سورة الأنبياء

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Amr ibn Shayba said: I said to Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): "May I be made your ransom, on the Day of Resurrection where will the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family), the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) and his Shia be?" He (peace be upon him) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family), Ali (peace be upon him) and their Shia will be upon hills of pure musk, upon pulpits of light, and at that time the people will be grief-stricken and terrified, but they will not be afflicted with any grief or terror." Then he recited this verse: "Whoever brings a good deed shall have a reward better than it, and they shall be secure from the terror of that day." (Naml/89). By Allah, what is meant by the good deed in this verse is the wilayah of Ali (peace be upon him). Then he continued: لَا یَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ وَ تَتَلَقَّاهُمُ الْملَائِکَةُ هَذَا یَوْمُکُمُ الَّذِی کُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ [The great fearful event shall not grieve them, and the angels shall meet them: This is your day which you were promised].

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): When Allah gathers all the people together on the Day of Resurrection... whenever the Day of Resurrection comes, a caller from the heavens will cry out: "O assembly of people! Lower your eyes so that the daughter of Allah's beloved may pass to her dwelling." When Fatimah (peace be upon her), my daughter, passes by, she will be wearing green garments, and seventy thousand Hur al-Ayn will surround her and escort her. When they reach her dwelling, they will see her son Hasan (peace be upon him) standing, and her other son [Husayn (peace be upon him)] lying with his head severed from his body. Fatimah (peace be upon her) will say to Hasan (peace be upon him): "Who is this?" Hasan (peace be upon him) will say: "This is my brother, whom the ummah of your father killed and severed his head from his body." At that moment, a call comes from Allah: "O daughter of the beloved of Allah! Today I have shown you what your father's ummah did to your son. O Fatimah (peace be upon her), I have set for you, in return for this affliction, a reward: I will not attend to the reckoning of people's deeds until you enter Paradise, and you bring your children along with your Shia, and those who have shown love toward you — them too I will admit into Paradise, and only afterward will I attend to the reckoning of the people." At that moment, Fatimah (peace be upon her), her children, her Shia, and those who have shown love toward her will enter Paradise. And this is the meaning of the noble verse: لا یَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ [The great fearful event shall not grieve them] — meaning the terror of the Day of Resurrection.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): Abu Hamzah al-Thumali narrated from Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), regarding the words of Allah: لا یَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ [The great fearful event shall not grieve them]..., said: "A she-camel will be given [to him] and it will be said: 'Go wherever you wish on the Day of Resurrection.' So if he wishes, he stands at the [station of] reckoning; if he wishes, he stands at the edge of Hell; and if he wishes, he enters Paradise. The keeper of the Fire will say: 'O man! Who are you? Are you a prophet or a legatee?' He will say: 'I am one of the followers of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and his Ahl al-Bayt.' He will say: 'Then that [station] is yours.'"

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): O Ali (peace be upon him)! The verse لا یَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ [The great fearful event shall not grieve them] was revealed concerning you. You and your Shia will be sought at the station [of Resurrection], while you are in Paradise enjoying abundant blessings.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): O Ali, you and your Shia will be at the Hawd al-Kawthar; you will give drink to whomever you love and hold back whomever you dislike. On the Day of the Great Terror (the Day of Resurrection), you will be safe in the shade of the Throne. People will be terrified, but you will not be terrified. People will grieve, but you will not grieve. This verse has been revealed concerning you: إِنَّ الَّذِینَ سَبَقَتْ لَهُمْ مِنَّا الحُسْنی أُولئِکَ عَنْها مُبْعَدُونَ لایَسْمَعُونَ حَسِیسَها وَ هُمْ فِی مَا اشْتَهَتْ أَنْفُسُهُمْ خالِدُونَ لایَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ وَ تَتَلَقّاهُمُ المَلائِکَةُ هذا یَوْمُکُمُ الَّذِی کُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ [Indeed, those for whom the best [reward] has already been decreed from Us — they are removed far from it. They will not hear its slightest sound, and they will abide eternally in what their souls desire. The great fearful event shall not grieve them, and the angels shall meet them: This is your day which you were promised].

