The second important tenet of Islam is belief in the resurrection day, and that Allah holds for HIMSELF the ownership of that DAY exclusively.

      Here by GOD'S OWNERSHIP is meant, His influence, predominance, and ascendancy over everything in that Day of judgement and justice - the day in which man stands in the presence of his real OWNER, and real Lord, Who can see and feel all that he has done, or said, even his thoughts! Man shall come to know that nothing is lost or forgotten, though it be as small as the head point of needle! Then it is he who has to answer for his responsibilities and deeds.

      Without doubt, the ownership of God in all the existing worlds, is a real and absolute ownership, and not something relative or for the time being.

      One may ask: ``Why should we call HIM the owner of the DAY OF DOOM, while He is the absolute, owner of all things?'' The answer is:

Though Allah is the owner of both this world, and Hereafter, but in the hereafter, His ownership is more open and obvious to the sense and sight. There; all the material relations and connections are cut out, and the temporary and relative ownerships are abolished, and everything is openly in the hands of God. No one is seen to have anything of his own. (except his good or bad deeds)

      HIS BELIEF IN RESURRECTION, prevents man from going astray, and doing evil, and so is the effect of the daily PRAYERS. It is narrated that Imam Sajjad (AS) was repeating the verse (OWNER OF THE DAY OF DOOM)

so much; and so that it seemed his soul would fain have gone out of his body!

As for the compound word YOMODDIN (DAY OF DOOM), it has always the meaning of RESURRECTION DAY, throughout the HOLY QURÄN. In the other phases the ARABIC word `DIN' may mean `RELIGION' OR `REWARD', and this is why sometimes the DAY OF DOOM is interpreted as the `DAY OF REWARD'.