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| 1. * | Nay! I call to witness the Day of Resurrection. |
| 2. * | Nay, I call to witness the person who shows remorse after wrongdoing. (12:53. Notice the Law taking the first step instantly). |
| 3. * | Does the human being think that We will not assemble his bones? ((36:78), (37:16). Life goes on without its essence, the 'Self', undergoing disintegration). |
| 4. * | Yes indeed, Yes, We have the Power to restore even his finger tips with finger prints! |
| 5. * | But man is after subverting his own future. |
| 6. * | (Yet) he asks, "When will this Day of Resurrection be?" |
| 7. * | But when the sight is dazzled. |
| 8. * | And the moon is darkened. (The banner of the Age of Ignorance bearing the moon logo goes down). |
| 9. * | And the sun and the moon are brought together. (Persia and Arabia come under one Rule. Sun being the logo on the Persian banner). |
| 10. * | On that Day man will wonder, "Where to flee!" (In this life and in the life to come. Verses 7-10 could easily allude to the merging of the super power of the times, Persia with the newly enlightened Arabia in 642 C.E., 10 years after the exalted Prophet's death). |
| 11. * | But, nay! No height to mount above the turmoil! |
| 12. * | Unto your Lord that Day is the resting place. |
| 13. * | On the Day when man is apprised of all his acts of commission and omission. (All he has done and left undone. All deeds that advanced him and kept him behind). |
| 14. * | Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself. |
| 15. * | Even though he were to put forward all his excuses. |
| 16. * | (Now whenever you read the verses of the Qur'an) read not in haste stirring your tongue. (20:114). |
| 17. * | Behold, it is up to Us to gather it (in your heart) and the reading of it. (He will bless whatever effort we put into learning it). |
| 18. * | Thus, when We read it, follow you the reading. (Allah has revealed the Qur'an, and bestowed upon us the faculty of understanding, hence, "When We read it.") |
| 19. * | Then, behold! It is for Us to explain it. (The Qur'an is its own best commentary. It explains itself). |
| 20. * | Nay, but you love instant results. |
| 21. * | And give little thought to the long term. ('Akhirah' = Hereafter = Life to come = Future = Long term = What follows = Subsequent = Enduring. Tomorrow is today's 'Akhira'.) |
| 22. * | Some faces that Day will beam with happiness. |
| 23. * | Looking up to their Lord. |
| 24. * | And some faces on that Day will be despondent. |
| 25. * | Expecting a back breaking calamity. |
| 26. * | Nay, when the last breaths come up to the throat. |
| 27. * | And those around cry, "Is there any charmer?" |
| 28. * | But he knows that this is the parting. |
| 29. * | And it is pang upon pang. |
| 30. * | That day the drive is to your Lord. |
| 31. * | For he neither stood by the Truth, nor did he follow it. ('Sal'= To follow, like the runners-up horse closely follows the winner = To closely follow the Commands of Allah). |
| 32. * | Rather, he used to deny and turn away. |
| 33. * | And then used to walk back to his folk and his ways gleefully. |
| 34. * | This is the most befitting for you - now this is the most befitting. |
| 35. * | Again! This is the most befitting for you - now this is the most befitting. (The impending requital befits the behavior). |
| 36. * | Does man think he will be left alone like a soundless broken musical string? |
| 37. * | Was he not gametes that moved to join? |
| 38. * | Then he became a zygote. And He shaped and fashioned him in due proportion. |
| 39. * | And He has made of humans pairs, male and female. |
| 40. * | Is not He, then, Able to bring the dead to life? |