End of One Who Does Not Adhere to Islam - Part Two

Introduction

Failure and loss will be his outcome. Because of his wrong, he loses the greatest thing that the heart and soul enjoys, which is knowing Allah, meditating in Him, and feeling tranquility with Him. He also loses the world, for he lives there a wretched and confused life, and he loses his own soul for which he amasses the wealth of this world, for he subjects it to a different purpose than that for which it was created.

He thereby does not attain happiness with it in this world, for he makes it live in misery and causes it to die in misery, and it shall be raised among the miserable. Allah says, “As for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their own selves.” (Holy Quran 7:9)

Further Consequences of Disbelief

He will also lose his family, for he lived with them upon disbelief in Allah, and they will also experience misery and hardship like him, and their destination will be Hell. God says, “The losers are those who will lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection.” (Holy Quran 39:15)

On the Day of Resurrection, they will be led to Hellfire, and evil it is as a resting place. Allah says, “(It will be said to the angels): ‘Assemble those who did wrong, together with their spouses and what they used to worship instead of Allah, and lead them on to the way of the Flaming Fire.’” (Holy Quran 37:22-23)

He will live as a disbeliever in his Lord and a denier of his blessings. For Allah created him from nothing and showered His favors on him; how can he then worship, befriend, and thank others besides Him? What ingratitude is greater and more heinous than this?

He will be denied a real and purposeful life.

The man who deserves life is the one who believes in his Lord, knows his goal, recognizes his fate, and is certain of his resurrection. He thereby grants rights to whom they are due. He does not suppress the truth nor harm a creature. He then lives the life of happy people and attains excellence in this world and the Hereafter.

Allah Almighty says,

• “Whoever works righteousness—whether male or female—while he (or she) is a true believer, verily, we will give him (or her) a good life.” (Holy Quran 16:97)

• “Pleasant dwellings in (Eden) Paradise; that is, the great success.” (Holy Quran 61:12)

  
  

But whoever lives in this world like animals does not know his Lord or his goal and fate, and his only aim is to eat, drink, and sleep. What then is the difference between him and other animals? He is even more prone to error than animals.

Allah says, “And surely, We have created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have hearts that don't understand, eyes that don't see, and ears that don't hear the truth. They are like cattle; indeed, they are even more astray than that; those individuals are the heedless ones. (Holy Quran 7:179)

The Good Lord also says, “Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like cattle—nay, they are even further astray from the path.” (Holy Quran 25:44)

The disbeliever will abide forever in the torment. This is because he moves from one torment to another. He goes out of this world—after he has tasted all its agonies and afflictions—to the Hereafter.

In the first stage of the Hereafter, the angels of death come upon him, and before them come the angels of torment, who will give him his deserved punishment. Allah Almighty says, “And if you could see when the angels take away the souls of those who disbelieve (at death), they smite their faces and their backs.” (Holy Quran 8:50)

Then, his soul departs, and when he is put in the grave, he meets a greater torment. Allah Almighty says about the people of Pharaoh, “They are exposed to Fire, morning and afternoon, and on the Day when the Hour will be established, (it will be said to the angels): Make Pharaoh and his people enter the severest torment.” (Holy Quran 40:46)

On the Day of Resurrection, when the creatures are raised and the deeds are exposed, the disbeliever will see that Allah has accurately enumerated all his deeds in that book about which God Almighty says, “And the book of record will be placed, and you will see the sinners (disbelievers) fearful of that which is (recorded) therein. They will say, "Woe to us!" What sort of book is this that leaves neither a small thing nor a big thing but has recorded it with numbers!” (Holy Quran 18:49)

Here, the disbeliever will wish to be dust. Allah Almighty says, “The Day when man will see that (the deeds) which his hands have sent forth, and the disbeliever will say, ‘Woe to me! Would that I were dust.” (Holy Quran 78:40)

Man will wish he owned everything on earth to ransom himself from that day's torment. “And those who did wrong; if they had all that is in the earth and therewith as much again, they verily would offer it to ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection from the evil torment.” (Holy Quran 39:47)

Allah Almighty furthermore says, “The sinner would desire to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by his children and his wife and his brother and his kindred who sheltered him, and all that are in the earth, so that it might save him.” (Holy Quran 70:11-14)

That abode is one of recompense and not of wishful thinking. A person must, therefore, receive a reward for their actions; if the actions are good, they receive a positive reward, and if they are evil, they face punishment.

Conclusion

The worst punishment that a disbeliever may face on the Day of Resurrection is that of Hellfire, in which Allah Almighty has provided different kinds of retribution for its dwellers so that they can taste the torment of their deeds.

Allah Almighty says, “This is the Hell which the sinners (disbelievers) deny. They will go between it and the fierce boiling water.” (Holy Quran 55:43-44)

God Almighty also informs us of the garments of the dwellers of Hell: “As for those who disbelieved, garments of fire will be cut out for them, and boiling water will be poured down over their heads. With it will melt (or vanish away) what is within their bellies as well as their skins; and for them are hooked rods of iron.” (Holy Quran 22:19-21)