If Allah -azwj was to Pause you on the Day of Judgement...

If Allah -azwj was to Pause you on the Day of Judgement until He -azwj Questions you about every food that you have eaten and every drink you have drunk, it would be a very lengthy pause for you’.

قال: فما النعيم جعلت فداك؟ قال: «النعيم نحن الذين أنقذ [الله‏] الناس بنا من الضلالة و بصرهم بنا من العمى، و علمهم بنا من الجهل He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws , so what are the bounties?’ He -asws said: ‘We -asws are the bounties which Allah -azwj has Saved the people with, by us -asws from the misguidance, and Made them to see by us -asws from their blindness, and Taught them by us -asws from their ignorance’.

قال: جعلت فداك، فكيف كان القرآن جديدا أبدا؟ قال: «لأنه لم يجعل لزمان دون زمان فتخلقه الأيام، و لو كان كذلك لفني القرآن قبل فناء العالم». أي تبليه He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws , so how can the Quran be fresh forever?’ He -asws said: ‘Because there will never come an era where its Verses are not valid, and had it been that, the Quran would ceased to be (dead) before the world ceases to be’.

[26] Appendix: 47- وَ مِنْ كَلَامِهِ ع‏ قاله بعد تلاوته‏ أَلْهاكُمُ التَّكاثُرُ حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقابِرَ And from his -asws speech, having said it after reciting: The augmentation diverts you [102:1] Until you visit the graves [102:2] : – يَا لَهُ مَرَاماً مَا أَبْعَدَهُ وَ زَوْراً مَا أَغْفَلَهُ‏ وَ خَطَراً مَا أَفْظَعَهُ لَقَدِ اسْتَخْلَوْا مِنْهُمْ أَيَّ مُدَّكِرٍ وَ تَنَاوَشُوهُمْ‏ مِنْ مَكانٍ بَعِيدٍ ‘Oh the wishing for it, how distant it is, and visitors, how heedless they are of it, and danger, how horrible it is.

They are devoid from them of whichever lesson there is to take and instead took them from remote places.

أَ فَبِمَصَارِعِ آبَائِهِمْ يَفْخَرُونَ أَمْ بِعَدِيدِ الْهَلْكَى يَتَكَاثَرُونَ يَرْتَجِعُونَ مِنْهُمْ أَجْسَاداً خَوَتْ‏ وَ حَرَكَاتٍ سَكَنَتْ وَ لَأَنْ يَكُونُوا عِبَراً أَحَقُّ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونُوا مُفْتَخَراً وَ لَأَنْ يَهْبِطُوا بِهِمْ جَنَابَ ذِلَّةٍ أَحْجَى‏ مِنْ أَنْ يَقُومُوا بِهِمْ مَقَامَ عِزَّةٍ Are they priding with the graves of their forefathers of with the number of the deceased they are boasting from the bodies?

The bodies are decayed, and the movements have become still, and because they are more rightful of being a lesson than from being a priding, and because it is more of an argument with a side of disgrace of descending with than for a place of honour to stand with them.

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