Real Revolution — Page 52
52 this world, since the day of Qiyaamah and the. Nafsi Lawwamah have here been cited as a basis to establish that the dead shall be quickened. ·. For, if the Day of Qiyaamah here refers to the. Qiyaamah to come at the end of the world, then the argument becomes meaningless, since, mankind having already perished, there would be none to benefit by it. The dead will not need this argument to convince them that they were to be called back to life. The doubt as to the possibility of the dead being called back to life is a doubt in the mind of the living, and to remove it only that argument could be beneficial which applied to this world itself. . The fact of the matter is that this verse refers to an event which was to take place in this world itself, an event which was to serve as an argument to establish ¹, inevitability of the final Qiyaamah. . That event has been mentioned here together with nafsi lawwaamah, which furnishes another proof in support of Life after Death. Two arguments have been used here because the critics answered therein belonged to two separate periods. For instance, for the people at a later period who would deny the. Qiyaamah an event has been mentioned which, being akin to the final and the bigger Qiyaamab, itself deserved to be called the Qiyaamah in a sense. And this view is further supported by what we read in