This Fleeting Muslim

Life Students'
Association
Nay, but you do love this fleeting life
University of Alberta
And neglect the Hereafter.
Some faces, that Day, will beam
Looking towards their Lord;
And some faces, that Day, will be sad
and dismal,
Knowing that there will be made to befall
them some great calamity.
Yea, when [the soul] reaches to the
throat
And there will be a cry, “Who is a magi-
cian [to restore him]?”
And he is sure that it is the [hour of]
parting
And one leg will be joined with another:
That Day, the drive will be to thy Lord!
For he gave nothing in charity, nor did
he pray!
But called the truth a lie and turned
away,
Then he went to his folk in full conceit!
Nearer unto thee and nearer,
Again nearer unto thee and nearer.
Does man think that he is to be left to
wander without an aim?
Was he not a drop of sperm emitted?
Then he became a clot of blood; then
shaped and fashioned
Then He made of him two sexes, the male For more information please contact:
and the female.
Is not He able to give life to the dead?
Quran 75:20-40 Muslim Students' Association

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And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms
Quran 56:5
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By no means! There shall be no place of refuge! ated you out of dust, then out of sperm, then out of a
Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day. leech-like clot, then out of a morsel of flesh, partly
formed and partly unformed, in order that We may
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On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before
make clear to you; and We cause whom We will to
and left behind.
rest in the wombs for an appointed term, then do We

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Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself, bring you forth as infants, then that you may reach
Even though he puts forth his excuses. your age of full strength; and some of you are called
Quran 75:1-15 to die, and some are sent back to the feeblest old age,
so that they know nothing after having known. And
The Day of Judgement The Return thou seest the earth barren and lifeless, but when We
#) * +) , ) !" + + ) " pour down rain on it, it is stirred, it swells, and it puts
+ ! ) !- The trumpet shall be sounded, when behold! From their graves they forth every kind of beautiful growth.
shall hasten on to their Lord. This is so, because God is the Reality: it is He Who
They will say: Woe unto us! Who hath raised us up from our beds of gives life to the dead, and it is He Who is able to do
repose? This is that which The Most Gracious did promise. And true all things.
! was the word of the messengers! And verily the Hour will come: there can be no doubt
It will be no more than a single Blast, when behold they will all be thereof, or about [the fact] that God will raise up all
" brought up before Us! who are in the graves.
# $ This day no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and you shall Quran 22:5-7
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not be requited aught but that which you did. This Life
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) ) ! ) #) * +) , . Know that the life of the world is only play, and idle
When the Sky is cleft asunder; talk, and pageantry, and boasting among you, and
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) !- When the Stars are scattered; rivalry in respect of wealth and children; as the like-
When the seas are poured forth, ness of vegetation after rain, whereof the growth is
% pleasing to the tillers, but afterward it dries up and
And when the graves are turned upside down;
" & thou seest it turning yellow, then it becometh straw.
" ' Shall each soul know what it has sent forward and held back. And in the Hereafter there is severe punishment, and
O man! What has seduced thee from thy Lord Most Beneficent? forgiveness from God and His good pleasure, whereas
" ! Quran 82:1-6 the life of the world is but matter of illusion.
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The Rising of the Dead Good Conduct
O mankind! if ye have a doubt about the Resurrection, surely We cre-
Surely the men who submit and the women who sub-
I do call to witness the day of resurrection; mit, and the believing men and the believing women,
And I do call to witness the self-accusing soul. and the obeying men and the obeying women, and the
Does man think that We♦ shall not gather his bones? truthful men and the truthful women, and the patient
Verily, We are able to make complete his very finger- men and the patient women and the humble men and
tips the humble women, and the almsgiving men and the
almsgiving women, and the fasting men and the fast-
But man wishes to do wrong in the time in front of him.
ing women, and the men who guard their chastity and
He questions: “When is the Day of Resurrection?” the women who guard, and the men who remember
But when sight becomes dazed, God much and the women who remember - God has
And the moon is buried in darkness. prepared for them forgiveness and a mighty reward.
And sun and moon are united, Quran 33:35
That Day will Man say: “Where is the refuge?”

♦
‘We’ the plural, is used to denote royalty and dignity, not the
plural in number. In English, this is referred to as the ‘royal we’,
and is often used by monarchs.
All things, save God will perish. Even this, the Prophet’s Mosque in Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of
Madinah, Arabia—that is now larger than the entire city was at the time of
good, shall see it!
the Prophet (peace be upon him)—will one day be gone.
Quran 28:84