إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ WHEN THE SUN is shrouded in darkness, (1) وَإِذَا النُّجُومُ انْكَدَرَتْ and when the stars lose their light, (2) وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ and when the mountains are made to vanish, (3) وَإِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ and when she-camels big with young, about to give birth, are left untended, (4) وَإِذَا الْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ and when all beasts are gathered together, (5) وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ and when the seas boil over, (6) وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ and when all human beings are coupled [with their deeds], (7) وَإِذَا الْمَوْءُودَةُ سُئِلَتْ and when the girl-child that was buried alive is made to ask (8) بِأَيِّ ذَنْبٍ قُتِلَتْ for what crime she had been slain, (9) وَإِذَا الصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ and when the scrolls [of men's deeds] are unfolded, (10) |
Abdullah Yusuf Ali When the sun5969 (with its spacious light) is folded up;5970 (Translation) 5969. Verses 1 to 13 are conditional clauses, and the substantive clause is in verse 14. The time will come when nature's processes as we know them will cease to function, and the soul will only then know by self-conviction the results of its actions. With reference to an individual soul, its resurrection is its supreme crisis: the whole world of sense, and even of imagination and reason, melts away, and its whole spiritual scroll is laid bare before it. 5970. The conditional clauses are twelve, in two groups of six. The first six affect the outer or physical life of man; the last six, his inmost spiritual life. Let us take them one by one. (1) The biggest factor affecting us in the external physical World is the light, heat, and perhaps electric or magnetic energy of the sun. The sun is the source of all the light, heat, and energy, and indeed the source and support of all physical life that we know. It is the biggest factor and yet most remote from us in our solar system. Yet the sources of our inner spiritual life will be greater and more lasting, for they will survive it. The sun as the centre of our solar system also stands as a symbol of the present order of things. The physical forces, as defined in Newton's laws of Matter and Attraction, will also break up with the break-up of the sun. Is folded up: is folded up, or twisted up, like a sheet or garment. Buy this commentary from Amazon  .Other Translations of Verse : • When the sun (with its spacious light) is folded up; (Abdullah Yusuf Ali) • When the sun is overthrown, (Mohamed Marmaduke Pickthall) • When the sun is covered, (M. H. Shakir) • When the sun Kuwwirat (wound round and lost its light and is overthrown ). (Taqiuddin Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan) • When the sun shall be wound round, (Abdul-Majid Daryabadi) • When the sun is woundup; (Hassan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish) • When the sun is folded up, (Muhammad Ayub Khan) • When the sun is folded up, (Sher Ali) • WHEN THE SUN is shrouded in darkness, (Muhammad Asad) • When the sun shall be darkened, (Arthur John Arberry) |