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A questioner asked concerning a torment about to befall |
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Upon the disbelievers, which none can avert, |
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From Allah, the Lord of the ways of ascent. |
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The angels and the Ruh [Jibrael (Gabriel)] ascend to Him in a Day the measure whereof is fifty thousand years, |
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So be patient (O Muhammad ), with a good patience. |
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Verily! They see it (the torment) afar off, |
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But We see it (quite) near. |
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The Day that the sky will be like the boiling filth of oil, (or molten copper or silver or lead, etc.). |
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And the mountains will be like flakes of wool, |
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And no friend will ask of a friend, |
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Though they shall be made to see one another [(i.e. on the Day of Resurrection), there will be none but see his father, children and relatives, but he will neither speak to them nor will ask them for any help)], - the Mujrim, (criminal, sinner, disbeliever, etc.) would desire to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by his children. |
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And his wife and his brother, |
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And his kindred who sheltered him, |
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And all that are in the earth, so that it might save him . |
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By no means! Verily, it will be the Fire of Hell! |
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Taking away (burning completely) the head skin! |
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Calling: "[O Kafir (O disbeliever in Allah, His angels, His Book, His Messengers, Day of Resurrection and in Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments), O Mushrik (O polytheist, disbeliever in the Oneness of Allah)] (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind (on the Day of Resurrection) just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] [Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, Vol. 18, Page 289] |
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And collect (wealth) and hide it (from spending it in the Cause of Allah). |
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Verily, man (disbeliever) was created very impatient; |
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Irritable (discontented) when evil touches him; |
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