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بِسْمِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
(Book#990)
[The Day when the heaven will split open with clouds,]
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Sura:25
Para:19
Sura: Al-Furqaan
Ayat: 25-31
25:25
وَ یَوۡمَ تَشَقَّقُ السَّمَآءُ بِالۡغَمَامِ وَ نُزِّلَ الۡمَلٰٓئِکَۃُ تَنۡزِیۡلًا ﴿۲۵﴾
And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent.
The Terrors of the Day of Resurrection, and how the Wrongdoers will wish that They had taken a Path with the Messenger
Allah tells:
وَيَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ السَّمَاء بِالْغَمَامِ وَنُزِّلَ الْمَلَيِكَةُ تَنزِيلً
And (remember) the Day when the heaven shall be rent asunder with clouds, and the angels will be sent down, with a grand descending.
Here Allah tells us about the terror of the Day of Resurrection and the tremendous events that will happen, including the splitting of heavens when they are pierced by the clouds, that is the shadow of the magnificent light which dazzles all sight.
The angels of heaven will come down on that Day and surround all creatures at the place of gathering, then the Lord, may He be blessed and exalted, will come to pass judgement.
Mujahid said,
This is as Allah says:
هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلاَّ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي ظُلَلٍ مِّنَ الْغَمَامِ وَالْمَلَـيِكَةُ
Do they then wait for anything other than that Allah should come to them in the shadows of the clouds and the angels. (2:210)
25:26
اَلۡمُلۡکُ یَوۡمَئِذِۣ الۡحَقُّ لِلرَّحۡمٰنِ ؕ وَ کَانَ یَوۡمًا عَلَی الۡکٰفِرِیۡنَ عَسِیۡرًا ﴿۲۶﴾
True sovereignty, that Day, is for the Most Merciful. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day.
الْمُلْكُ يَوْمَيِذٍ الْحَقُّ لِلرَّحْمَنِ
The sovereignty on that Day will be the true (sovereignty) of the Most Gracious,
This is like the Ayah,
لِّمَنِ الْمُلْكُ الْيَوْمَ لِلَّهِ الْوَحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ
Whose is the kingdom this Day:It is Allah’s, the One, the Irresistible! (40:16)
In the Sahih it says:
أَنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى يَطْوِي السَّمَوَاتِ بِيَمِينِهِ وَيَأْخُذُ الاَْرَضِينَ بِيَدِهِ الاُْخْرَى ثُمَّ يَقُولُ
أَنَا الْمَلِكُ أَنَا الدَّيَّانُ أَيْنَ مُلُوكُ الاَْرْضِ
أَيْنَ الْجَبَّارُونَ
أَيْنَ الْمُتَكَبِّرُونَ
Allah, may He be exalted, will fold up the heavens in His Right Hand, and will take the earths in His other Hand, then He will say:
“I am the Sovereign, I am the Judge.
Where are the kings of the earth?
Where are the tyrants Where are the arrogant?”
وَكَانَ يَوْمًا عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ عَسِيرًا
and it will be a hard Day for the disbelievers.
means it will be very difficult, because it will be the Day of justice and the decisive judgement, as Allah says:
فَذَلِكَ يَوْمَيِذٍ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ
عَلَى الْكَـفِرِينَ غَيْرُ يَسِيرٍ
Truly, that Day will be a hard Day — Far from easy for the disbelievers! (74:9-10)
This is how the disbelievers will be on the Day of Resurrection.
As for the believers, Allah says:
لَا يَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الااٌّكْبَرُ
The greatest terror will not grieve them.
Then Allah says:
وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلً
25:27
وَ یَوۡمَ یَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلٰی یَدَیۡہِ یَقُوۡلُ یٰلَیۡتَنِی اتَّخَذۡتُ مَعَ الرَّسُوۡلِ سَبِیۡلًا ﴿۲۷﴾
And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, “Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way.
And (remember) the Day when the wrongdoer will bite at his hands, he will say:”O! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger.”
Here Allah tells us of the regret felt by the wrongdoer who rejected the path of the Messenger and what he brought from Allah of clear truth concerning which there is no doubt, and followed another path. When the Day of Resurrection comes, he will feel regret but his regret will avail him nothing, and he will bite on his hands in sorrow and grief.
