For example: What age will we be when we are raised on the Day of Judgment?

For example: What age will we be when we are raised on the Day of Judgment? Will we be raised with the same form that we have now? Is it just that one's old body be punished for a sin that one committed in one’s youth? The answers to the first questions are as follows: Believers Will Enter Heaven With Young Bodies The Day of Judgment, in itself, is intellectually proved, but the events that will happen on the Day of Judgment remain unknown.

The only way to understand what will happen is through revelation and traditions from the (a). We have received traditions that state that believers will enter heaven at a young age, men at 32 and women at 16. The believers will also stay that age forever because one does not age in the next world. The answer to the second question, the question about what form we will be raised with, must also be answered through revelation.

People Will Be Raised According To Their Nature The following tradition is related from the Messenger of Allah in the book Tafsīr al-Qummī under the verse, “You will come forth in crowds on the day that the trumpet is blown.” ^4 People asked the Prophet (S) if this verse refers to the Muslims or the unbelievers and the Prophet (S) answered: “It is in reference to the Muslims.

They will be raised in ten groups, some will look like monkeys, some like pigs, some will be upside down, some will be blind, some will have puss falling off of their tongue…”[^5]. Another group will be raised with faces that are gleaming more than a full moon; they will be like angels leading all of the other groups.

He (S) said regarding the women of heaven: “The relationship between the heavenly women and the hur al-‛ayn is like the relationship between the hur al-‛ayn and other women.”[^6] As a summary, everyone will be raised according to their nature. One will be raised up more beautiful than the angels if he obtained these characteristics on earth, but, if he was like a predator he will be raised up in such a condition that pigs will look beautiful next to him.

He will hate his appearance so much that he will wish to be thrown into hell so that others will not see him in this state. How bad it is that hell will be his place of refuge! We will now answer the third question which was: is it just for one's old body to be punished for a sin that one committed while in one’s youth? The Spirit Has Pleasure Or Pain The answer should be clear to those who paid attention to what I have said.