ٱقْرَأْ كِتَٰبَكَ كَفَىٰ بِنَفْسِكَ ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكَ حَسِيبًۭا
Iqra kitaabak kafaa binafsikal Yawma 'alaika haseebaa
[It will be said], "Read your record. Sufficient is yourself against you this Day as accountant."
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17:14Ayah 1111
9 ayahs in Al-Israa are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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And it will be said to him ‘Read your book! This day your soul suffices as your own reckoner’.
Related Hadiths
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said," (On the Day of Resurrection) any one whose account will be taken will be
ruined (i.e. go to Hell)." I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! May Allah make me be sacrificed for you. Doesn't
Allah say:
"Then as for him who will be given his record in his right hand, he surely will receive an easy
reckoning.?" (84.7-8) He replied, "That is only the presentation of the accounts; but he whose record
is questioned, will be ruined."
(This hadith is also narrated through two other chains)
“I heard that the Messenger of Allah saying: ‘Whoever is interrogated during the reckoning, then he will ruined.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Allah, Blessed is He and Most High, said: ‘As for him who will be given his record in his right hand…” up to His saying: ‘…an easy reckoning.’ He said: ‘That is (only) the presentation.’”
`Aisha said, "The Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'Anybody whose account (record) is questioned will surely be
punished.' I said, 'Doesn't Allah say: 'He surely will receive an easy reckoning?' (84.8) The Prophet (ﷺ)
replied. 'This means only the presentation of the account."'
Narrated `Aisha:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said (as above, 543).
"The first thing for which a person will be brought to account on the Day of Resurrection will be his Salah. If it is found to be complete then it will be recorded as complete, and if anything is lacking He will say: 'Look and see if you can find any voluntary prayers with which to complete what he neglected of his obligatory prayers.' Then the rest of his deeds will be reckoned in like manner."
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