Fatwa

  1. Fatwa
  2. Islamic Creed
  3. Belief in the Hereafter
  4. Benefits of belief in the Hereafter

Disbelievers will be punished on Resurrection Day
Fatwa No: 21563

Question

What will be the state of the disbelievers on the Day of Resurrection?

Answer

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alyhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

 

Allaah The Almighty describes the state of the disbelievers on the Day of Resurrection in many verses in His Book (i.e. The Quran). Some of these verses describe their resurrection. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening. Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.} [Quran 70:43-44]. Allaah The Almighty tells us that they will emerge very rapidly from their graves as if they will be rushing towards something that would bring them joy. However, that Day they will not rush joyfully or in pride; rather they will be humiliated and looking down. Allaah The Almighty also Says (what means):

{So leave them, [O Muhammad]. The Day the Caller calls to something forbidding, their eyes humbled, they will emerge from the graves as if they were locusts spreading, racing ahead toward the Caller. The disbelievers will say, "This is a difficult Day.”} [Quran 54:6-8]
{And the Horn will be blown; and at once from the graves to their Lord they will hasten. They will say, "O woe to us! Who has raised us up from our sleeping place?" [The reply will be], "This is what the Most Merciful had promised, and the messengers told the truth."} [Quran 36:51-52]
{And warn them, [O Muhammad], of the Approaching Day, when hearts are at the throats, filled [with distress]. For the wrongdoers there will be no devoted friend and no intercessor [who is] obeyed.} [Quran 40:18]
{[It will be] on the Day the earth will be replaced by another earth, and the heavens [as well], and all creatures will come out before Allaah, the One, the Prevailing. And you will see the criminals that Day bound together in shackles, their garments of liquid pitch and their faces covered by the Fire.} [Quran 14: 48-50]

On that Day they will wish that Allaah The Almighty would destroy them and turn them into dust. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means):

{That Day, those who disbelieved and disobeyed the Messenger will wish they could be covered by the earth. And they will not conceal from Allaah a [single] statement.} [Quran 4:42]
{On the Day when a man will observe what his hands have put forth and the disbeliever will say, "Oh, I wish that I were dust!"} [Quran78: 40]

On the authority of Anas ibn Maalik the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said that the disbeliever will be gathered (walking) on his face on the Day of Resurrection. [Al-Bukhari]

There are a lot of verses that mention their state in Hell. Anyone who reads the Book of Allaah The Almighty will find a detailed answer. 

Allaah Knows best.

Related Fatwa