{ "number": 56, "slug": "waqiah", "name": "Al-Waqi‘ah", "arabicName": "الواقعة", "meaning": "The Event", "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "THE EVENT, THE GIFTS OF LIFE & THE RETURN", "overview": "Three groups face the inevitable Event. Gardens and warning are followed by questions about birth, crops, water, and fire, then an affirmation of revelation and the intimate moment when life returns beyond human control.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_56.json" }, { "title": "M. M. 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"title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=56&verse=61" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=56&verse=92" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=56&verse=1" }, { "title": "Classification and overview · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/56/info" }, { "title": "The guarded Book and gratitude · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/al-waqiah/79/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "622 CE Hijrah boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "The Event arrives", "An arrival that cannot be denied", "Worldly rankings overturned", "The earth shaken", "Mountains reduced", "Scattered dust", "Three groups introduced", "The people of the right", "The people of the left", "The foremost", "Brought near", "Gardens of delight", "Many from earlier people", "Some from later people", "Couches of honor", "Facing one another", "Attendants in the scene", "Vessels from a pure spring", "Delight without its usual harm", "Fruit freely chosen", "Food according to desire", "Honored companionship", "Like protected pearls", "A response to lived deeds", "Speech without harm", "Peace repeated", "The right-hand group revisited", "Lote trees without thorns", "Clustered plantains", "Shade spread wide", "Flowing water", "Abundant fruit", "Accessible and unrestricted", "Raised places of rest", "A renewed creation", "Purity in companionship", "Love and companionship", "For the people of the right", "Many from earlier generations", "Many from later generations", "The left-hand group revisited", "Scorching wind and water", "The shadow of smoke", "No coolness or refreshment", "Luxury without responsibility", "Persistent grave wrongdoing", "Resurrection dismissed", "And the ancestors?", "Earlier and later together", "An appointed gathering", "The deniers addressed", "The tree named Zaqqum", "A terrible filling", "Boiling water follows", "A thirst that does not bring relief", "The welcome on that Day", "Begin with your own creation", "Consider the beginning of life", "Who brings creation about?", "Death measured among people", "A form beyond present knowledge", "Remember the first creation", "Look at what you cultivate", "Who makes growth possible?", "A harvest could become chaff", "The burden of loss", "Deprived of the expected yield", "Notice the water you drink", "Who sends it from the cloud?", "Drinkable water and gratitude", "Consider the fire you kindle", "The tree behind the flame", "A reminder and a practical benefit", "Respond with glorification", "The positions of the stars", "The weight of the oath", "A noble Quran", "A guarded Book", "The purified and the guarded record", "The source of revelation", "Taking the message lightly", "Denial in place of gratitude", "At the moment of dying", "The witnesses can only watch", "A nearness beyond their sight", "The claim of independence tested", "Can the departing life be returned?", "The near ones recalled", "Relief, provision, and delight", "The right-hand people recalled", "A greeting of peace", "The rejecting response recalled", "A severe welcome", "The Fire in the warning", "Certain truth", "Close with the Lord’s praise" ], "notes": [ "The opening names an event whose arrival will overturn ordinary expectations. Its precise calendar date is not supplied. The chapter will explain its significance through transformed landscapes, differing human responses, and the realities of creation.", "The Event’s occurrence admits no denial once it arrives. This differs from the arguments people can maintain beforehand. The verse places present disagreement beside a future reality that does not depend on the audience’s approval.", "Some are brought low and others raised. The brief statement unsettles rankings based on current influence or possessions. The following division into groups makes responsibility, rather than worldly appearance, central to the account being presented.", "A violent shaking removes the earth’s familiar stability. The scene concerns the promised Event rather than a named historical earthquake. The reader should not identify a present disaster with this passage without evidence the text does not provide.", "Mountains, ordinarily symbols of firmness, are ground down. Their place in the opening magnifies the scale of change. What appears most permanent in an everyday landscape cannot serve as a refuge from the Event.", "The mountains’ reduction ends in dispersed dust. This completes the reversal from solidity to fragility begun in the previous verse. The scene now gives way to a different question: how people stand within the account.", "Humanity is described through three groups. The chapter will unfold their contrasting conditions before returning to creation and revelation. These are categories within a future account, not labels for assigning named people a final destiny today.", "A question introduces those associated with the right hand. The repeated wording creates anticipation before their condition is described later. The expression belongs to the chapter’s account of judgment, rather than a judgment about ordinary handedness.", "The corresponding question introduces those associated with the left hand. The contrast signals different outcomes in the coming account. It does not attach moral worth to a person’s natural preference for using either hand.", "The foremost are announced with repetition, giving their position special emphasis. The next verses connect that distinction with nearness and delight. The text does not supply a list of names by which readers could allocate this rank.", "Those foremost are