painful torment. On the Day when they will be heated in the Fire of Hell, then their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs will be branded with them: “This is what you hoarded for yourselves; so taste what you used to hoard.”" (9:34-35); these two verses apply also to clergymen of the Muhammadans, past and present. Torment inflicted in this worldly life is not a form of revenge; rather, it is a warning so that heedless sinners may repent and remember their Lord God and the Last Day; some of them pay attention, remember, and repent and some do not. The Lord God says the following in the Holy Quran: "But as for those who transgressed, their shelter is the Fire. Every time they try to get out of it, they will be brought back into it, and it will be said to them, “Taste the suffering of the Fire which you used to deny.” We will make them taste the lesser torment, prior to the greater torment, so that they may return." (32:20-21); "When some adversity touches the human being, he prays to his Lord, repenting to Him. But then, when He confers on him a grace of His, he forgets what he was praying for before, and he attributes rivals to God, in order to lead astray from His way. Say, “Enjoy your disbelief for a little while; you will be among the inmates of the Fire.”" (39:8); "When harm afflicts you at sea, those you pray to vanish, except for Him. But when He saves you to land, you turn away; the human being tends to disbelieve." (17:67); "Do they not see that they are tested once or twice every year? Yet they do not repent, and they do not learn." (9:126); "What of him whose evil deed was made attractive to him, and so he regards it as good? God leads astray those willing to be misguided, and He guides those willing to be guided. Therefore, do not waste your soul sorrowing over them. God knows exactly what they do." (35:8); "...Their hearts have become blackened by what they used to earn." (83:14). The term (hearts) means the souls of those unrepentant inners who will be the Hell dwellers whom we discuss in the points below.

Secondly: the torment of the soul within its eternal body inside Hell in the Hereafter:

  The Lord God says the following in the Holy Quran: "...Their hearts have become blackened by what they used to earn." (83:14); this means their sins and non-repentance made their souls blacken; i.e., their souls will wear eternal bodies/garments woven of sins; they will be fuel for Hell-Fire; the Lord God warns believers here beforehand against this: "O you who believe! Protect yourselves and your families from a Fire, whose fuel is people and stones. Over it are angels, fierce and powerful. They never disobey God in anything He commands them, and they carry out whatever they are commanded." (66:6). The Lord God is Light and His Book is the Light of guidance: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The allegory of His Light is that of a pillar on which is a lamp. The lamp is within a glass. The glass is like a brilliant planet, fueled by a blessed tree, an olive tree, neither eastern nor western. Its oil would almost illuminate, even if no fire has touched it. Light upon Light. God guides to His Light those who are willing to be guided. God thus cites the parables for the people. God is cognizant of everything." (24:35). The Divine, Celestial Book is Light (see 5:15-16, 5:44, and 5:46). There only two stances, in this worldly life, of human souls regarding this Divine Light/Book: to (dis)believe in it. This is why human souls, in this world and the next one, are generally divided by the Lord God into believers and disbelievers. Following the Light of guidance means to adhere to piety; the conscience of the soul will prompt monotheists to seek Paradise by performing many good deeds: "Is he who was dead, then We gave him life, and made for him a light by which he walks among the people, like he who is in total darkness, and cannot get out of it? Thus the doings of disbelievers are made to appear good to them." (6:122); "Those who are righteous - when an impulse from Satan strikes them, they remind themselves, and immediately see clearly." (7:201). This figurative Light of guidance will turn into literal light in the Hereafter for the pious ones who deserve Paradise: "On the Day when you see the believing men and believing women - their light radiating ahead of them, and to their right: “Good news for you today: gardens beneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein forever. That is the great triumph.” On the Day when the hypocritical men and hypocritical women will say to those who believed, “Wait for us; let us absorb some of your light.” It will be said, “Go back behind you, and seek light.” A wall will be raised between them, in which is a door; within it is mercy, and outside it is torment." (57:12-13); "Those who believe in God and His messengers - these are the sincere and the witnesses with their Lord; they will have their reward and their light. But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our Verses - these are the Hell dwellers." (57:19). The disbelievers who reject the Light of guidance (i.e., the Celestial Book or the Reminder, or the Remembrance) are misguided the more by devilish companions, who pertain to the darkness of evil and polytheism/disbelief, seen by their souls only on the Last Day: "Whoever shuns the Remembrance of the Dominant Lord, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion. They hinder them from the path, though they think they are guided. Until, when He comes to Us, he will say, “If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts.” What an evil companion! It will not benefit you on that Day, since you did wrong. You are partners in torment." (43:36-39); more detail are found in the following Quranic context: "We created the human being, and We know what his soul whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready. The daze of death has come in truth: “This is what you tried to evade.” And the Trumpet is blown: “This is the Promised Day.” And every soul will come forward, accompanied by a driver and a witness. “You were in neglect of this, so We lifted your screen from you, and your vision today is keen.” And his companion will say, “This is what I have ready with me.” “Throw into Hell every stubborn disbeliever. Preventer of good, aggressor, doubter. Who fabricated another god with God; toss him into the intense torment.” His companion will say, “Our Lord, I did not make him rebel, but he was far astray.” He will say, “Do not feud in My presence - I had warned you in advance. The decree from Me will not be changed, and I am not unjust to the servants.” On the Day when We will say to Hell, “Are you full?” And it will say, “Are there any more?” And Paradise will be brought closer to the pious, not far away." (50:16-31).

