The terrors of the Day

The terrors are the hardships that meet creation on the Day before they settle into the reckoning; the Qur'an names it the day of fright, the day of regret and the day of meeting ¹.

The Qur'an pictures the Day's terrors: the sun folded up, the stars scattered, the mountains moved the opening of surat al-Takwir, the heaven split by cloud and the angels sent down the splitting-heaven verse ¹. In the Sunnah people are gathered barefoot, naked and uncircumcised, Ibrahim the first clothed, and the believer sweats as God wills ³.