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One minute here = 1200 minutes there
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If one of us lives, how long will they live? 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 years—no more than that, correct? After that, what will happen? The person will die and enter the grave, where they will live in the Barzakh (intermediate) life.
Pharaoh—how many years has he been dead? Thousands of years. Thus, this world—the 100 or 120 years a person lives—is very short compared to the Barzakh life in the grave, where the righteous will enjoy bliss and the wicked will suffer torment.
After that comes the Day of Judgment. It is authentically reported from the Prophet ﷺ that the length of the Day of Judgment is fifty thousand years, a day that is extremely long. For the believers, it will be made easy, as God the Exalted says:
The sovereignty, that Day, will be the true (possession) of the Most Merciful. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day. (Quran 25:26)
This entire length is before the people are separated—when the people of Paradise will enter Paradise and the people of the Fire will enter the Fire.
I once did a simple "mathematical calculation." I said: If one of us lives, for example, 75 or 80 years, and we subtract from that 13 years (the period of childhood and non-accountability), and we subtract from that every day seven or eight hours of sleep, then we calculate the ratio between the life in this world where one is accountable and the Day of Judgment alone (without even mentioning eternity in Paradise or the Fire).
If we make this ratio, you will find that for every minute in this world, there are 1200 minutes in the Hereafter. In other words: One single minute in this world is equivalent to an entire day (24 hours) on the Day of Judgment.
Imagine if God the Exalted accepts from us this session now—how many minutes did we spend in it? Picture God making that moment on the Day of Judgment 1200 times easier than the time we spent here in His obedience. O God! The Day of Judgment is indeed very long, and it is worth preparing for.