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Whoever utters the word of tawhid (divine oneness) with ikhlas (sincerity) has freed himself from shirk (polytheism), and whoever departs from the world without associating any partner with Allah enters Paradise. Then he recited this noble verse: Allah does not forgive [ever] that partners be associated with Him, but forgives what is less than that for whomever He [wills and deems worthy] (Nisa/48). These are your Shia and those who love you. Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah! Is this for my Shia?" He said: "Yes, by my Lord, your Shia — on the Day of Resurrection, when they rise from their graves, they will say: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، عَلِیُّ‌بْنُ‌أَبِی‌طَالِبٍ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ [There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, Ali ibn Abi Talib is the proof of Allah]. At that time, green garments from Paradise and crowns with horses will be brought for them, and they will put on the garments, place the crowns on their heads, mount the horses, and fly into Paradise; لا یَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ وَ تَتَلَقَّاهُمُ الملائکة هذا یَوْمُکُمُ الَّذِی کُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ [The great fearful event shall not grieve them, and the angels shall meet them: This is your day which you were promised]."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Abu Khalid al-Kabuli said: It has been narrated from Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) in a hadith that he said: "By Allah, O Aba Khalid! No servant loves us and follows us until Allah purifies his heart, and Allah does not purify the heart of any servant until he submits to us and makes peace with us; so when he makes peace with us, Allah saves him from the severe reckoning and secures him from the great terror of the Day of Resurrection."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): On the Day of Resurrection there are three groups who will be upon heaped mounds of musk; لا یَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَکْبَرُ [The great fearful event shall not grieve them] and they will not be troubled by the reckoning: a man who recites the Quran for the sake of Allah's pleasure, then leads a group [in prayer] for the sake of Allah's pleasure; a man who calls the adhan for the sake of Allah's pleasure; and a [servant who is a] slave who fulfils the right of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and the right of his masters.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever is buried in the Haram — whether from the righteous people or from the wicked — will be safe from the great terror of the gathering.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): When the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) returned from Tabuk to Medina, Amr ibn Ma'dikarib (who was one of the great men of the Arabs, their warriors and poets) came to him, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said to him: "O Amr! Accept Islam, so that Allah may keep you safe from the great fear." He said: "O Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family)! What is the great fear? I do not fear anything." He said: "O Amr, it is not as you suppose and imagine. A cry will be raised over the people such that no dead one will remain except that he is brought back to life, and no living one will remain except that he dies, except whom Allah wills. Then another cry will be raised over them, so that everyone who has died will be brought back to life, and they will all line up [in the plain of resurrection], the sky will split open, the earth will crumble, the mountains will collapse, the fire will blaze and cast sparks the size of mountains, at which moment no living being will remain except that its heart is torn from its place, it will remember its sins, and it will be preoccupied with itself, except whom Allah wills. So O Amr! From where would you know [the meaning of this great fear]?" Amr said: "I am hearing an immense matter," and [with these very words] he became a Muslim and believed in Allah and His Messenger, and a group of his tribe also believed with him, and they returned to their people.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever clothes his brother with clothing for summer or winter, it becomes a right upon Allah that He clothe him from the garments of Paradise, ease upon him the pangs of death, expand his grave for him, and that when he rises from his grave, he meets the angels while they give him glad tidings. And this is [the meaning of] the verse: وَ تَتَلَقَّاهُمُ الْمَلَائِکَةُ هَذَا یَوْمُکُمُ الَّذِی کُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ [And the angels shall meet them: This is your day which you were promised].

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Mufaddal said: Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: ... The Sayyid Hasani himself, and then the rest of his army, pledge allegiance to him (Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his noble relief), except for forty thousand who carry the Qurans with them and are known as the Zaydiyya, who refuse to pledge allegiance. They say, "This affair is nothing but a mighty sorcery," and with this word the two armies fall upon one another. Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) approaches the Zaydi faction and admonishes them for three days, calling them to calm and to accept him, but they only increase in rebellion and their own punishment. Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) then, of necessity, issues the order for their killing and they are all put to the sword. Then Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) says to his companions, "Do not take their Qurans; leave them so that they may be a cause of regret to them, for they altered and changed it and did not act by what was in it." Mufaddal said, "My master! What does Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) do after that?" He said, "He sends an army to Damascus to arrest the Sufyani; they seize him and cut his head off on a rock. Then Husayn (peace be upon him) appears with twelve thousand siddiqs (truthful ones) and the seventy-two men who were among his companions at Karbala and were martyred with him. Oh, what a blessed radiant return! Then the Siddiq al-Akbar (the greatest truthful one), Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him) appears, and a canopy resting on four pillars is set up for him at Najaf. One pillar of it is at Najaf, one pillar at the Hijr of Ismail (peace be upon him), one pillar at Safa, and one pillar in the land of Madina. It is as though I see its lamps shining like the lights of the sun and the moon in the heavens and on the earth. At that time the inner state of every person is laid bare, and nursing women, from terror, abandon their infants. Then the great master, Muhammad the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) .... O Mufaddal! It is as though I see us, the Imams, gathered at that time before the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), complaining to him (peace be upon him and his family) of what the Umma did to us after him, and we say the Umma denied us... Then Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her) comes forward and [complains] of the oppression of the first and the second and their usurping Fadak, her own property... Then Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) [complains of] the tremendous trials he underwent after the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family)... Then Imam Husayn (peace be upon him), with a body drenched in blood, he and his companions who were slain with him, stands before the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). When the Prophet looks upon him he weeps bitterly. At his weeping the dwellers of the heavens and the earth also weep. Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her) too raises a heart-rending cry from a breast filled with anguish. From her lamentation, wailing, weeping and crying, the earth and the people of the earth are shaken. Then Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) and Imam Hasan (peace be upon him) stand on the right of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), and Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her) on his left. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) takes him (Husayn) to his breast and says, 'Ya Husayn (peace be upon him), may I be your ransom! May your eyes be brightened and may my eyes also be brightened in you.' Then Hamza, Sayyid al-Shuhada, the uncle of the Prophet (may Allah have mercy on him), stands on the right of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), and on his left stands Ja'far ibn Abi Talib al-Tayyar (may Allah have mercy on him). Suddenly Khadija al-Kubra (may Allah have mercy on her) and Fatima bint Asad (may Allah have mercy on her), the mother of Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him), come to the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), lamenting, carrying Muhassin, the miscarried child of Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her), in their hands. And his mother Fatima (peace be upon her) recites this verse of the Quran: 'On the day when every soul shall find present what it has done of good, and it shall wish that between it and what it has done of evil there were a long distance.' (Al Imran/30)." Mufaddal said, "At this Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) wept so that his blessed beard was drenched with the flood of tears!" Then he said, "May the eye that does not weep at this account not be brightened!" Mufaddal too wept a great deal.