 The worst blackened hearts/faces/souls in the Hereafter are the deceitful imams/clergymen of disbelief and polytheism who fabricate terrestrial religions based on false, invented, devilish narratives/hadiths ascribed by them to the Lord God and to His Religion; we read this about them: "On the Day of Resurrection, you will see those who told lies about God with their faces blackened. Is there not a place in Hell for the arrogant ones?" (39:60). In contrast, we read this about the followers of the Truth: "What about someone whose heart God has opened to Islam, so that he follows a Light from His Lord? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the mention of God. Those are in manifest error." (39:22-23). Blackened souls/faces in the Hereafter have nothing to do with skin colors of the human races mentioned here: "And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. In this are signs for those who know." (30:22); regardless of the different skin colors in this world, the souls of heedless and unjust sinners/disbelievers in the Hereafter will have blackened faces as if covered in layers if darkness and this is in contrast to radiant faces of the pious, good souls in the Hereafter: "On the Day when some faces will be whitened, and some faces will be blackened. As for those whose faces are blackened: “Did you disbelieve after your belief?” Then taste the torment for having disbelieved. But as for those whose faces are whitened: they are in God’s mercy, remaining in it forever." (3:106-107); "Faces on that Day will be radiant. Laughing and rejoicing. And Faces on that Day will be covered with misery. Overwhelmed by remorse. These are the disbelieving sinners." (80:38-42).     

Lastly:

 The Divine Justice is manifested here; souls choose their fate in the Hereafters per their choosing (mis)guidance in this transient world and the Lord God's Divine Will endorses and affirms what one chooses for oneself; one's faith and deeds will bring to one either Hell torment or Paradise bliss: "...No burdened soul carries the burdens of another..." (17:15) ; "No burdened soul can carry the burden of another." (35:81); "That no soul bears the burdens of another soul. And that the human being attains only what he strives for. And that his efforts will be witnessed. Then he will be rewarded for it the fullest reward." (53:38-41). The Lord God is never unjust towards the Hell dwellers; they have been unjust towards their own souls: "...We did not wrong them, but they were unjust towards their own souls." (16:118); Hell is the recompense and outcome of their deeds: "But whoever brings evil - their faces will be tumbled into the Fire. Will you be rewarded except for what you used to do?" (27:90). As always, the Lord God says nothing but the Absolute Truth.

About the Law of Pairs, the Houris, and the Angels of Hell

Firstly: the law of pairs in the Quran:

1- The Holy Quran, revealed more than 14 centuries ago, asserts the law of pairs in all (non)human and (in)animate creatures: male and female, matter and anti-matter, atom and anti-atom, nucleus and anti-nucleus, the universe and the counter-universe,...etc.; the Only One Who has no pair is the Lord God: "Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is nothing comparable to Him.”" (112:1-4). "We created all things in pairs, so that you may reflect and ponder." (51:49); "He Who created all the pairs..." (43:12); "Glory be to Him who created all the pairs; of what the earth produces, and of their own souls, and of what they do not know." (36:36).

