The Trumpet blasts

The Trumpet blasts open the Day of Resurrection in the Sunni sources: a first blast of swooning and a second blast of rising ¹.

The Qur'an describes the day of the blast: whoever is in the heavens and earth swoons, save whom God wills, then it is blown again and they stand, watching the verse of the two blasts ². The hadith places forty between the two blasts, and has God send down rain from which people sprout like seedlings ¹. Israfil is the angel of the Trumpet, already poised ².

The two blasts are real events of the Day in Sunni creed: by the first, whoever remains dies; by the second, creation stands before the Lord of the worlds ³.