On Doomsday

On Doomsday it will become apparent to people that the guidance provided by God through His messengers was so clear that nobody could have remained unaware of realities.

Chapter 6 of the Quran states: “Company of jinn and mankind! Did messengers not come from among you to recite My revelations to you, and warn you of the meeting of this Day?’ They will say, ‘We bear witness against ourselves.’ It was the life of this world that deceived them and so they will bear witness against themselves, that they rejected the truth. Your Lord would not destroy a community for its wrongdoing, so long as its people were still unaware.” (6:130-131)

When Satan deceives a person and wins him over to his side, he tries to fulfil his challenge to God which he made at the beginning of creation that he would make a large part of God’s creation fall a prey to his temptations (17:62).

On Doomsday, when the veil is removed from reality, it will be clear that those who had gone astray, or had misguided others, did not do so because of any misunderstanding. The reason for this was not their being unaware of the truth but their deliberately ignoring it. They could not rise above worldly pomp and show; they could not forego immediate benefits. The guidance provided by God through His special messenger was so clear that nobody could have remained unaware of realities. But their worship of the world drew a veil over their eyes; in spite of knowing, they chose to remain unaware; in spite of listening, they did not pay heed.

In the Hereafter, they will be shorn of the artificial supports on the strength of which they had remained careless of the Truth. There it will be pointed out how the Truth had appeared before them and how they had rejected it with the help of false words; how, though their mistake had been explained to them, they still thought that they had been successful in justifying their stand by clever misrepresentations.

God forgives unintentional error but He does not forgive arrogance or insolence.