described as brought near. The wording emphasizes an honored relationship rather than a measurable earthly distance. The following garden imagery expresses welcome without giving the unseen a map or a physical divine figure.", "Gardens give the first description of the promised welcome. This image belongs to the hereafter within the chapter’s narrative. An earthly garden can help evoke delight, but it cannot claim to reproduce that reality exactly.", "A multitude from earlier people is included among the foremost. The statement introduces a comparison across time without naming every generation. It does not establish a numerical census or a modern population estimate for the hereafter.", "A smaller group from later people completes the comparison about the foremost. The chapter will give a different pairing for those of the right hand. Keeping those contexts distinct prevents the two descriptions from being confused.", "Fine couches begin a sequence of ease and hospitality. Their purpose in the passage is to convey the honored condition of the foremost. The illustration need not claim exact materials or dimensions beyond the translated description.", "The people recline facing each other, adding companionship to the scene of ease. The arrangement suggests an untroubled gathering. It contrasts with the isolation and distress later associated with the chapter’s warning to those who reject.", "Attendants serve within the promised welcome. The verse describes a feature of the hereafter rather than an identifiable historical household. The artwork keeps attention on hospitality and setting, without inventing biographies for the figures mentioned.", "Bowls, ewers, and a cup make the scene of provision concrete. The spring is described as pure in Pickthall’s rendering. These are images of abundance and welcome, without an asserted earthly location or surviving ceremonial vessel.", "The drink is described without headache or loss of sense. The verse distinguishes the promised provision from harmful effects familiar in earthly experience. The comparison is descriptive of the hereafter, not advice about consuming intoxicants now.", "Fruit is offered according to preference. Choice and sufficiency contribute to the scene of welcome. The brief verse continues an account of delight rather than providing an exhaustive list of the produce within these gardens.", "The provision includes the flesh of birds as desired. The emphasis remains hospitality and satisfaction. Within the surrounding passage, such details help convey ease after the overwhelming account of the Event with which the chapter began.", "Companionship is described with beauty in the translated wording. The passage places it among the forms of welcome in the hereafter. The illustration evokes the garden setting without turning that promise into a sensual portrait.", "The comparison with hidden pearls conveys preciousness and protection. It continues the description of companionship rather than naming an earthly object to be located. The image should remain a literary comparison within the promised scene.", "The promised welcome is connected with what people used to do. This line gathers the preceding details into an account of consequence. Delight is not presented as disconnected from the responsibilities and choices of earthly life.", "The absence of empty talk and recrimination adds a social dimension to the gardens. Peace includes how people speak to one another. The verse invites reflection on the burden harmful language places on ordinary relationships.", "Peace is the speech heard in this setting. Its repetition completes the description of the foremost with an atmosphere of safety. The chapter’s welcome is therefore more than possessions: it includes a transformed quality of relationship.", "The question about those of the right hand returns, now introducing their full description. Repetition guides the listener through the chapter’s structure. Their welcome will be expressed through shade, water, fruit, and companionship.", "The garden’s trees are described without the thorns that would hinder comfort. A familiar feature of the landscape is transformed into ease. The verse offers a specific image without identifying a species at a modern site.", "Pickthall renders this garden feature as clustered plantains. It continues the picture of plentiful growth around the welcomed people. The reader preserves that translation without treating the verse as a botanical inventory of an earthly garden.", "Spreading shade gives the scene shelter and relief. Its importance becomes clearer beside the scorching conditions described later. The contrast works through experiences familiar to earthly life while the gardens themselves remain part of the unseen promise.", "Water flows freely within the garden scene. The detail joins shade and fruit in conveying sufficiency. It anticipates the later questions about drinking water, where the audience is asked to recognize its dependence upon provision.", "Fruit appears in plenty, continuing the picture of welcome. The next verse clarifies that this abundance is accessible rather than merely visible. The passage gives attention to receiving a benefit, not simply being surrounded by wealth.", "The fruit is neither withheld nor beyond reach. Access completes abundance: what is present can actually be enjoyed. The verse invites a distinction between impressive resources and provision that genuinely meets the needs of those around it.", "Raised couches add rest and honor to the garden’s shade and water. The description continues a scene of welcome. No physical measurements are given, and the artwork does not claim an exact construction of unseen furnishings.", "A new creation is affirmed within the account of companionship. The text moves beyond the limitations of present earthly conditions. The verse gives no process or timetable that could be illustrated as an observed biological event.", "The description continues with companions made virgins in Pickthall’s rendering. It belongs to the promised renewed creation of the preceding verse. The reading keeps the wording while the artwork remains focused on gardens and nonsexual