Al-Mukhtasar · Tafsir · in English
القيامة
Al-Qiyamah
The Resurrection · Meccan · 40 ayahs
Allah took an oath by the Day of Judgement when people stand before the Lord of the worlds.
75:2Page 577
وَلَآ أُقۡسِمُ بِٱلنَّفۡسِ ٱللَّوَّامَةِ ٢
And I swear by the reproaching soul1 [to the certainty of resurrection].
He took an oath by the pure soul that reproaches its owner for falling short in righteous deeds and for doing wrong deeds. He took an oath by these two things that He will certainly resurrect people for reckoning and recompense.
75:3Page 577
أَيَحۡسَبُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ أَلَّن نَّجۡمَعَ عِظَامَهُۥ ٣
Does man think that We will not assemble his bones?
Does man think that I will not gather his bones to be resurrected after he dies?!
75:4Page 577
بَلَىٰ قَٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّيَ بَنَانَهُۥ ٤
Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips.
Indeed, I am able together with gathering them to restore his fingertips in a proportionate form just as they were.
But man by his denial of the resurrection wants to continue sinning in the future unchecked.
He skeptically asks about the Day of Judgement: When will it occur?
When the sight is dazzled and astonished at the time when it sees what it used to deny.
And the light of the moon disappears.
And the mass of the sun and the moon are brought together.
75:10Page 577
يَقُولُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ يَوۡمَئِذٍ أَيۡنَ ٱلۡمَفَرُّ ١٠
Man will say on that Day, "Where is the [place of] escape?"
The sinning person will say on that day: Where is the escape?!
There is no escape on that day and there is no place in which the sinner can take refuge nor any place that he can seek protection in.
75:12Page 577
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوۡمَئِذٍ ٱلۡمُسۡتَقَرُّ ١٢
To your Lord, that Day, is the [place of] permanence.
The return and destination on that day will be to your Lord, O Messenger, for the reckoning and recompense.
75:13Page 577
يُنَبَّؤُاْ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ يَوۡمَئِذِۭ بِمَا قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ ١٣
Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead1 and kept back.2
On the day man will be informed about the actions that he sent forward and those that he left behind.
75:14Page 577
بَلِ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ عَلَىٰ نَفۡسِهِۦ بَصِيرَةٞ ١٤
Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness,1
Instead, man is a witness against himself as his limbs will testify against him in respect of the sins he committed.
Even if he brings excuses to argue on behalf of himself that he did not do any evil, these will not benefit him.
75:16Page 577
لَا تُحَرِّكۡ بِهِۦ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعۡجَلَ بِهِۦٓ ١٦
Move not your tongue with it, [O Muḥammad], to hasten with it [i.e., recitation of the Qur’ān].
Do not move your tongue, O Messenger, with the Qur’ān hastily for fear of its escaping from you.
75:17Page 577
إِنَّ عَلَيۡنَا جَمۡعَهُۥ وَقُرۡءَانَهُۥ ١٧
Indeed, upon Us is its collection [in your heart] and [to make possible] its recitation.
It is My duty to gather it in your chest and to establish its recitation on your tongue.
75:18Page 577
فَإِذَا قَرَأۡنَٰهُ فَٱتَّبِعۡ قُرۡءَانَهُۥ ١٨
So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its recitation.
When Gabriel has completed its recitation to you, then be attentive and listen to its being recited.
Then, it is My duty to explain it to you.
Nay, the matter is not as you claimed about the impossibility of resurrection. You know that the One Who was able to create you the first time is not unable to bring you back to life after you die. However, the reason for your denial of resurrection, is your love for the fleeting life of the world.
And your disregard for the life of the afterlife, the path of which is to carry out the acts of obedience that Allah has instructed you to and to leave the unlawful acts that He has prohibited you from.
The faces of the people of faith and fortune on that day will be radiant with light.
Looking at their Lord with enjoyment.
The faces of the people of disbelief and wretchedness on that day will be gloomy.
75:25Page 578
تَظُنُّ أَن يُفۡعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٞ ٢٥
Expecting that there will be done to them [something] backbreaking.
They will be sure that a great punishment and painful punishment is to come down on them.
75:26Page 578
كـَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِيَ ٢٦
No! When it [i.e., the soul] has reached the collar bones1
The matter is not as the idolaters imagined - that they will not be punished when they die. When the soul of any one of them reaches the upper part of his chest.
And people say to one another: Who can heal this person, perhaps he can be cured?!
75:28Page 578
وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ٱلۡفِرَاقُ ٢٨
And he [i.e., the dying one] is certain that it is the [time of] separation
The person in agony will be certain at that time that this is the departure from the world by death.
Difficulties will come together at the time when the world ends and the afterlife commences.
75:30Page 578
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوۡمَئِذٍ ٱلۡمَسَاقُ ٣٠
To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession.1
When this occurs, the deceased will be driven to his Lord.
75:31Page 578
فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ ٣١
And he [i.e., the disbeliever] had not believed, nor had he prayed.
The disbeliever did not accept what his messenger brought to him, nor did he pray to Allah, may He be glorified.
Instead, he denied what his messenger brought to him and turned away from it.
75:33Page 578
ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهۡلِهِۦ يَتَمَطَّىٰٓ ٣٣
And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride].
Then this disbeliever went to his family swaggering in his gait out of pride.
Allah thus warned the disbeliever that His punishment has come close to him.
He then repeated the sentence by way of emphasis and stated: “Again, closer and closer it comes to you.”
75:36Page 578
أَيَحۡسَبُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتۡرَكَ سُدًى ٣٦
Does man think that he will be left neglected?1
Does man think that Allah will leave him neglected without imposing any laws on him?
75:37Page 578
أَلَمۡ يَكُ نُطۡفَةٗ مِّن مَّنِيّٖ يُمۡنَىٰ ٣٧
Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted?
Was this human being one day not a drop of sperm spilt into the womb.
75:38Page 578
ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةٗ فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ٣٨
Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allāh] created [his form] and proportioned [him]
Thereafter he was a piece of coagulated blood. Then Allah created him and made his form proportionate.
75:39Page 578
فَجَعَلَ مِنۡهُ ٱلزَّوۡجَيۡنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلۡأُنثَىٰٓ ٣٩
And made of him two mates, the male and the female.
Then he made his species into two types: Male and female?!
75:40Page 578
أَلَيۡسَ ذَٰلِكَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُحۡـِۧيَ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ ٤٠
Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead?
Is not the One Who created man from a drop, then a clot, able to give life once again to the dead for the reckoning and recompense?! Indeed, He is able to do so.
Text: Quranic Universal Library (Tarteel), via spa5k/tafsir_api (MIT), at a fixed version. The ayahs: Quran Foundation. Sources and licences