The Day of Judgement: Moral Law, and Physical Law

The physical World is awe inspiring.  It is stable, constant, predictable.  As the Quran describes it

1. Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse,
2. And the mountains as pegs?
3. And (have We not) created you in pairs,
4. And made your sleep for rest,
5. And made the night as a covering,
6. And made the day as a means of subsistence?
7. And (have We not) built over you the seven firmaments,
8. And placed (therein) a Light of Splendour?
9. And do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance,
10. That We may produce therewith corn and vegetables,
11. And gardens of luxurious growth?

The Quran shows this world of ours, has a physical process.  In this physical process, the law of cause and effect is a dominating factor.  The physical laws do not care about right and wrong, they don't abide by halal or haram.  They do not follow a moral law.  

The physical world may point to a moral law.  For example, the cyclical nature of things points to death and rebirth, like the seasons.  Also, if drinking and drugs do not usually have immediate have moral consequences, but eventually does lead to the medical consequences.  Also, the physical world does follow a law.  Hence, the overlapping between the moral law and the physical law.  

"The Sun and the Moon follow precise calculated path" (Quran)

However, one has to have some deeper insight to see the moral aspects behind physical laws, to which the moral laws are subservient.  

A person in the physical world can lie, and his or her tongue does not get blisters.  People like Hilter, Saddam Hussain during the 1980's killed hundred of thousands in Iraq, and Pol Pot from 1974 and 1979  killed millions of Cambodians.  A person can do a small crime with long term effects beyond one life time, or a person can murder millions, but murderer can only be killed once even if brought to justice in this world.  So no true justice can be had in this physical world in many cases.  

So, in this life morals are subservient to the physical laws.  

The day of judgement starts by undoing this physical world. 

1. When the sun (with its spacious light) is folded up;
2. When the stars fall, losing their lustre;
3. When the mountains vanish (like a mirage);
4. When the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended;
5. When the wild beasts are herded together (in the human habitations);
6. When the oceans boil over with a swell;
7. When the souls are sorted out, (being joined, like with like);
8. When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned -
9. For what crime she was killed;

And now the physical law is subservient to the moral law.

Just as the atom is the basic unit of the physical world, now the basic unit of atoms is filled withe moral law

1. Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
2. And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.