hospitality.", "Affection and companionship complete this short sequence. The English rendering emphasizes relational closeness rather than a catalogue of physical features. Read with the surrounding verses, the promise is part of an untroubled condition of welcome.", "The phrase identifies the group to whom this garden description belongs. It closes the sequence before the chapter returns to earlier and later people. The repeated category helps the listener keep the three groups distinct.", "A multitude of earlier people is included among those of the right hand. This pairing differs from the earlier description of the foremost. The verse therefore needs to be read with its own immediate group and context.", "A multitude of later people completes the pairing for the right-hand group. The welcome reaches across generations. No exact numbers or named contemporary communities are supplied from which a reader could construct a census of salvation.", "The third description begins with the question about those of the left hand. The familiar form now introduces a severe contrast. The chapter moves from welcome toward a warning whose moral setting will be explained shortly.", "Wind and water, which can sustain earthly life, appear here as scorching and scalding. The reversal contrasts with the preceding gardens. The scene concerns judgment, without identifying an earthly desert or spring as that destination.", "A shadow appears, but it is the shadow of black smoke. The detail initially resembles the earlier promise of shade while reversing its benefit. The following verse makes that lack of relief explicit for the listener.", "The shadow gives neither coolness nor comfort. The verse completes the contrast with the spreading shade of the welcomed group. The warning then turns from conditions to the earlier conduct associated with this outcome.", "The people described had lived indulgently in luxury. In the surrounding account, ease becomes culpable through the response that accompanies it. The verse should not be isolated into a claim that every comfortable life has the same destiny.", "Persistence in grave wrongdoing supplies a further part of the moral setting. The next verses add denial of resurrection. The passage therefore describes an entrenched response rather than assigning this outcome to a single ordinary mistake.", "The speakers ask whether they will be raised after becoming dust and bones. Their question expresses disbelief within the narrative. The chapter will answer by drawing attention to the first creation and familiar forms of provision.", "The objection extends to earlier generations. The brevity continues the preceding question rather than introducing a separate speaker or event. The answer that follows includes people from every period within the same appointed gathering.", "The messenger is told to answer that earlier and later people alike are included. This directly addresses the objection about ancestors. The verse prepares a universal gathering rather than a privilege confined to one generation.", "All are brought together for an appointed Day. The appointment affirms certainty without revealing the date. Nothing in the verse permits converting its promise into a countdown or a prediction tied to contemporary events.", "The address turns directly toward those who stray and deny. The following warning is therefore linked to a described response to the message. It does not provide a list of living people for readers to condemn.", "Zaqqum is named as food within the warning. The text treats it as part of the hereafter rather than an ordinary plant to identify. Its imagery is not presented as a discovered species or a mappable grove.", "The described people fill themselves from that tree. This intensifies the reversal of the earlier hospitality and freely chosen fruit. The verse remains within the account of judgment, without inviting a graphic illustration of suffering.", "Boiling water follows the food, continuing the warning’s reversal of refreshment. The same basic human needs appear in both garden and punishment scenes. What differs is the condition in which those needs are met.", "The comparison evokes the urgent drinking of camels. It intensifies the scene without supplying a medical account of thirst. The passage is describing the severity of the promised outcome, not an earthly animal study.", "The word welcome closes the warning with a stark reversal of hospitality. The Day of Judgment is named as its setting. The next verse changes direction, returning the audience to the evidence of its own creation.", "The audience is reminded that it has been created and asked to acknowledge the truth. The argument now moves through ordinary experience. Human origin becomes the first point in reconsidering the possibility of being raised again.", "The question draws attention to the reproductive material people emit. It begins an argument about dependence rather than offering a complete biological description. The next verse asks who brings a new human life into being.", "Human participation is distinguished from the power that creates. The question challenges self-sufficiency at the very beginning of life. Its place in the passage supports the possibility of renewed creation after death.", "Death is apportioned, and divine power cannot be outrun. The verse extends the argument from beginning to ending. Neither control over circumstances nor knowledge of bodily processes makes a person independent of mortality.", "The power to replace and bring about an unfamiliar creation is affirmed. Present experience is not treated as the limit of possibility. The verse supplies no detailed anatomy or sequence for the transformed condition.", "The first creation is already known as a starting point for reflection. The challenge is to draw an implication from that familiar beginning. The argument concerns resurrection’s possibility rather than a claim to know all its details.", "The cultivated field becomes the next subject of questioning. Human labor is visible, but the crop also depends on conditions people do not command. The verse invites attention to an everyday livelihood and its limits.", "The