Whether this Ayah was revealed concerning Uqbah bin Abi Mu`it or someone else among the doomed, it applies to every wrongdoer, as Allah says:
يَوْمَ تُقَلَّبُ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِى النَّارِ
On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, (33:66)
As mentioned in those two Ayat every wrongdoer will feel the ultimate regret on the Day of Resurrection, and will bite at his hands, saying:
يَا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا
يَا وَيْلَتَى لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا
25:28
یٰوَیۡلَتٰی لَیۡتَنِیۡ لَمۡ اَتَّخِذۡ فُلَانًا خَلِیۡلًا ﴿۲۸﴾
Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend.
O! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger. Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as an intimate friend!
meaning, the one among the propagators of misguidance who diverted him from true guidance and led him to follow the path of misguidance, whether this refers to Umayyah bin Khalaf or his brother Ubayy bin Khalaf, or to someone else
25:29
لَقَدۡ اَضَلَّنِیۡ عَنِ الذِّکۡرِ بَعۡدَ اِذۡ جَآءَنِیۡ ؕ وَ کَانَ الشَّیۡطٰنُ لِلۡاِنۡسَانِ خَذُوۡلًا ﴿۲۹﴾
He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter.”
لَقَدْ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ الذِّكْرِ
He indeed led me astray from the Reminder,
means the Qur’an,
بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءنِي
after it had come to me.
means, after it had reached me.
Allah says:
وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِلِْنسَانِ خَذُولاً
And Shaytan is to man ever a deserter (in the hour of need).
meaning, he leads him away from the truth and diverts him from it, and uses him for the purposes of falsehood and calls him to it
25:30
وَ قَالَ الرَّسُوۡلُ یٰرَبِّ اِنَّ قَوۡمِی اتَّخَذُوۡا ہٰذَا الۡقُرۡاٰنَ مَہۡجُوۡرًا ﴿۳۰﴾
And the Messenger has said, “O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’an as [a thing] abandoned.”
The Messenger will complain against His Opponents
Allah tells:
وَقَالَ الرَّسُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوا هَذَا الْقُرْانَ مَهْجُورًا
And the Messenger will say:”O my Lord! Verily, my people deserted this Qur’an.”
Allah tells how His Messenger and Prophet Muhammad will say:”O my Lord! Verily, my people deserted this Qur’an.”
The idolators would not listen to the Qur’an, as Allah says:
وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَا تَسْمَعُواْ لِهَـذَا الْقُرْءَانِ وَالْغَوْاْ فِيهِ
And those who disbelieve say:”Listen not to this Qur’an, and make noise in the midst of it.” (41:26)
When he would recite Qur’an to them, they would talk nonsense or speak about something else, so that they would not hear it.
This is a form of forsaking it and rejecting it, and not believing in it is the same as forsaking it, and not pondering its meanings and trying to understand it is the same as forsaking it, and not acting upon it and following its commandments and heeding its prohibitions is the same as forsaking it, and turning away from it in favor of poetry or other words or songs or idle talk or some other way is the same as forsaking it.
We ask Allah, the Most Generous, the Bestower of bounty, the One Who is able to do what He wills, to keep us safe from doing that which earns His wrath and to use us to do that which will earn His pleasure of preserving and understanding His Book, following its commandments night and day in the manner which He loves and which pleases Him, for He is Generous and Kind
25:31
وَ کَذٰلِکَ جَعَلۡنَا لِکُلِّ نَبِیٍّ عَدُوًّا مِّنَ الۡمُجۡرِمِیۡنَ ؕ وَ کَفٰی بِرَبِّکَ ہَادِیًا وَّ نَصِیۡرًا ﴿۳۱﴾
And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper.
وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا مِّنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ
Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy among the criminals.
means, `just as there is for you, O Muhammad, those people who scorned the Qur’an, so in all the previous nations did Allah make for every Prophet an enemy among the criminals, who called people to their misguidance and disbelief,’ as Allah says:
وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نِبِىٍّ عَدُوّاً شَيَـطِينَ الاِنْسِ وَالْجِنِّ
And so We have appointed for every Prophet enemies — Shayatin among mankind and Jinn, (6:112),
as stated in these two Ayat.
Allah says here:
وَكَفَى بِرَبِّكَ هَادِيًا وَنَصِيرًا
But sufficient is your Lord as a Guide and Helper.
meaning, for the one who follows His Messenger and believes in His Book, Allah will be his Guide and Helper in this world and the Hereafter.
Allah says
هَادِيًا وَنَصِيرًا
(a Guide and Helper), because the idolators used to try to prevent people from following the Qur’an lest anyone be guided by it. They wanted their way to prevail over the way of the Qur’an.
Allah says:
وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا مِّنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ
Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy among the criminals
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