Al-QiyāmahThe Resurrection

The self-reproaching soul (al-lawwāmah) is sworn by because every soul, righteous or sinful, reproaches itself — the righteous for falling short, the sinful in glimpses of conscience it tries to suppress.

Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm

'Balā qādirīna ʿalā an nusawwiya banānah' (75:4) — classical mufassirūn like al-Qurṭubī explain that 'banānah' refers to the delicate tips and extremities of the fingers and toes. Highlighting them underscores Allah's absolute power to reassemble even the smallest, most intricate joints of the human body upon resurrection.

Cited toAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān

'Bal yurīdu al-insānu li-yafjura amāmah' — man wants to keep sinning ahead of him, unchecked, and so he pushes the Day of Judgement out of his mind rather than genuinely doubting the argument for it.

Cited toAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān

Ibn ʿAbbās explained that the Prophet ﷺ used to move his lips along with Jibrīl عليه السلام out of eagerness not to forget, so this āyah was revealed to relieve him of that effort — its preservation was already guaranteed.

Cited toṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4927, 5044

'Inna ʿalaynā jamʿahu wa qurʾānah' — upon Us is its collection in your breast and its recitation upon your tongue; 'fa-idhā qaraʾnāhu fa-ttabiʿ qurʾānah' — so when We (through Jibrīl) have recited it, follow that recitation attentively.

Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm

'Thumma inna ʿalaynā bayānah' — then upon Us is its clarification, meaning the explanation of its rulings and meanings, a promise later fulfilled through further revelation and through the Prophet's ﷺ own teaching.

Cited toAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān

'Wujūhun yawmaʾidhin nāḍirah, ilā rabbihā nāẓirah' is cited by Ahl al-Sunnah as a proof that the believers will see Allah in the Hereafter, a direct, honouring vision reserved for that Day.

Cited toIbn Kathīr

The two verses on faces are placed back-to-back deliberately: radiance and gazing upon the Lord versus a face that already looks defeated, expecting the fāqirah — a crushing blow to the spine.

Cited toAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān

'Kallā idhā balaghat at-tarāqiya' — no, when the soul reaches the collarbones at death; the surrounding verses describe the helpless search for a physician and the certainty, at last, that this is al-firāq — the final parting from this world.

Cited toIbn Kathīr

'Wa-ltaffat as-sāqu bis-sāq' is understood by most commentators as the extreme hardship of the death agony described physically — the legs entwining in the final throes — and by some as the joining of this world's hardship with that of the next.

Cited toAl-Qurṭubī

'A-yaḥsabu al-insānu an yutraka sudan' — does man imagine he will be left without command or prohibition, without reward or punishment? The rhetorical question exposes the absurdity of believing existence has no accountability attached to it.

Cited toIbn Kathīr

The progression — a drop, then a clinging clot, then shaping, then the two sexes — is presented as the pattern Allah already enacts routinely; the One who does this the first time is 'qādirun ʿalā an yuḥyiya al-mawtā', able to do it again.

Cited toAl-Ṭabarī