The Holy Quran has the following
verses in this regard: "When the heavens cleave
asunder, And when the stars disperse,
"... When the sun is folded,
And when the stars darken, And when the mountains are removed (as
scattered dust)." (At-Takwir, 1-3)
In the Gospel attributed to Mark,
we see the following verse in this regard : "... The sun will be darkened
and the moon will not shed her light, the stars will be falling from heaven
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken." (Mark 13:24-27)
The Acts of the Apostles too has
the following verse in the same regard:
"... The sun will be turned
to darkness and the moon to blood before that great and conspicuous day of the Lord arrives." (2:20)
The Angels' Role in the Day of
Judgement
The Quran includes the following
verses in this regard:
"And cometh (the command of)
thy Lord, with the angels in ranges arrayed." (Al-Fajr, 22)
" And thou shalt see the
angels circling around the ‘Arsh (The Throne of
The following verses from the
Gospel are in the same regard: "... And then shall He send
out the angels and gather His chosen from the four winds, from the end of the
earth to the end of heaven. "(Mark 13:27)
"... When the Son of Man
comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will be seated on the
throne of His glory, and all nations will be gathered before Him." (Matt.
25:31-32)
The following two verses from the
Holy Quran are in this ergard:"... And with Him is the
knowledge of the Hour (of Reckoning, and unto Him shall ye all be
returned." (Az-Zukhruf, 85)
" Ask thee the people about
the Hour (of Judgment). Say thou: ‘The knowledge of it is only with
God." (Al-Ahzab, 63)
And the Gospel includes the
following verse in the same regard: "... But about the exact
date and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
but only the Father. Be on guard;
The Quranic verses in this regard
are the following two verses: "The Day when the Trumpet
shall be blown, and ye shall come forth in (huge) groups." (An-Naba,
18)
"... And is blown the
Trumpet, when lo! from the grave unto their Lord they (all) hasten." (Yasin, 51)
The Gospel attributed to John has
the following verse in this regard: "... for the time is coming
when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come out, those
who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have
practiced evil to the resurrection of condemnation." (John 5:
27-29)
The First Episle of Paul to the
Corinthians includes a verse with the same meaning as follows:
"... in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet call. For the trumpet will sound
and the dead will be raised imperishable ... ." (15:52)
The following verse from the
Second General Epistle of Peter is in this regard: "But the day of the Lord
will come like a thief. Then with a tremendous roar the heavens will pass away,
the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works in it
will be burned up." (3:10-11)
The sample Quranic verse in this
regard is as follows:" And the day when arriveth
the Hour (of Judgment), on that day shall (they) be separated from one
another. And as to those who believed and did good deeds, they shall be in
the garden, made happy. And as to those who disbelieved and belied Our
signs and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to
the chastisement." (Ar-Room, 14-16)
The following verse from the Gospel
has the same meaning: " When the Son of Man comes
in His Glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will be seated on the
throne of His Glory, and all nations will be gathered before Him. And He will
separate them from one another as a shepherd parts the sheep from the
goats." (Matt. 25:31-33)
The Holy Quran includes the
following verse in this regard: "And the People of Right
hand Oh! What (a happy state shall) the people of the Right hand (be in)! Amid
thornless lote-trees, And banana-trees (with fruits) piled one above
another, And shade spread out... And the People of the Left hand, Ah! What
(a wretched state shall) the people of the Left hand (be in)! In
scorching wind and scalding water, And in the
shadow of a black smoke."
(Al-Waqiah, 27-43)
The following verses are from the
Gospel in the same regard: "And He will separate them
from one another as a shepherd parts the sheep from the goats; and He
will place the sheep at His right and the goats at His left.
‘The king will then say to those at His right,
‘Come, My father’s blessed ones, inherit the kingdom that
has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;... Then
will He say to those at His left, ‘Begone
from Me, accursed ones, to the
everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels." (Matt.
25:32-41)
The following two verses from the
Quran are in this rehard: "Man shall e informed on
that day of whatsoever he put before and whatsoever he put
behind!" (Al-Qiyamat, 13)
" On that day shall come out
people (from their graves) in (scattered) groups, to be shown their own
deeds. Then he who hath done an atom-weight of good shall see it. And he who
hath done an atom-weight of evil
shall see it." (Al-Zilzal,
6-8)
The Gospel includes a verse in
this regard too, exactly with the same meaning.
The Quran includes the following
verse in this regard:" And they ask thee to
hasten on the chastisement and never doth God fail His promise; And verily,
there is a day with thy lord as a thousand years, of what ye reckon
(them)." (Al-Hajj, 47)
The Second General Epistle of
Peter has the same meaning verse as follows:
" At present, however, the
heavens and the earth are by the same word stored up for burning, and
reserved for the Day of Judgement and the destruction of godless people.
But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one
day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." (3:7-8)