2- As for human beings, the law of pairs is the creation of human males and human females. "God has given you mates from among yourselves; and has produced for you, from your mates, children and grandchildren; and has provided you with good things. Will they then believe in falsehood, and refuse God’s favors?" (16:72); "And that it is He who created the two kinds - the male and the female. From a sperm drop, when emitted. And that upon Him is the next emergence." (53:45-47). This (next emergence) is the soul's eternal body woven of its faith and deeds which will emerge on the Resurrection Day.

3- When an atom of matter encounters an atom of antimatter, they destroy each other; the same will occur in the tremendous explosion of the Hour when the universe collides against the counter-universe. This does not happen when the human male and the human female meet within having marital sex as mates that breed; marriage is ordained for the procreation of children. This applies to pairs of plants, insects, and animals of different types. The difference between the male and female human bodies is not a one of contradiction as both sexes complement each other and are born of one soul of Adam: "O people! Fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul, and created from it its mate, and propagated from them many men and women..." (4:1). Science proves that in each human male, there is a percentage of femininity and that in each human female, there is a percentage of masculinity. 

4- In light of the above, we assert the Quranic fact that, unlike the common but wrong notion, houris as part of Paradise pleasures and bliss, will not be exclusively granted to those who were male pious believers; rather, they will be granted also to those who were female pious believers; we mean that the new, eternal bodies which will clothe the pious souls who deserve Paradise will make all of the Paradise dwellers pertaining to one sex. All of the Paradise dwellers will enjoy houris (who will be woven of good deeds as will be the case with other Paradise pleasures described in the Quran) regardless of the sex of their bodies during their lifetimes on earth when they were males and females. Let us give this example to illustrate this point further: a married couple (i.e., a husband and a wife) have performed many good deeds and acts of worship within monotheism and piety while seeking to gratify their Lord God and they have avoided grave sins and supplicated to the Lord God to forgive their mistakes; when their souls will enter into Paradise on the Last Day, they will be no longer a man/husband/male and a woman/wife/female; they will be no longer a couple; both of them will belong to one sex, which is neither male or female, labeled as (Paradise dwellers); both of them will have houris as part of their rewards in Paradise bliss and pleasures. In this world, their good deeds, monotheism, piety, and acts of worship had no sex (i.e., masculine/feminine or male/female) at all attached to them; both souls on the Last Day and inside Paradise will be clothed in radiant garments composed of their good deeds. All descriptions of Paradise pleasures will apply to both of them.    

5- The Quranic verses which describe Paradise pleasures and bliss (including houris) employ the figurative style so that the limited human mind can understand and grasp; in fact, imagining what Paradise will look like (in the New, Eternal Realm of the Last Day which has static time which has no present, past, and future and it has a beginning but no end) is beyond the capacity of the human senses and mind/heart/soul still imprisoned in the flesh bodies created from mud and confined in this physical realm known as the Planet Earth which is enveloped by the dimension of moving time. The metaphoric figurative style is employed here about Paradise though no human tongues can ever fully describe it: "The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous ones: in it are rivers of pure water, and rivers of milk forever fresh, and rivers of wine delightful to the drinkers, and rivers of strained honey. And therein they will have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord." (47:15); this is about how people cannot imagine fully what Paradise will look like: "No soul knows what eye’s delight awaits them - a reward for what they used to do." (32:17).

