Our Records

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Our journeying to Allah is by obeying His commands and avoiding His prohibitions. When we meet Allah, we will be recompensed either by His beneficence or His justice. His beneficence if we are from the felicitous and His just punishment if we are from the wretched. May Allah save us from being among the wretched.

The felicitous, who will be given his book/record in his right hand will receive an easy reckoning, a presentation of his deeds. He will return joyfully to his family in Paradise for he has attained the reward of Allah.

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًا فَمُلَـٰقِيهِ ﴿٦﴾ فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ ﴿٧﴾ فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا ﴿٨﴾ وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا ﴿٩﴾

6) O mankind, you are toiling laboriously toward your Lord. You will meet Him.
7) Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand,
8) he shall surely receive an easy reckoning,
9) and he will return to his family joyfully.

(Qur'an Inshiqaq 84:6-9)

But for him who is given his book/record behind his back, in his left hand, he will cry out for destruction, out of despair and humiliation, and for the sins which he never repented. He will roast in a Blaze. He had once lived happily among his family, without a thought that he would return (to Allah) and that the Resurrection would occur. He had committed sins without a thought that He would return to his Lord and stand before Him. But the Lord always had sight of him.

وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ وَرَآءَ ظَهْرِهِۦ ﴿١٠﴾ فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًا ﴿١١﴾ وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا ﴿١٢﴾ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فِىٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا ﴿١٣﴾ إِنَّهُۥ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ ﴿١٤﴾ بَلَىٰٓ إِنَّ رَبَّهُۥ كَانَ بِهِۦ بَصِيرًا ﴿١٥﴾

10) But as for him who is given his book behind his back,
11) he shall call for destruction
12) but will roast in a Scorching Blaze.
13) He once lived among his family joyfully
14) without a thought that he would return [to Allah]
15) Yes, indeed! His Lord always had sight of him.

(Qur'an Inshiqaq 84:10-15)

Aisha, Allah be pleased with her, reported that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “(On the Day of Resurrection) anyone whose account will be taken will be ruined (i.e go to Hell)." I said: 'O Allah's Apostle! May Allah make me be sacrificed for you. 'Doesn't Allah say: “Then he who is given his record in his right hand, he surely will receive and easy reckoning."?' He replied, “That is the presentation of the accounts, but he whose record is questioned, will be ruined.” (Bukhari)

One should not imagine that Allah would leave him to wander without direction, not being commanded, not being prohibited, not being rewarded and not being punished.

May Allah give our record in our right hands and not behind our backs, and save us from the Blaze. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam