Pharaoh's Judgement Against Himself

In the hereafter our scrolls will be unrolled and the human being will look at his scrolls right away. For each human being seventy scrolls are recorded against him in his world. In the hereafter his scrolls are unrolled, and the matter of the hereafter is not like the matter of this world — you open the book and you read the first page from the first line to the last, then you turn the page and so forth, no. Over there, there is immediate totality. The vision of the human being will be total and all-inclusive. He will appear, look and read all his life in a single gaze that encompasses all his life.

At that time it will be said to him, what is your judgment concerning that man? He himself will judge himself so that there can be no injustice, just as Fir’awn passed judgment against himself. Two angels came to him in the form of human beings and asked him, “Our king sent us to you to ask you about a slave that ran away from him after he had immersed him in his bounty. What is his requital?” He replied, “To drown in the sea!”

When they decided to leave, to leave no doubt to Fir’awn, they said, “We want a document signed and sealed by you because our king might not accept from us a mere verbal report. So give us a paper sealed with the ruling.” They took the paper and they showed it to him at the time he was drowning, saying to him, “This is your judgment against yourself.”

Therefore, on the Day of Resurrection, there will be no leeway for the servant to object and say, “this judgment does not suit me, this is injustice.”

Translated from the Arabic by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad ﵀