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“And to Allah belongs the Unseen of the heavens and the earth; and the matter of the Hour (of Doom) is but as a twinkling of the eye, or it is nearer still. Verily Allah is All-powerful over everything.” The Qur’anic term /qayb/ (unseen) when facing intuition, is a relative matter. That is, something may be invisible to someone while the same thing may be present and visible to someone else.

The Arabic phrase /’amr-us-s a‘ah/ (the matter of the Hour) signifies the advent of the resurrection day which is an important example of /qayb/, the ‘invisible world’, and which is one of the blessings of Allah when the timing of which has been kept secret from us.

As we have frequently seen, the Qur’an usually mixes the issues concerning monotheism with those relating to paganism, resurrection day, and the great court in Hereafter, here, after our discussion in passing about monotheism and polytheism, it touches upon the issue of resurrection and answering a part of the pagans’ objections, who said: the dust particles of us scatter all over the places, who will be aware of their location to reassemble them, so that to be able to evaluate their record, it implies at first: It is exclusive to Allah the unseen and the invisible world of the skies and the earth.

And he knows them all. The verse says: “And to Allah belongs the Unseen of the heavens and the earth…” Then, it adds: “…and the matter of the Hour (of Doom) is but as a twinkling of the eye or it is nearer still…” These two sentences are self-explanatory and live allusions to the infinite Divine Power (s.w.t.), especially in such areas as of resurrection and the rising from the dead of men.