distinction between tending and causing growth is pressed upon the audience. The question does not erase agricultural effort. It asks whether that effort alone explains the life and provision emerging from the ground.", "The crop could be reduced to chaff, exposing the vulnerability behind expectation. The imagined response introduces the next two verses. This possibility should not become a claim that a particular modern crop failure is divine punishment.", "The speakers recognize a loss that has left them burdened. Their words belong to the imagined failed harvest in the previous verse. The scene exposes how quickly anticipated gain can become a sense of financial ruin.", "The realization deepens from burden to deprivation. What had seemed almost secured is absent. This brief response completes the harvest example before the chapter turns to another daily necessity that people receive rather than independently produce.", "Drinking water is placed before the audience as a matter for reflection. Its familiarity can conceal its importance. The question asks people to reconsider the provision on which their bodies and ordinary routines continually depend.", "The cloud’s water is contrasted with human inability to command its descent. The argument continues the chapter’s questions about provision. It is not a prediction for a particular region’s rainfall or a detailed meteorological model.", "The possibility of bitter water highlights the gift of what can be drunk. The question turns recognition toward gratitude. Quantity alone is insufficient: provision must also be suitable for the life that depends upon it.", "Fire becomes the next familiar resource placed under examination. The audience can kindle it, yet the material that makes it possible has an origin. The question prepares the distinction between using a resource and creating it.", "The tree from which fire is kindled redirects attention toward the living source of fuel. Human use depends on prior growth. The verse does not identify a single species or describe a modern energy system.", "Fire is named as both a reminder and a benefit for people in the wilderness. The pairing joins reflection with practical need. Ordinary resources can sustain life while also prompting recognition of dependence and responsibility.", "The sequence of creation, crops, water, and fire ends in glorification. Reflection is directed toward a present response. The verse gathers the everyday examples into acknowledgment rather than leaving them as detached observations about the world.", "An oath by the stars’ positions introduces the section on revelation. Their scale and order prepare the listener for the message’s seriousness. The verse does not identify a special modern astronomical discovery as its exclusive meaning.", "The oath’s greatness is emphasized before its subject is stated. The delay gives the affirmation that follows greater force. The audience is asked to recognize a significance that exceeds casual treatment of the recitation.", "The recitation is affirmed as noble. This is the subject toward which the preceding oath has been building. The chapter now defends the message that has described the Event and questioned the audience about creation.", "The Quran is associated with a protected or hidden Book. The description concerns the dignity and preservation of revelation. It is not an archaeological claim about a manuscript recovered from a particular cave or building.", "The purified are associated with touching the guarded Book. Ibn Kathir records an interpretation concerning the heavenly record and angels. This note attributes that explanation without turning the verse into a complete ruling about handling earthly books.", "The source is stated as the Lord of the worlds. This completes the affirmation begun with the oath by the stars. Revelation is presented as more than a human response to the fears and hopes described earlier.", "The audience is questioned about treating this message with disregard. The challenge follows the affirmation of its source and dignity. The issue is whether the hearer will respond seriously to what the chapter has placed before it.", "Pickthall’s rendering connects provision with denial in a challenging phrase. Ibn Kathir discusses gratitude within its explanation. The question asks what response people make to the gifts and guidance on which their lives depend.", "The scene turns to a person approaching death. The soul reaching the throat belongs to the passage’s description of that moment. The verse introduces a confrontation with human limits rather than instructions for medical assessment.", "Those nearby look on, unable by observation alone to control what is happening. The scene makes mortality personal after the broader arguments from creation. It does not dismiss the value of care or medical treatment.", "Divine nearness is affirmed beyond what the witnesses perceive. The verse places their limited view within a larger knowledge. The artwork can suggest a quiet human setting while leaving the soul and unseen presence unpictured.", "A conditional challenge asks what would follow if people were beyond divine authority. It must be read with the next verse. The point is the limit of the independence the audience might otherwise claim.", "The challenge asks the witnesses to return the departing life if their claim is true. Its force lies in the dependence exposed by death. It does not instruct someone to withhold ordinary care from a dying person.", "The account returns to those brought near, the first group described earlier. The ending now gathers the chapter’s classifications around an individual’s return. The shift connects the opening cosmic Event with the destiny of a single life.", "The person brought near is met with relief, provision, and a garden of delight. This is the first outcome in the closing sequence. The description echoes the earlier welcome rather than identifying an earthly place of burial.", "The next condition recalls those of the right hand. The ending repeats the earlier structure in a shorter form. The text gives a category within the account, not a means of judging a particular deceased person.", "Peace