Exegesis of Al-Qāri'a (Q. 101)

In the Name of Allah the Most Merciful the Most Gracious...
He, upon him be peace, was asked about the interpretation of: {The Catastrophe! What is the Catastrophe? What hast reached thee concerning the Catastrophe?}
{The Catastrophe} is: what terrifies one from misfortunes and affairs;
As well as the sudden attack upon a people by means of fear unawares.
It means: A great tribulation to see and what the eyes will witness
From the horrors seen and those things that will scare one witless.
The good deeds will be recompensed, as well as those of wickedness;
Whilst standing on Judgment Day. There will be grief and penitence
For all disappointed ones, losers, intentional sinners, and disobedient.
Do you not hear how Allah will address those resurrected immediate?!
{A Day when people shall be as moths dispersing}
{...shall be} is: will become. And {moths} are small creatures deemed vile;
Insects of the earth and flying. The Arabs use it as imagery to mean fragile
Because there are many. A flying thing denotes something contemptible.
If you want to connote something as many, weak, light, or small, in principle;
You say: "What is this except that it is like moths in smallness and lightness?"
People who want to denote many say: "like moths in abundance," like this.
"Dispersion" is to spring forward confusingly and spread in various directions.
It is to flow as waves from different paths and ram into each other with aggressions.
Allah uses this simile to refer to the people during the Day of Resurrection.
They are described as moths scrambling about ramming each other by section.
They fall to the ground panicking. There is more we could mention regarding
The many, ramming, disturbance, confusion, and differing directions departing.
On that Day, they will be called from various directions of one addressing.
They will all respond to the call, all of them, by means of their listening.
As Allah, the Glorified said: {On that Day, they will follow the Caller, from whom is no escape} (Q. 20:108).
They will not break away after following him, as they seceded before the call.
They will not hear and be in confusion regarding what they are called to at all.
As Allah, the Glorified said: {Listen for the Day when the Caller shall call from a near place} (Q. 50:41).
It is a Day piercing calls will be heard. One will hear the Caller‟s address.
Regarding what we mentioned about this piercing call, Allah stressed:
{Then, when the piercing call comes on a day when a person will flee from his brother, mother, father, mate, and children; everyone will be concerned with himself on that Day} (Q. 80:33-37).
{The mountains shall be as wool fluffed up}
The {wool} is a fine, soft wool that is not rough but soft to the touch.
It is fluffed, dried, and may be separated into pieces—little or much.
You could comb through it, tear it, scatter it, and divide it, as well.
Similarly, the mountains will be manifested, as one is able to tell.
On the Day of Judgment, you will be finished, like a mirage of mist,
In annihilation, finality, destruction, and payment for what you commit.
After those misfortunes, Allah says: {...the one whose deeds weigh heavy...}
This means: The one whose good deeds and actions are on the scales weighty.
{...in a life of pleasure} means: one will be in a life of pure bliss.
One will only come to know lightness or heaviness that Day as this:
To know it by one‟s condition, destiny, and the deeds one committed.
We will not know lightness or heaviness by scale measurements intended
On that Day, nor by the various weights of lightness, bodies, and mass.
But one knows it by what we previously mentioned and explained last,
And by what is known by the Arab in the Arabic language and tongue.
{Regarding the one whose deeds weigh light...} refers to the deeds of one,
Which are light because of one‟s disobedience and defiant deeds done.
{...his refuge is Hāwiya}
The meaning of {his refuge} is: his final destination: his abysmal place.
Allah says: {What hast reached thee regarding what is it? A Fire ablaze}.
{A Fire ablaze} is what they will be lead to, and Allah assigns them there.
If it is their destination and refuge, it will be their final resting place there.
{A Fire ablaze} is that which will not be extinguished or recede.
They will remain therein forever, and the one who enters never leaves.

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