Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

wa-lam nughādir minhum aḥadā
—and we
will not leave anybody behind. Nobody will be excused from that herding and
that gathering together.
They shall be brought before your Lord, all lined up, and shall be told:
“Now, indeed, you have come before Us in the manner We created
you in the first instance, although you thought that We shall not
appoint a tryst (with Us)”.
(Al-Kahf 18: 48)

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Wa-ʿuriḍū ʿalā Rabbika
—and this is literally the example of the farmer;
when the crop is ready, he plucks the plants. We’ve been planted into this earth
like seeds go into this earth; all of us are going to go into this earth, right? We
are going to go into this ground and then the harvest season will come. The
harvest season is the Day of Judgement, and Allah will pluck every one of us out
of our graves like plants are plucked out by the farmer when it’s harvest season
and stacked in rows. 
Wa-ʿuriḍū ʿalā Rabbika
—they will be made to present
themselves; they will be presented before your Master—
ṣaffan
—in rows upon
rows upon rows. There is going to be this huge assembly of humanity and Allah
will say then: 
laqad ji’tumūnā kamā khalaqnākum awwala marrah
—you have
come back to Us the way We created you the first time around. 
Bal zaʿamtum an
lan najʿala lakum mawʿidan
—and you had assumed that you don’t have any
meeting with Us, you thought you’re not going to come back, you were hanging
out in the world like there are no consequences. Do you think that right now—
bal zaʿamtum an lan najʿala lakum mawʿidan
?
And then the Record of their deeds shall be placed before them and
you will see the guilty full of fear for what it contains, and will say:
“Woe to us! What a Record this is! It leaves nothing, big or small, but
encompasses it”. They will find their deeds confronting them. Your
Lord wrongs no one.
(Al-Kahf 18: 49)
Wa-wuḍiʿa al-kitāb
—and then the book will be placed, it will be put down—
wa-tarā al-mujrimīn mushfiqīn mimmā fīhi
—then you are going to see criminals
that are just terrified about what this book has in it. Their book is dropped down
and it’s about to be opened, it’s about to be read, people that did wrong in this
life are just terrified that this book is about to be opened. They’re going to say,
‘Oh my God, this couldn’t get any worse. What is wrong with this book? What
kind of book is this?’ 
Mā li-hādhā al-kitāb lā yughādir ṣāghīratan wa-lā

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kabīratan illā aḥṣāhā
—it doesn’t leave anything small out; it doesn’t leave
anything big out. No small detail got overlooked, no one thing I said, no one
comment I made, no one post I posted; none of it got overlooked. None of it got
erased. It is recorded completely.
Aḥṣāhā
is used in Arabic when you count by putting pebbles in a bottle. This
was an ancient way of counting. If you put pebbles in a bottle, the pebbles ain’t
going nowhere. They are in there now. The criminal starts looking at his book,
‘Man, this book covered everything. Stuff I remember and stuff I don’t even
remember. It’s reminding me of what I did—small mistakes and big mistakes,
small deeds and big deeds’. 
Wa-wajadū mā ʿamilū ḥāḍiran
—and they will find
whatever they have already done, standing right in front of them. Allah gave us
two parables: on the one hand He said the few good things you’ve done are
going to be a good investment for you. On the other hand He says the small bad
deeds and the big bad deeds, if you don’t care about your good deeds, then
watch out because they are all going to be recorded and your deeds are going to
be like this personified thing standing in front of you, face to face, like a mirror.