characterizes the welcome for the right-hand group. The greeting recalls the peaceful speech described earlier in the gardens. This repetition gives the chapter’s promise a relational character beyond its images of abundant provision.", "The final contrasting condition concerns one who rejects and strays. The verse links the coming warning to that described response. It does not grant observers knowledge of the ultimate account of a named person at death.", "Boiling water returns as the first feature of the warning’s welcome. The repetition gathers the earlier punishment scene into the closing account. It functions as a contrast to relief and peace without requiring graphic visual treatment.", "The Fire completes the third outcome in the closing sequence. The text maintains the seriousness of consequence alongside the earlier promises. The scene remains a matter of revelation, not an earthly destination to locate or reconstruct.", "The account is affirmed as certain truth. This declaration gathers the Event, the signs in creation, the source of revelation, and the limits exposed at death. The chapter’s argument reaches its final statement of confidence.", "The final instruction repeats the call to glorify the Lord’s name. After the immense Event and intimate scene of dying, the response returns to worship. The listener can begin that acknowledgment in the present." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 26, "title": "The Event and those brought near", "summary": "Earth and mountains are transformed as three groups are introduced; the foremost receive a welcome characterized by abundance and peace.", "reflection": "What would it mean to be foremost in responsibility rather than display?" }, { "start": 27, "end": 40, "title": "Shade, water, and the people of the right", "summary": "Accessible fruit, spreading shade, flowing water, and companionship describe the second group’s welcome across generations.", "reflection": "How can the resources around you become real comfort for someone else?" }, { "start": 41, "end": 56, "title": "The left-hand warning and the cost of denial", "summary": "The loss of refreshment contrasts with the gardens, while indulgence, persistent wrongdoing, and denial supply the warning’s context.", "reflection": "When does comfort make it easier to ignore a serious responsibility?" }, { "start": 57, "end": 74, "title": "Birth, seeds, drinking water, and fire", "summary": "Familiar beginnings and provisions become questions about dependence, gratitude, and the possibility of renewed creation.", "reflection": "Which ordinary necessity have you recently received without noticing its value?" }, { "start": 75, "end": 82, "title": "The stars and a noble revelation", "summary": "A weighty oath leads to an affirmation of the Quran’s source and a challenge to disregard and denial.", "reflection": "What changes when you give a serious message your full attention?" }, { "start": 83, "end": 96, "title": "The departing life and the final return", "summary": "Human limits become visible at death as the three outcomes return, followed by certainty and glorification.", "reflection": "How can awareness of mortality clarify the way you use today?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "Al-Waqi‘ah is classified as Makkan. The year marks the Hijrah boundary, not a precise revelation date or the date of the future Event.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "Earlier and later generations", "year": null, "body": "The chapter describes people from earlier and later times within its groups. It gives no census, list of individual names, or dated boundary between those generations.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm" }, { "title": "The appointed Event · future date undisclosed", "year": null, "body": "The Day is certain and appointed in the chapter’s account, but its calendar date is not given. The timeline therefore supplies no countdown.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · setting of the revelation period", "body": "The Makkan classification supplies the broad historical setting of the address. No exact gathering place or original building is established for this chapter.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/56/info", "image": 4 }, { "id": "field-water", "name": "The cultivated field and drinking water", "body": "Verses 63–70 use everyday cultivation and water as signs for reflection. The scene is a thematic landscape, not a named farm or verified ancient well.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm", "image": 3 }, { "id": "gardens", "name": "The promised gardens · beyond an earthly map", "body": "The garden descriptions belong to the hereafter. Shade, fruit, and water guide the illustrations without claiming to reproduce unseen places exactly.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "stars", "name": "The sky and the positions of the stars", "body": "The oath draws attention to the stars without identifying one modern observatory, sky event, or scientific discovery. The night landscape supports reading rather than a claim of photographed revelation.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm", "image": 4 } ], "people": [ { "id": "foremost", "title": "The foremost · those brought near", "body": "The first group receives an account of honored welcome and peace. The surah describes a rank and response rather than a list of historical figures whose portraits could establish that standing.", "verse": 10 }, { "id": "right-hand", "title": "The people of the right", "body": "Earlier and later people share this welcome of shade, water, fruit, and peace. The category belongs to judgment and does not attach moral meaning to ordinary physical handedness.", "verse": 27 }, { "id": "left-hand", "title": "The people of the left", "body": "The warning connects their outcome with indulgence, persistent wrongdoing, and denial of resurrection. The reader does not assign this category to named living or recently deceased people.", "verse": 41 }, { "id": "messenger", "title": "Muhammad · addressed at the chapter’s close", "body": "The closing call directs the messenger to glorify the Lord’s name. His role in conveying the reminder is discussed without a portrait or an invented scene of revelation.", "verse": 96 } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan argument about resurrection", "body": "The introduction classifies the chapter as Makkan and highlights its confrontation with denial of resurrection. No proposed precise revelation order is required to follow that argument.", "source": "https://quran.com/56/info" }, { "title": "Why the ordinary world occupies the center", "body": "The questions about birth, cultivation, drinking water, and fire connect the future account with things the audience already knows. These examples are read as signs, not dated laboratory predictions.