5. Books of deeds

Our book of deeds, in which Kirāman Kātibīn write all our deeds; these books will testify on the Day of Judgement. Every minor and major deed will be written in these.

The Companion Anas Ibn Mālik رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ narrates that the final Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said:

All books of deeds are under the ʿArsh. When the Day of Judgement will occur, Allah will send a wind that shall cast them into the right hands of some and the left hands of others. The first statement in those books will read:^[1]

اِقۡرَاۡ کِتٰبَکَ ؕ  کَفٰی بِنَفۡسِکَ الۡیَوۡمَ عَلَیۡکَ  حَسِیۡبًا (ؕ۱۴)

 It will be said (to him), 'Read your own book (of deeds); this Day you are sufficient enough to take account of yourself.'^[2]

Imam Ḥasan al-Baṣrī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه said, “Every person will read his record of deeds, whether they were able to read in the world or not.”^[3]

Brothers in Islam, this will be an intense phase on the Day of Judgement. Shaykh Ibn al-Jawzī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه writes:

When a person is given his book of deeds on the Day of Judgement, he will observe even his most minor sin written in it and lower his head in shame. 

Allah will order, “O man, raise your head! Do you know of this sin?”