The Quran warns us about Destruction, Judgment Day, and Hell - Nouman Ali Khan
There are three threats in the Quran.
Please don't forget that.
If you study the entire Quran,
there are three kinds of threats.
Three kinds of warnings.
The first warning is nation,
"If you don't listen to your prophet,
you're going to be destroyed."
That was the warning given to the people of Nooh, Lot,
Salih, Shu'ayb, (عليهم السلام), Fir‘awn, you name it.
Those were the people that were given warnings,
"If you don't listen, your nation shall be destroyed."
Right? That's the first kind of threat in the Quran.
The second kind of threat
is what will happen to people on Judgment Day.
Okay.
The death, by the way, is not a threat.
Because death is a reality.
That's I'm not threatening you one day you'll die,
like, "Thanks, I already knew that."
That's not a threat.
So the first threat is destruction of nations.
The second threat is Judgment Day,
where you will be held accountable,
where you will be brought to trial.
The trial is the threat.
The third threat in the Quran is hell.
So there's three: Destruction of nations;
What else did I say? Let me hear from you.
Day of Judgment; and then hell.
Now, the thing about destruction of nations,
is do people know when it's coming?
No.
(QS. Al-Ankabut: 53) وَلَيَأْتِيَنَّهُم بَغْتَةً وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
"It will come to them
all of a sudden and they'll have no realization."
The mercy of Allah
is that our Messenger was the last Messenger ﷺ,
with him ended the destruction of nations.
There's no more destruction of nations.
That's done.
Ok. So that's a mercy from Allah عَزَّ وَ جَلَّى
that door of threat closed forever.
The last time those threats were issued,
they were issued to Quraysh.
That's it.
There's no more that one nation
would be completely annihilated,
or wiped out, or whatever else, ok?
So when they see, especially,
see a flood happened in some country,
"See, Allah adhab that cause the flood." (اللہ کا عذاب ہے دیکھو ذرا)
"Ah, shame on you."
That's not what Quran says.
That's what your...
you know, what your interpretation was.
You need to stop doing that.
That is the test from Allah,
not the adhab from Allah.
We don't say, "That's adhab from Allah,
that's torture from Allah."
We don't say that, ok?
Now, anyway, so there were three threats.
One of them comes to people they have no clue.
They've no clue what's going on,
and an earthquake came, a flood came.
Nobody even knows what's happening,
and all of a sudden they're done, isn't it?
But if you look at these ayah,
(QS. An-Naba: 4-5) كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُوْنَۙ ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُوْنَ
They will know, oh yeah, they will know.
Which means there are two punishments
where people will what?
They will know.
I told you how many threats are there?
Three. But one of them people
won't even know what's happening.
Which is which one?
Destruction of nations.
What are the two left?
Day of Judgment, hellfire.
When Judgment Day begins, people are terrified.
And then they know, "Oh!"
"OH MY GOD!"
This is, and,
(QS. Al-Kahf: 49) وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا حَاضِرًا
"They will find everything they did
standing in front of them."
They will know.
But even that isn't knowing...
until they see hell.
Because right now they're seeing your guilty.
What are they not seeing?
The jail that awaits you.
When they see that jail, then they realize know that,
when I realize I'm guilty,
I still didn't realize how serious it was
until I saw that jail.
There are two levels of realization for criminals.
One on Judgment Day,
the other on the Day of Resurrection,
what I just mean it,
the other on the day they see at the end of it,
when they see hellfire.
One of them is كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُوْنَۙ.
The next one is what?
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُوْنَ
And ثُمَّ is taraakhii (تَرَاخِي), is a long time.
ثُمَّ doesn't just mean 'moreover',
it actually means 'then after a long time'.
They'll realize again, oh wait till you see...
wait till they see it again.
In this Allah is basically said to the criminals,
"You are going to be singing a different tune
on Judgment Day."
"Wait till you see it."
Oh boy, and wait till you see what?
Hell on top of that.
And you'll notice as a surah continues,
Allah will first describe Judgment Day,
then He'll describe hellfire.
He'll actually Himself do tafseer of كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُوْنَۙ,
and then what?
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُوْنَ
He'll explain it Himself.
Subhanallah!