How will the unbelievers be on the Day of Judgement?

The Day of Judgement is the most dreadful and terrifying day one can ever imagine living through. On that day unbelievers will meet a manifest truth which they never thought about even though they were promised it, and it will be impossible to be sent back again to compensate for what they did in the world. On that day, unbelievers will understand in terror that death is not a destruction, but on the contrary, the beginning of a painful punishment which will last forever. Allah has stated in the Qur’an that people will be like drunkards on that day, on account of the intensity of the terror they feel:

…And you will think people drunk when they are not drunk; it is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe.(Surat al-Hajj, 2)

On that day, all value judgements of unbelievers will change at once because of the terror of the occurrence. Wealth and sons they used to consider the most valuable won’t be of any importance any more. Allah heralds in the Qur’an that on that day people will seek only for their own rescue and will flee from each other:

The Day a man will flee from his brother and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children: on that Day every man among them will have concerns enough of his own. (Surah ‘Abasa, 34-37)

Some of the details related in verses about how people will be on that day are as follows:

… The eyes of those who disbelieved will be transfixed… (Surat al-Anbiya, 97)

Every nursing woman will be oblivious of the baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the contents of her womb (Surat al-Hajj, 2)

How will you safeguard yourselves, if you disbelieve, against a Day which will turn children grey (Surat al-Muzzammil, 17)

How will the unbelievers be on the Day of Judgement?