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm" }, { "title": "The protected Book in commentary", "body": "Ibn Kathir records an interpretation of the purified in verse 79 as angels associated with the heavenly record. The reader attributes that view and does not attempt to depict them or summarize all later legal discussions.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-waqiah/79/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "One structure from the beginning to the end", "body": "The three groups introduced near the opening return in the closing scene. That repetition connects the immense Event with the individual experience of mortality and accountability.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/056.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan. The 622 CE marker is a period boundary only. The Event and the gardens are not mapped or dated; the dying scene does not portray the soul or unseen beings. Full Pickthall wording is retained throughout.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "إِذَا وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ", "translation": "When the event befalleth -" }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "لَيْسَ لِوَقْعَتِهَا كَاذِبَةٌ", "translation": "There is no denying that it will befall -" }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "خَافِضَةٌۭ رَّافِعَةٌ", "translation": "Abasing (some), exalting (others);" }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "إِذَا رُجَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ رَجًّۭا", "translation": "When the earth is shaken with a shock" }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّۭا", "translation": "And the hills are ground to powder" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "فَكَانَتْ هَبَآءًۭ مُّنۢبَثًّۭا", "translation": "So that they become a scattered dust," }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَكُنتُمْ أَزْوَٰجًۭا ثَلَٰثَةًۭ", "translation": "And ye will be three kinds:" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "فَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ مَآ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ", "translation": "(First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand ?" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ مَآ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ", "translation": "And (then) those on the left hand; what of those on the left hand ?" }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ", "translation": "And the foremost in the race, the foremost in the race:" }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ", "translation": "Those are they who will be brought nigh" }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "فِى جَنَّٰتِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ", "translation": "In gardens of delight;" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "ثُلَّةٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "A multitude of those of old" }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "وَقَلِيلٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ", "translation": "And a few of those of later time." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍۢ مَّوْضُونَةٍۢ", "translation": "On lined couches," }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "مُّتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَيْهَا مُتَقَٰبِلِينَ", "translation": "Reclining therein face to face." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "يَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَٰنٌۭ مُّخَلَّدُونَ", "translation": "There wait on them immortal youths" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "بِأَكْوَابٍۢ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍۢ مِّن مَّعِينٍۢ", "translation": "With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "لَّا يُصَدَّعُونَ عَنْهَا وَلَا يُنزِفُونَ", "translation": "Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness," }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَفَٰكِهَةٍۢ مِّمَّا يَتَخَيَّرُونَ", "translation": "And fruit that they prefer" }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "وَلَحْمِ طَيْرٍۢ مِّمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ", "translation": "And flesh of fowls that they desire." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "وَحُورٌ عِينٌۭ", "translation": "And (there are) fair ones with wide, lovely eyes," }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "كَأَمْثَٰلِ ٱللُّؤْلُؤِ ٱلْمَكْنُونِ", "translation": "Like unto hidden pearls," }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ", "translation": "Reward for what they used to do." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "لَا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًۭا وَلَا تَأْثِيمًا", "translation": "There hear they no vain speaking nor recrimination" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "إِلَّا قِيلًۭا سَلَٰمًۭا سَلَٰمًۭا", "translation": "(Naught) but the saying: Peace, (and again) Peace." