Now this is the bottom line...
From his Book of Meditation and the Terrors to Come (no, not "terrorism"!)...
By His call, all the creatures are summoned to appear before Him, and the dead rise and stand upon their feet---a mighty army from all nations, king and beggar side by side,... bowing their heads in humility and adoration, before the King of kings. Then the sun and the moon will be darkened and the heavens and the earth will be cleft asunder and pass away, and the celestial beings, which dwell in the Seven Heaves, will shepherd those risen from the dead, on the Plain of Resurrection, and there... the records of men's deeds will be distributed... [whereupon] the balance will be set up, and he whose evil deeds outweigh the good will be condemned to eternal misery, and he whose good deeds outweigh the evil will be called to eternal happiness.
May Allah help us all!!!
[ Translation from Margaret Smith's An Early Mystic of Baghdad (out of print) ]
Comments