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Al-Qiyāmah · Resurrection

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سُورَةُ القيامة

About this chapter

Sūrat al-Qiyāmah is a Meccan surah. It is reported that verses 3-6 were revealed concerning ʿUdayy ibn Rabīʿah ibn Abī Salamah, who came to Prophet Muhammad (s), asking him when the Day of Judgement would happen and what it will be like.

The introduction sets out when the chapter came and what it addresses; the merits gather what the narrations say of reading it. Both are written as units of the tafsir, with their own footnotes.

IntroductionWhat the chapter is about, and when it cameMeritsWhat the narrations say of reading it

The verses

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  1. 1–2 I swear by the Day of Resurrection!
  2. 3 Does man suppose that We shall not put together his bones?
  3. 4 Yes indeed, We are able to proportion [even] his fingertips!
  4. 5 Rather, man desires to go on living viciously.
  5. 6 He asks: ‘When is this day of resurrection?!’
  6. 7 But when the eyes are dazzled.
  7. 8–9 And the moon is eclipsed,
  8. 10 That day man will say: ‘Where is the escape?’
  9. 11 No indeed! There is no refuge!
  10. 12 That day the abode will be toward your Lord.
  11. 13 That day man will be informed about what he has sent ahead and left behind.
  12. 14 Rather, man is a witness to himself.
  13. 15 Though he should offer his excuses.
  14. 16 Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it.
  15. 17 Indeed it is up to Us to put it together and to recite it.
  16. 18 And when We have recited it, follow its recitation.
  17. 19 Then, its exposition indeed [also] lies with Us.
  18. 20–21 No Indeed! Rather, you love this transitory life
  19. 22–23 Some faces will be fresh on that day,
  20. 24–25 And some faces will be scowling on that day,
  21. 26 No indeed! When it [the soul] reaches up to the collar bones.
  22. 27 And it is said: ‘Who will take him up?’
  23. 28 And he knows that it is the [time of] parting.
  24. 29 And the shank is wound around shank.
  1. 30 That day he shall be driven toward your Lord.
  2. 31–32 He neither confirmed [the truth], nor prayed,
  3. 33 And went swaggering to his family.
  4. 34–35 So, woe to you! Woe to you!
  5. 36 Does man suppose that he would be abandoned to futility?
  6. 37 Was he not a drop of emitted semen?
  7. 38 Then he became a clinging mass; then He created [him] and proportioned [him].
  8. 39 And made of him the two sexes, the male and the female.
  9. 40 Is not such a one able to revive the dead?

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