Secondly: the Quranic description of houris:

 Each resurrected soul will be united with its garment made of its good or bad deeds: "When the souls are paired." (81:7). Good, pious souls will have radiant garments and radiant, purified spouses/houris inside Paradise: "So it is, and We will couple them with gorgeous houris." (44:54); "...And they will have pure spouses therein, and they will abide therein forever." (2:25); "...where they will remain forever, and purified spouses..." (3:15); "Relaxing on luxurious furnishings; and We will couple them with gorgeous houris." (52:20); "The inhabitants of Paradise, on that Day, will be happily busy. They and their spouses, in shades, reclining on couches." (36:55-56); "Enter Paradise, you and your spouses, joyfully." (43:70); "With them will be bashful spouses with lovely eyes. As if they were closely guarded pearls." (37:48-49); "In them are spouses restraining their glances, untouched before by any man or jinn." (55:56); "Houris secluded in the tents. So which of your Lord’s marvels will you deny? Whom no human has touched before, nor jinn. So which of your Lord’s marvels will you deny? Reclining on green cushions, and exquisite carpets. So which of your Lord’s marvels will you deny? Blessed be the name of your Lord, Full of Majesty and Splendor." (55:72-78); "And uplifted mattresses. We have created them of special creation. And made them virgins. Tender and un-aging." (56:34-38); "And lovely houris. The likenesses of treasured pearls. As a reward for what they used to do." (56:22-24).

Thirdly: the angels of Hell:

 Let us provide this example: a married couple (i.e., a husband and a wife) have chosen to commit many sins/crimes and they intentionally have disobeyed the commands of the Lord God; they were never grateful for the bounties granted to them by the Lord God; they were polytheists who deified and believed in intercessors/saints and false mortal deities; they died without repentance. Since this husband and this wife have rejected the Quran which is the Remembrance of their Lord God, their devilish companions urged them to go on sinning and to continue their evildoing; on the Last Day, both souls of this man and this woman will wear a new, eternal body woven of their sins and bad deeds; they are no longer a couple (i.e., a man and a wife), as they will belong to one sex, which is neither male or female, labeled as (Hell dwellers). Their bad deeds and sins will fuel Hell and its torment for them forever; this context apply to (fe)male human beings who will deserve Hell because disbelief has no sex; it is not masculine or feminine: "As for those who disbelieve, for them is the Fire of Hell, wherein they will never be finished off and die, nor will its torment be lightened for them. Thus We will repay every disbeliever. And they will scream therein, “Our Lord, let us out, and we will act righteously, differently from the way we used to act.” Did We not give you a life long enough, in which anyone who wanted to understand would have understood? And the warner did come to you. So taste. The unjust ones will have no helper." (35:36-37). In contrast to radiant, beautiful houris in Paradise woven of good deeds of pious souls for their enjoyment/pleasure, the souls of the Hell dwellers will have pairs (woven of their polytheism, bad deeds, and sins) which will add to their torment: "All this. Let them taste it - boiling and bitter cold. And similar torments of diverse pairs." (38:57-58); there will be angels of Hell headed by an angel named (Malik), created when Hell will be created in the Hereafter, to torment Hell dwellers (who will include human souls and also Satan and the sinners among the jinn and the devils): "And they will cry, “O Malik, let your Lord finish us off.” He will say, “You are staying.” We have given you the Truth, but most of you hate the Truth." (43:77-78); the Lord God warns monotheists here against this: "O you who believe! Protect yourselves and your families from a Fire, whose fuel is people and stones. Over it are angels, fierce and powerful. They never disobey God in anything He commands them, and they carry out whatever they are commanded." (66:6); such angels will be more powerful than Hell as they will not be tormented and they will not feel the Hell-Fire.

 Thus, the law of pairs ends when the universe is destroyed by the advent of the Hour; the human souls in Hell and in Paradise will be no longer males and females; no procreation will occur in the Hereafter and the Eternal Life in the Eternal Realm. Resurrected souls will be classified as per their deeds and faith/belief. Hence, houris of Paradise will be for all Paradise dwellers sans exception regardless of their previous sex (i.e., [fe]male) during their lifetimes on earth. Likewise, hell dwellers will no longer be males and females as they used to be during their lifetimes on earth; they will be tormented forever by the angels of Hell torment. 

The last line:

 One of the main reasons behind misunderstanding the Quran is to adhere to the erroneous notion that terms and expressions like (those who believed), (believers), and (disbelievers) are intended to refer only to males and that the term (houris) refers to females. We should bear in mind, as we read and ponder the Quranic text, the fact that the masculine and feminine gender of some Quranic/Arabic words does not signify the male or female sex.