and when Paradise is brought near when it is brought close to those who have merited it that they may enter it the response to idhā ‘when’ at the beginning of the sūra and all that has been supplemented thereto is the following
then a soul every soul at the time of the occurrence of the things mentioned which is the Day of Resurrection will know what it has presented of good or evil.
and when the seas are set afire read sujirat or sujjirat when they are set alight and become a mass of fire;
and when the souls are coupled when they are paired up with their bodies;
and when the stars scatter when they are extinguished and hurtle down towards the earth
and when the mountains are set in motion when they are blown away from the face of the earth becoming as scattered dust
and when the pregnant camels are neglected abandoned without a herdsman or anyone to milk them on account of the matter that has come over them — even though previously no wealth was dearer to them than these pregnant camels;
and when the wild beasts are mustered when they are brought together after being resurrected so that each of them may retaliate against the other before becoming dust;
When the sun is folded away enfolded and stripped of its light
When the sun is enwrapped, and when the stars become opaque, and when the moun- tains are set moving… MuṣṬafā said that if someone wants to see the Greatest Resurrection as hard cash, such that the states of the resurrection may become apparent to him, he should be told to recite When the sun is […]