How do we understand the word of God – more than fourteen hundred years ago – that (the Hour is near)?! ✍️Adel Asoum
Quranic and prophetic expressions varied in referring to the meaning of the approaching Hour until the Quran described it as being like the wink of an eye or closer, and that was fourteen centuries ago, and the Hour has not yet arrived!
How can we understand these noble texts and what are their implications?
At this point, I will point out a dangerous meaning that many Muslims may know on the surface, but I think most of them have not been able to reach the essence and depth of the idea, which will greatly affect the faith and behavior of the servant during this short life.
Summary of the idea:
When a person dies, he is only separated from resurrection, just as a person who sleeps at night is separated from waking up in the morning, until the Hour comes and he rises from his grave and is asked how long have you been dead in this world. He must not think that he has only spent a day or part of a day, as if he had died yesterday, and this is what we call (the isthmus period). This goes over him and everyone who died recently or thousands of years ago (to the same extent). This means that our great-grandfather, whom God died in the Stone Age, is one of us, who God died on October 13, 2025, when the Resurrection comes. When asked how long you stayed, we will say we stayed hours or a day at most, and this can be demonstrated by the deceased patient. He is injected with anesthesia or he loses consciousness when he wakes up. If we tell him he was unconscious for a long time, he won’t believe it. And look what (the cave people) said after sleeping for over three centuries. What did they say when asked when they woke up from sleep/clinical death? They said:
{We stayed for a day or part of a day}!
It is the same duration as the one whom God killed (one hundred years) and then resurrected thought. When asked, he replied: {I stayed for a day or part of a day}!
This is the same amount that the people of Mahshar will respond to thousands and thousands of years after their death:
{We stayed for a day or part of a day}
Now I invite you to contemplate the verses in this regard and read them from the previous perspective so that the idea becomes deeper and the feeling takes root more deeply in the consciousness.
God Almighty said:
{As if, on the day they saw him, they had only stayed an evening or a morning.} An-Nazi`at 46
And the Almighty said:
{…As if the day they see what is promised to them, they only stay for an hour in the day…} Al-Ahqaf 35
And the Almighty said:
{And on the day when He will gather them together as if they had only stayed an hour in the day, they will learn to know each other…} Yunus 45
And the Almighty said:
{And the Day when the Hour comes, the criminals will swear that they only stayed an hour. And this is how they were to be punished.} Al-Rum 55
Have you seen how God described the isthmus period and the time that passes for the dead?
The living among us imagines that the time interval between his death and his resurrection is very long, according to his conception of the earthly laws of time, which he knows of no other. He sees the Day of Resurrection as distant, even though in the other temporal dimension, with God Almighty, it is near.
God Almighty said:
{The angels and the spirit will ascend to Him on a day whose duration is fifty thousand years (4) So be patient with beautiful patience (5) Indeed, they see Him from afar (6) And we will see Him soon (7)} Al-Maaraj
This sense of the long term is what makes the wicked among us persist in their transgression and disobedience.
And the day when every soul sees present what it has done, good and evil, and when the period of what has been promised to it will be very near, then it will wish that there was a long period of time between it and itself, “the day of resurrection.”
Perhaps we can now better understand the meaning of this noble verse:
{O you who believe, fear God and let each soul consider what it has proposed for tomorrow. And fear God. Indeed, God is aware of what you do.} Al-Hashr 18
The Day of Resurrection is truly like tomorrow compared to today. For example, someone who died today, Monday October 13, 2025, will wake up at the hour of resurrection tomorrow (Tuesday) and will believe with certainty that he died yesterday, Monday, and swear to it:
{We know best what they are saying, when someone like them says, “If you only waited a day. »} Taha 104
We can now also understand the hadith of our Prophet, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace:
On the authority of Ibn Masoud, may God be pleased with him, the Prophet, prayers and peace of God be upon him, said: (Heaven is closer to one of you than the straps of his shoes, and hell is like that.) Narrated by Al-Bukhari.
There is nothing between the servant and Heaven or Hell except that he dies, and when the pangs of death actually come, his whole life shrinks before his eyes, as if he had remained in this world for only a short time, and the previous life becomes like the ghost from which he awoke and left behind him, and he found in his hands only the life which stretched before him without end.
And then he says:
{He said: “I would have liked to give my life”} Al-Fajr 24
As if the past life was not his life!
Someone might say that this detail suggests that there is no accounting in the grave (the isthmus period), because the accounting in the grave is established by legal evidence, and as long as there is an accounting, reward and punishment will follow, and God the Creator is the One who rules over our feelings and feelings during and after the isthmus. There is evidence from the Holy Quran, which tells us about the believing children of Israel who advised his people to believe, so they killed him:
{It was said: “Enter Paradise. » He said: “I would like my people to know (26) that my Lord has forgiven me and made me one of the honored ones (27)} Surah Yasin.
He was judged in his grave immediately after his death (before the Hour came), and God rewarded him and made his grave one of the gardens of Paradise, and the great judgment will be the Resurrection, as indicated in dozens of texts from Quranic verses and noble prophetic hadiths.
The other thing we can learn is that our whole life is worthless and the basic principle is life in the afterlife. Therefore, one who fights for the sake of God makes this world easier when he recites these noble verses from Surah Al Imran:
{And do not think that those who were killed in the cause of God are dead. Rather, they live with their Lord and are provided for. (169) Rejoice in what God has given them from His generosity. And they rejoice Over those who have not joined them behind them. There is no fear on them and they are not grieved. (170) They rejoice in a blessing and bounty from God, and may God not lose The reward of the believers (171)}.
Dozens of stories have been documented in Gaza, where while sleeping, family members saw their martyrs come to them and tell them good news about the situation they found themselves in, so their families made a concession to death out of desire for a happy eternal life. Here the Muslim embraces God’s justice when he sees the killing of Muslims in many countries and places when God, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, says (and He will take witnesses from among you), and also when He says:
{Combat is prescribed for you, although it is hated for you. And maybe you hate one thing and it’s good for you. And maybe you like one thing and it’s bad for you. And God knows And you do not know} Al-Baqarah 216.
After this cited article, if you feel that your view of the Hour has changed and you begin to feel that the Resurrection will occur within hours and not more than a day after your death; You understood what that meant and benefited from the position, thank God, even if you didn’t; I advise you to repeat the reading until the meaning creeps into your consciousness, so that you can taste and feel new dimensions of the truth of your existence.
I ask God to make our entire life obedient to Him and grant us a good end and the highest gardens of Paradise.
Say Amen
