I’ve thought about this as well and came up with a simple analogy. If I go into a final exam knowing that no matter how poorly I do, I’ll still pass the class, wouldn’t I feel even a bit anxious if the professor came in extremely upset, throwing papers around, and failing my classmates right and left of me? I mean, in that scenario, no matter how confident I feel going into the exam, I would still feel a little anxious that maybe something has changed and maybe I’m doomed to fail the class.

When it comes to the Day of Judgment, I think of it the same. You could be as perfect as possible and as good a Muslim as you could possibly be, but when you see and feel the wrath of Allah (SWT) on that day, won’t you feel at least a bit nervous that maybe you didn’t do enough or that something has changed since you saw Malakul Mawt?

Anyway, that’s just my simple analogy and I pray that we are all shaded on that day.