THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT AND THE FLEEING OF THE PEOPLE FROM THEIR RELATIVES DURING IT

ALLĀH said:

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ الْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ 

On the Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children,

meaning, he will see them and then flee from them, and seek to get away from them because horror will be so great and the matter will be so weighty.

There is an authentic Hadith related concerning the intercession that states that every one of the great Messengers of firm resolve will be requested to intercede with ALLĀH on behalf of the creation, but each of them will say: "O myself! O myself! Today I will not ask YOU (O ALLĀH) concerning anyone but myself."

Even `Isa bin Maryam will say: "I will not ask HIM (ALLĀH) concerning anyone but myself today. I will not even ask Maryam, the woman who gave birth to me."

ALLĀH said:

لِكُلِّ امْرِيٍ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَيِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ

For every man, that Day, will be a matter adequate for him.

meaning, he will be preoccupied in his business and distracted from the affairs of others.

Ibn Abi Hatim recorded from Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of ALLĀH ﷺ said: "You will all be gathered barefoot, naked, walking and uncircumcised."

So his wife said, "O Messenger of ALLĀH! Will we look at or see each other's nakedness"

The Prophet ﷺ replied: "Every man among them on that Day will have enough (worries) to make him careless of others --

or he said: he will be too busy to look.

{Tafsi‌r Ibn Kathīr}

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