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Listen to Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, as he describes this
great scene and this
great meeting between the saints of God
and God Almighty, so that they may see the face of the Great, the Majestic, the
Glorious. Listen and imagine yourself
with them, may God make me and you
among them. Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, says:
If you ask about the Day of
Resurrection and the visit of the Mighty, the Praiseworthy,
and seeing the face of
God, who is free from representation
and likeness, as has been transmitted from the Truthful, the Trusted,
in which he says that the caller
calls out, “
O people of Paradise, your Lord, Blessed and Exalted be He,
invites you to
visit Him.”
They say, “We hear
and obey,” and they rise up to the
visit
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hastening. Then the Compellers hasten
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until they reach the lush valley that had been
set up for them, and
they gathered
there, and the caller did not leave out
any of them, the Lord, the Exalted, commanded His throne to be
erected
there. Then pulpits of light were erected for them, and pulpits of
pearls, and pulpits of fine
gold, and pulpits of silver, and the lowest of them sat—far be it from them that there be a lowly person
among them—on the
dunes of musk until their seats were settled and they were
reassured by them. Their
places The caller calls out, “
O people of
Paradise, you have an appointment with Allah, an
appointment that He wants to fulfill.”
They say, “What! Has He not made
our faces white and
our scales heavy?” So no one entered Paradise and was removed from the
Fire? While they are like that, a
light shines for them, Paradise shines for him. They raise their heads and behold, the
Almighty, the
Majestic, the Glorious,
has shone upon them from above them and said, “O people of Paradise.” The Almighty, the Majestic, has looked down upon them from above them and
said, “
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O people of Paradise, peace be upon you.
O
people of Paradise, peace be upon you.” The
Lord appears to them, laughing, glory be to Him, the Most High.
Then He calls out to them,
then He
calls out to them, “Where are My
servants? Where are My servants who obeyed Me in secret and did not see Me? Where are My servants who
obeyed Me in secret and did
not
see Me? This is the Day of More.” [
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This is the Day of
More. Then
they gather around one word, “We are satisfied with an obligation
imposed upon
us. Are we satisfied with an obligation
imposed upon us?” Then
Allah, glory be to Him, says, “O
people of Paradise, peace be upon you.”
Paradise, if I were not pleased with you, you would not have been my
Paradise. This is the Day of More, so
ask. They will
gather around each
one, “Show us your face so that we may look at it. Show us your face so that we may look at it. Show us your face so that we may look at it.” Then the
Lord, the
Majestic and Sublime, will remove the veils for them and will appear to
them, and they will be filled with His
light, such that had it not been that Allah, the Most High,
decreed that they would not burn, they would not have
burned. No one will remain in that assembly except that his
Lord will be present with him,
until he
says, “O so-and-so, do you
remember the day you did such-and-such?” O so-and-so, do you remember the day you did such-and-
such?” He will remind him
of some of his
faults in
this world, and he will say, “O Lord, have You not forgiven me?” He will say, “
Yes, yes, by
forgiveness I have reached this station of yours.”