عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ - رضي الله عنه - أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا، فَإِذَا طَلَعَتْ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا، آمَنَ النَّاسُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ، فَيَوْمَئِذٍ ﴿لَا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إِيمَانُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ آمَنَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ أَوْ كَسَبَتْ فِي إِيمَانِهَا خَيْرًا﴾ [الأنعام: 158]».
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. The Last Hour will not arrive until the sun has risen from the west. 2. When it rises from the west all mankind will believe. 3. At that time ‘to believe will be of no avail to any human being who did not believe before, or who did not put its faith to good use’.
(6: 158) Related by al-Bukhari, 4635; Muslim, 157
Are they waiting for the angels to come to them, or for your Lord [Himself], or are they certain of your Lord’s signs to appear? On the Day when certain of your Lord’s signs do appear, believing will be of no avail to any human being who did not believe before, or who did not put its faith to good uses. Say: ‘Wait if you will; we too are waiting’.
(6: 158)
And when they saw Our might, they said: ‘We believe in God alone, and we renounce those we used to associate as partners with Him’.
(84)
But accepting the faith after they had seen Our might was not going to benefit them at all.
(40: 84-85)
