The Final Reckoning

The Final Reckoning The Quran and Hadith have predicted this great event, Qiyamah or Doomsday before the Day of Judgement or the Final Reckoning. It will be the day when the whole creation will be gathered before the Lord. All voices will be silenced except for the voice of God. Only the truth will have any weight on that day. Nothing else will be of any consequence. On that day, man will be judged. From the Islamic viewpoint, God had made this world for a limited period. Those signs have appeared, which tell us that this limited period is reaching its end. Then there will be Doomsday. The Prophet Muhammad made it clear that human beings had not been settled on earth for all eternity; that a time would come when the present inhabited world would end and be replaced by another world. Then all the evil people would be sent to the universal dustbin, and all the good people, who obeyed God, would inhabit the eternal world of Paradise. In the 7th century, the Prophet of Islam said that the distance between him and Doomsday was only between his two fingers. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 5301). The phenomenon of global warming shows that this distance has now been covered and that the climatic