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْيَمِينِ مَآ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْيَمِينِ", "translation": "And those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand ?" }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "فِى سِدْرٍۢ مَّخْضُودٍۢ", "translation": "Among thornless lote-trees" }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "وَطَلْحٍۢ مَّنضُودٍۢ", "translation": "And clustered plantains," }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "وَظِلٍّۢ مَّمْدُودٍۢ", "translation": "And spreading shade," }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَمَآءٍۢ مَّسْكُوبٍۢ", "translation": "And water gushing," }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَفَٰكِهَةٍۢ كَثِيرَةٍۢ", "translation": "And fruit in plenty" }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "لَّا مَقْطُوعَةٍۢ وَلَا مَمْنُوعَةٍۢ", "translation": "Neither out of reach nor yet forbidden," }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَفُرُشٍۢ مَّرْفُوعَةٍ", "translation": "And raised couches;" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَٰهُنَّ إِنشَآءًۭ", "translation": "Lo! We have created them a (new) creation" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "فَجَعَلْنَٰهُنَّ أَبْكَارًا", "translation": "And made them virgins," }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "عُرُبًا أَتْرَابًۭا", "translation": "Lovers, friends," }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "لِّأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْيَمِينِ", "translation": "For those on the right hand;" }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "ثُلَّةٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "A multitude of those of old" }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "وَثُلَّةٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ", "translation": "And a multitude of those of later time." }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَأَصْحَٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ مَآ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ", "translation": "And those on the left hand: What of those on the left hand ?" }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "فِى سَمُومٍۢ وَحَمِيمٍۢ", "translation": "In scorching wind and scalding water" }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "وَظِلٍّۢ مِّن يَحْمُومٍۢ", "translation": "And shadow of black smoke," }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "لَّا بَارِدٍۢ وَلَا كَرِيمٍ", "translation": "Neither cool nor refreshing." }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُتْرَفِينَ", "translation": "Lo! heretofore they were effete with luxury" }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "وَكَانُوا۟ يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى ٱلْحِنثِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ", "translation": "And used to persist in the awful sin." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَكَانُوا۟ يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ", "translation": "And they used to say: When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised again," }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "أَوَءَابَآؤُنَا ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ", "translation": "And also our forefathers ?" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ وَٱلْءَاخِرِينَ", "translation": "Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Lo! those of old and those of later time" }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "لَمَجْمُوعُونَ إِلَىٰ مِيقَٰتِ يَوْمٍۢ مَّعْلُومٍۢ", "translation": "Will all be brought together to the tryst of an appointed day." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلضَّآلُّونَ ٱلْمُكَذِّبُونَ", "translation": "Then lo! ye, the erring, the deniers," }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "لَءَاكِلُونَ مِن شَجَرٍۢ مِّن زَقُّومٍۢ", "translation": "Ye verily will eat of a tree called Zaqqum" }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "فَمَالِـُٔونَ مِنْهَا ٱلْبُطُونَ", "translation": "And will fill your bellies therewith;" }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "فَشَٰرِبُونَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ ٱلْحَمِيمِ", "translation": "And thereon ye will drink of boiling water," }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "فَشَٰرِبُونَ شُرْبَ ٱلْهِيمِ", "translation": "Drinking even as the camel drinketh." }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "هَٰذَا نُزُلُهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلدِّينِ", "translation": "This will be their welcome on the Day of Judgment." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ فَلَوْلَا تُصَدِّقُونَ", "translation": "We created you. Will ye then admit the truth ?" }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "أَفَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تُمْنُونَ", "translation": "Have ye seen that which ye emit ?" }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "ءَأَنتُمْ تَخْلُقُونَهُۥٓ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْخَٰلِقُونَ", "translation": "Do ye create it or are We the Creator ?" }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ", "translation": "We mete out death among you, and We are not to be outrun," }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ أَمْثَٰلَكُمْ وَنُنشِئَكُمْ فِى مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "That We may transfigure you and make you what ye know not." }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ ٱلنَّشْأَةَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ فَلَوْلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And verily ye know the first creation. Why, then, do ye not reflect ?" }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "أَفَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تَحْرُثُونَ", "translation": "Have ye seen that which ye cultivate ?" }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "ءَأَنتُمْ تَزْرَعُونَهُۥٓ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلزَّٰرِعُونَ", "translation": "Is it ye who foster it, or are We the Fosterer ?" }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "لَوْ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلْنَٰهُ حُطَٰمًۭا فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُونَ", "translation": "If We willed, We verily could make it chaff, then would ye cease not to exclaim:" }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "إِنَّا لَمُغْرَمُونَ", "translation": "Lo! we are laden with debt!" }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ", "translation": "Nay, but