What is the Day of Judgment in Islam?
The Qur'an returns to the Day of Judgment on nearly every page. The classical tradition's reconstruction of its sequence — the trumpet, the gathering, the reckoning, the scale, the ṣirāṭ.
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The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Imam al-Ghazali — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
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"Whoever's good deeds outweigh his bad deeds on the Day of Judgment, that is the one who enters Paradise without reckoning."
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"Hadith, Allah will allow Adam to intercede on the Day of Judgment for some of His descendants numbering 100 million, 10 million,"
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"And whoever's good deeds and bad deeds are equal, that is the one who will have an easy reckoning and then enter Paradise."
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