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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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regarding the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted: "The Day their tongues, their hands, and their feet will testify against them as to what they used to do"?

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The Shaykh : Yes, read the verse. The sealing of the mouths means that they will not deny it, and this does not contradict the fact that the tongues will testify. As for what is intended by "their intent," it is understood, or it can be said that the Day of Resurrection consists of various stations, because the Day of Resurrection lasts fifty thousand years; sometimes it is like this and sometimes like that. Just as Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) reconciled this with the statement of Allah the Exalted:
That Day, those who disbelieved and disobeyed the Messenger will wish they could be covered by the earth. And they will not conceal from Allah a [single] statement. يَوْمَئِذٍ يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَعَصَوُا الرَّسُولَ لَوْ تُسَوَّى بِهِمُ الأَرْضُ وَلا يَكْتُمُونَ اللَّهَ حَدِيثًا
[Surat al-Nisa: 42], meaning everything they conceal, and in another verse he said:
Then there will be no [excuse upon] examination except they will say, "By Allah, our Lord, we were not those who associated." ثُمَّ لَمْ تَكُنْ فِتْنَتُهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ قَالُوا وَاللَّهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ
[Surat al-An'am: 23], and this is denial, is it not? This is denial. So how do we reconcile the two verses? We say that the Day of Resurrection consists of various stations. Likewise, some scholars reconciled the statement of Allah the Exalted:
And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed. ونحشر المجرمين يومئذ زرقا
[Taha 20:102]
and the statement of Allah the Exalted:
On the Day [some] faces will turn white and [some] faces will turn black يوم تبيض وجوه وتسود وجوه
[Ali 'Imran 3:106]
; here it is blackness and there it is bluishness. Some said that this is considered in terms of the stations of the Day of Resurrection. Some said that the bluishness is in the eyes and the blackness is in the faces. Some said that people differ, with the disbelievers among them being bluish and some being black. In any case, my intention is that the scholars of knowledge (may Allah have mercy on them) resorted to reconciling the verses that appear to contradict each other regarding the Day of Resurrection, because the Day of Resurrection is not a single hour in which the verses would contradict each other. The Day of Resurrection is fifty thousand years, and conditions change within it. Yes.
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