we are deprived!" }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱلْمَآءَ ٱلَّذِى تَشْرَبُونَ", "translation": "Have ye observed the water which ye drink ?" }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "ءَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْمُنزِلُونَ", "translation": "Is it ye who shed it from the raincloud, or are We the Shedder ?" }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "لَوْ نَشَآءُ جَعَلْنَٰهُ أُجَاجًۭا فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ", "translation": "If We willed We verily could make it bitter. Why then, give ye not thanks ?" }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱلنَّارَ ٱلَّتِى تُورُونَ", "translation": "Have ye observed the fire which ye strike out;" }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "ءَأَنتُمْ أَنشَأْتُمْ شَجَرَتَهَآ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْمُنشِـُٔونَ", "translation": "Was it ye who made the tree thereof to grow, or were We the grower ?" }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "نَحْنُ جَعَلْنَٰهَا تَذْكِرَةًۭ وَمَتَٰعًۭا لِّلْمُقْوِينَ", "translation": "We, even We, appointed it a memorial and a comfort for the dwellers in the wilderness." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ", "translation": "Therefor (O Muhammad), praise the name of thy Lord, the Tremendous." }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "۞ فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِمَوَٰقِعِ ٱلنُّجُومِ", "translation": "Nay, I swear by the places of the stars -" }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "وَإِنَّهُۥ لَقَسَمٌۭ لَّوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عَظِيمٌ", "translation": "And lo! that verily is a tremendous oath, if ye but knew -" }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "إِنَّهُۥ لَقُرْءَانٌۭ كَرِيمٌۭ", "translation": "That (this) is indeed a noble Qur'an" }, { "n": 78, "arabic": "فِى كِتَٰبٍۢ مَّكْنُونٍۢ", "translation": "In a Book kept hidden" }, { "n": 79, "arabic": "لَّا يَمَسُّهُۥٓ إِلَّا ٱلْمُطَهَّرُونَ", "translation": "Which none toucheth save the purified," }, { "n": 80, "arabic": "تَنزِيلٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "A revelation from the Lord of the Worlds." }, { "n": 81, "arabic": "أَفَبِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَنتُم مُّدْهِنُونَ", "translation": "Is it this Statement that ye scorn," }, { "n": 82, "arabic": "وَتَجْعَلُونَ رِزْقَكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ تُكَذِّبُونَ", "translation": "And make denial thereof your livelihood ?" }, { "n": 83, "arabic": "فَلَوْلَآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلْحُلْقُومَ", "translation": "Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying)" }, { "n": 84, "arabic": "وَأَنتُمْ حِينَئِذٍۢ تَنظُرُونَ", "translation": "And ye are at that moment looking" }, { "n": 85, "arabic": "وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تُبْصِرُونَ", "translation": "- And We are nearer unto him than ye are, but ye see not -" }, { "n": 86, "arabic": "فَلَوْلَآ إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ", "translation": "Why then, if ye are not in bondage (unto Us)," }, { "n": 87, "arabic": "تَرْجِعُونَهَآ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ", "translation": "Do ye not force it back, if ye are truthful ?" }, { "n": 88, "arabic": "فَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ", "translation": "Thus if he is of those brought nigh," }, { "n": 89, "arabic": "فَرَوْحٌۭ وَرَيْحَانٌۭ وَجَنَّتُ نَعِيمٍۢ", "translation": "Then breath of life, and plenty, and a Garden of delight." }, { "n": 90, "arabic": "وَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْيَمِينِ", "translation": "And if he is of those on the right hand," }, { "n": 91, "arabic": "فَسَلَٰمٌۭ لَّكَ مِنْ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْيَمِينِ", "translation": "Then (the greeting) \"Peace be unto thee\" from those on the right hand." }, { "n": 92, "arabic": "وَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ", "translation": "But if he is of the rejecters, the erring," }, { "n": 93, "arabic": "فَنُزُلٌۭ مِّنْ حَمِيمٍۢ", "translation": "Then the welcome will be boiling water" }, { "n": 94, "arabic": "وَتَصْلِيَةُ جَحِيمٍ", "translation": "And roasting at hell-fire." }, { "n": 95, "arabic": "إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ حَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ", "translation": "Lo! this is certain truth." }, { "n": 96, "arabic": "فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ", "translation": "Therefor (O Muhammad) praise the name of thy Lord, the Tremendous." } ], "glosses": [ [ "When", "occurs", "the Event," ], [ "Not", "at its occurrence", "a denial" ], [ "Bringing down,", "raising up," ], [ "When", "will be shaken", "the earth", "(with) a shaking," ], [ "And will be crumbled", "the mountains", "(with awful) crumbling." ], [ "So they become", "dust particles", "dispersing." ], [ "And you will become", "kinds", "three." ], [ "Then (the) companions", "(of) the right,", "what", "(are the) companions", "(of) the right?" ], [ "And (the) companions", "(of) the left,", "what", "(are the) companions", "(of) the left?" ], [ "And the foremost", "(are) the foremost," ], [ "Those", "(are) the nearest ones." ], [ "In", "Gardens", "(of) Pleasure," ], [ "A company", "of", "the former (people)," ], [ "And a few", "of", "the later (people)," ], [ "On", "thrones", "decorated," ], [ "Reclining,", "on them", "facing each other." ], [ "Will circulate", "among them", "boys", "immortal," ], [ "With vessels", "and jugs", "and a cup", "from", "a flowing stream," ], [ "Not", "they will get headache", "therefrom", "and not", "they will get intoxicated" ], [ "And fruits", "of what", "they select," ], [ "And (the) flesh", "(of) fowls", "of what", "they desire." ], [ "And fair ones", "(with) large eyes," ], [ "Like", "pearls", "well-protected," ], [ "A reward", "for what", "they used (to)", "do." ], [ "Not", "they will hear", "therein", "vain talk", "and not", "sinful (speech)," ], [ "Except", "a saying,", "\"Peace,", "Peace.\"" ], [ "And (the) 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