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5) Belief in the Day of Judgment:
 The fifth essential condition of faith (al- Iman) is to be believed in the Day of Judgment (the Last Day).
In other words, it is to believe in the blowing of the trumpet, in the raising of the dead from their graves, in the handing to everyone of his/ her Book of Deeds, in the assembling on the plain of the Final Judgment, in the questioning and in the weighing on the scale (balance) of the deeds done in the previous life in the world.
The Hereafter (al -Akhirah) is the endless life after this temporary worldly life. God Almighty has created this world and the whole creation for a limited period of time.
Muslims believe in the Day of Judgment (the Day of Resurrection) when all people will be resurrected for God’s judgment according to their beliefs and deeds. In the day of Judgment, there the whole of creation will be questioned individually about his/ her worldly deeds in minute detail before God Almighty. 
At that time, the just shall receive their due rights from the unjust. At the end of Final Judgment the good shall be stationed in Paradise and the evil in Hell.

6) Belief in Al-Qadar: (Divine Decree)
Muslims believe in Al-Qadar, which is Divine Predestination, but this belief in Divine Predestination does not mean that human beings do not have freewill. Rather, Muslims believe that God Almighty has given human
beings freewill. This means that they can choose right or wrong and that they are responsible for their choices.

The belief in Divine Predestination includes belief in four things:
1) God knows everything. He knows what has happened and what will happen.
2) God has recorded all that has happened and all that will happen.
3) Whatever God wills to happen happens, and whatever He wills not to happen does not happen.
4) God is the Creator of everything.

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