Editing Islamic eschatology (section)

=== Greater Resurrection  ===
At [[divine judgement]], the resurrected will stand in a grand assembly, each person's ''Book of Deeds'' –  where "every small and great thing is recorded" – will be read,<ref>{{qref|54|52-53|b=y}}</ref> and ultimate judgement made.<ref name="auto">{{qref|74|38|b=y}}</ref><ref name="muhammad592">{{cite journal|title=Muslims' Eschatological Discourses on Colonialism in Northern Nigeria|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|volume=67|issue=1|last=Muhammad|first=S. Umar|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=59–84|jstor=1466033|doi=10.1093/jaarel/67.1.59}}</ref> The resurrected will then walk over the bridge of [[As-Sirāt]], those judged worthy for the Garden continuing to their heavenly abode, those damned to The Fire, falling off the bridge into the pit of Jahannam.<ref name="WimEoQ2">"Reward and Punishment", ''Encyclopedia of the Qur'an''(2005)</ref> There will also be a punishment of the grave (for those who disbelieved) between death and the resurrection.<ref>Leor Halevi, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/opinion/04iht-edhalevi.1.5565834.html].</ref>

Not everyone consigned to hell will remain there, as it is believed by both scholars and lay Muslims that "all but the ''[[kafir|mushrikun]]'', those who have committed the worst sin of impugning the ''[[tawḥīd]]'' of God, have the possibility of being saved;"<ref name=JISYYHIU1981:81>[[#JISYYHIU1981|Smith & Haddad, ''Islamic Understanding'',  1981]]: p.81</ref> and God's intercession to save sinners from hellfire is a "major theme" in popular Islamic stories about Judgement Day.<ref name=JISYYHIU1981:25>[[#JISYYHIU1981|Smith & Haddad, ''Islamic Understanding'',  1981]]: p.25</ref>