Yawm-ud Din

The Day of Judgement. That day upon which we must account for every vain word written or uttered. This day looks backwards to us as we look forward to it. This day haunts the Muslim as it haunts us, and stalks those form whom it is a childish tale to scare children into good behavior.

This day looks backwards upon us, in fact it does so now but for the fact of time we do not see it. This is however reality. This Truth will be known when our experience of time becomes congruent with that Day and our vision too will be backwards looking as it is even now.

For this reason it is important to remember, to manifest the remembrance, to unforget the Truth of ourselves. We are created in God's likeness and image and as Baptized Catholics have been restored to that state from a state of forgetfulness, that state of sin, into Truth. From lethe into aletheia. We are concealed in sin and unconcealed by Truth in His Name Alethea. Entombed in death we stand in life through His Name Anastasis. He is the Resurrection (anastasis). He is the Truth (aletheia).

These are Qiyam, Azkar, and Haqq.

The major difference is that in Christ we have these things through His Person as members of His Body. In Islam we are called to an existential judgment in which we have no part of God and are wholly dependent upon a deity which is ineffably distant from us.

In the end the choice for Islam or for Christ will determine the state from which we look back upon our lives on the Yawmud Din, the Day of Qiyamat. Will we be in Christ or will we be judged according to the Quran and its laws?