Allah has concealed from us! Thus, when the servant is a believer, Allah will say to him, “Indeed, I concealed them for you in the world, and today I forgive you for them,” and so on. But the disbeliever—may Allah protect us—will be exposed and disgraced, and it will be proclaimed before all witnesses: “These are the ones who lied against their Lord; surely the curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers” (Hūd 11:18).

Among the matters that one must affirm concerning the Day of Resurrection is the Basin that awaits our Prophet Muhammad—peace and blessings be upon him. Two channels from al-Kawthar, the river that Allah granted the Prophet in Paradise—“Indeed, We have given you al-Kawthar” (Al-Kawthar 108:1)—will pour into this Basin, which will stand in the Plain of the Resurrection.

The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—described its water as whiter than milk, sweeter than honey, and more fragrant than musk; its drinking vessels as numerous as the stars of the sky; its length a month’s journey and its width a month’s journey; and he said that whoever drinks from it once will never thirst again.

The believers from the Prophet’s community will come to that Basin—may Allah allow me and you to reach it—where they will drink their fill, whereas those who did not believe in the Messenger—peace