الآخرة
The Hour and the accounting
Why does the Makkan Qurʾān return to the Day of Judgement so often?
Death is a test set up on purpose, and the accounting is what makes the test mean anything. Passages here argue the Hour, describe the reckoning, or answer the denier's objection to it.
“He who created death and life to test you as to which of you is best in deed.”Qurʾān 67:2
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Closely related threads
Ordered by how much ground they share with this one. Subjects met from two directions are held far better than subjects met twice from the same direction.
One Lord, one dominion
التوحيدThe same āyah pair opens al-Mulk: the hand that holds the dominion is the hand that made death first. Sovereignty is what makes the accounting possible.
Patience while the answer is delayed
الصبرWhat does the Qurʾān say to someone waiting on an answer that has not come?
The four trials
الفتنA trial without a reckoning is meaningless. The four trials of al-Kahf all end at the same accounting al-Mulk describes.
Refuge, protection and the unseen harm
الاستعاذةThe harm sought refuge from is unseen, and so is the accounting — both ask the believer to act on what cannot be observed.
The signs you already walk on
الآيات الكونيةThe created order is the standing argument for the second creation: the one who began it can repeat it.
Provision, wealth and the tongue that forgets
الرزقWhere does what I have come from, and what does it ask of me?