Divine Surveillance

We created man. We know the promptings of his soul, and are closer to him than (his) jugular vein. When the two Keepers receive (him), the one seated on his right, the other on his left, each word he utters shall be noted down by a vigilant guardian.

And when the agony of death justly overtakes him, they will say: ‘This is the fate you have striven to avoid.’ And the Trumpet shall be sounded. Such is the threatened day.

(Then a voice will cry): ‘Cast into Hell every hardened unbeliever, every opponent of good works, and every doubting transgressor who has set up another god besides God. Hurl him into the terrible doom.’

His companion will say: ‘Lord, I did not mislead him. He had already gone far astray.’

God will say: ‘Do not dispute in My presence. I gave you warning beforehand. My word cannot be changed, nor am I unjust to My servants’.

(The Quran 50:16-29)

The study of the world tells us that there exists a faultless system of “recording”. Man’s thoughts are being imprinted on his mental canvas forever. Each word man utters persists permanently in the form of airwaves. Human action is so accurately preserved in the external world through heat waves that it can be re-enacted at any moment. All these are known realities. Moreover, these realities make understandable this statement of the Quran that human intentions, sayings and doings, all are in the knowledge of the Creator. Everything related to man is being recorded by angels in their invisible registers.

These verses vividly depict the scene of life after death and Qiyamah (Doomsday). We are told what the fate of those will be who had become insolent on finding themselves free in this world. This depiction is so clear that it needs no further illustration.