Everything is Being Recorded
Whatever a person does or says or even thinks, is all being recorded at every moment. All of a person’s deeds in this world will be presented in the court of God.
Chapter 99 of the Quran states: “When the earth is shaken with its violent shaking, when the earth shakes off her burdens, when man asks, ‘What is happening to her?’ On that Day it will narrate its account, for your Lord has so directed it. On that Day people will come forward in separate groups to be shown their deeds: whoever has done the smallest particle of good will see it; while whoever has done the smallest particle of evil will see it.” (99:1-8)
The earthquake on Doomsday will be the announcement of the end of the testing period for human beings. This would mean that the freedom which was theirs on account of their being on trial, has now been snatched away from them. Now the time has come when human beings will be recompensed for their deeds. Today, God’s world is silent, but when conditions change, everything found here will start talking. The inventions of the present day have proved that lifeless or inanimate things also have the capacity to ‘talk.’ A performance in a studio is fully reproduced by a video film and records. Similarly, the present world is, so to say, a big ‘studio’ of God. Whatever a person does or says or even thinks, is all being recorded at every moment. And when the time comes, this world will repeat everybody’s story in such a way that not a thing, great or small, will be left out.
To keep one’s behaviour upright in this world only one thing is enough: that a person has the firm belief that he is being watched by God at every moment. All of his deeds in this world will be presented in the court of God. Be they big or small, whether they have been done openly or in hiding, everything will be disclosed there.
When a person is fully convinced of this reality, even before the shaking of the earth, he himself will be shaken. Before the earthquake of Doomsday, he will experience an earthquake in his own inner self which will totally transform him. Subsequently, he will become his own keeper. Instead of living a free, permissive life, he will lead a life which has restrictions. He will no longer use his power freely, but at the command of God.
