Allah has named some of them, as He says in Surah al-An‘am: “That was Our argument which We granted Abraham against his people. We raise in rank whom We will; your Lord is indeed All-Wise, All-Knowing. We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob—each of them We guided—and before them We guided Noah; and from his descendants David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward the doers of good. And Zakariyya, John, Jesus and Elias—each of them was among the righteous—and Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah and Lot; every one of them We favored above all people.” (Qur’an 6:83–86) In these verses, as in others, a number of prophets are mentioned. We believe in all whom Allah has named, and we also believe in those He has not named.

Fifth: Belief in the Last Day. Faith in the Last Day is the fifth pillar. The “Last Day” means the Day of Resurrection; it is so called because it comes after the first day—the day of this worldly life. The world is the first day, and the Resurrection is the Last Day. Belief in the Last Day includes believing in everything that follows death: the torment or bliss of the grave, the questioning by the two angels within it, and all that comes after the grave. It likewise encompasses belief in the resurrection, the rising for judgment, the gathering, the reckoning, the weighing of deeds, the bridge over Hell, the scales by which good and evil deeds are weighed, and in Paradise and Hellfire. The particulars of what will unfold in