سورة الإسراء

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): The servant is made to remember everything he has done and everything that was written against him, as though he has done it at that very moment. That is why they say: "يا وَیْلَتَنا ما لِهذَا الْکِتابِ لا یُغادِرُ صَغِیرَةً وَ لا کَبِیرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصاها [Woe to us! What kind of book is this that leaves out nothing small or great but has counted it?] (al-Kahf/49)."

The Messenger (peace be upon him and his family): Imam Rida (peace be upon him) said: ... When the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) reproached and rebuked them in this manner, a group of them came to the Prophet ... [The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) was asked]: 'O Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family)! Tell us, how many angels does each servant have?' He said: 'Every servant has two angels; one on the right side and the other on the left side. The angel on the right writes down the good deeds, and the angel on the left records the wrongdoings.' He said: 'Where do the angels sit, and what is their pen, and what is their inkwell, and what is their tablet?' He said: 'Their place is upon his two shoulders, their pen is his tongue, their inkwell is his throat, their ink is his saliva, and their tablet is his heart, upon which they write his deeds until the day of his death; اقْرَأْ کِتابَکَ کَفی بِنَفْسِکَ الْیَوْمَ عَلَیْکَ حَسِیباً [Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day].'

The Messenger (peace be upon him and his family): Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari stood up and said to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): '... What is the wisdom in that the adhan has been prescribed for the prayer, but for the other acts of worship no adhan or supplication has been prescribed?' The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: 'Because the prayer resembles the events of the Day of Resurrection, for the adhan is like the first blowing into the trumpet [by Israfil] for the death of all creatures, and the recitation in the prayer resembles the reading of the records of deeds in the presence of the Lord of the worlds, as Allah has said: اقْرَأْ کِتابَکَ کَفی بِنَفْسِکَ الْیَوْمَ عَلَیْکَ حَسِیبا [Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day].'

The Messenger (peace be upon him and his family): The records of the deeds of all human beings are beneath the divine Throne. On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will send a wind. The wind will carry the records to the left and to the right. The first sentence written in them is: اقْرَأْ کَتَابَکَ کَفَی بِنَفْسِکَ الْیَوْمَ عَلَیْکَ حَسِیبًا [Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day].