The Earthquake (Al-Zalzalah)
Verses 1-8 GROUP_1583 99.1-8
1
إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا
When the earth is shaken with its violent shaking,
2
وَأَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا
when the earth shakes off her burdens,
3
وَقَالَ الْإِنسَانُ مَا لَهَا
when man asks, ‘What is happening to her?’;
4
يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا
on that Day it will narrate its account,
5
بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَى لَهَا
for your Lord has so directed it.
6
يَوْمَئِذٍ يَصْدُرُ النَّاسُ أَشْتَاتًا لِّيُرَوْا أَعْمَالَهُمْ
On that Day people will come forward in separate groups to be shown their deeds:
7
فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ
whoever has done the smallest particle of good will see it;
8
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ
while whoever has done the smallest particle of evil will see it.
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Commentary
(a) The earthquake on Doomsday will be the announcement of the end of the testing period for man. This would mean that the freedom which was theirs on account of their being on trial, has now been snatched away from them. Now the time has come when human beings will be recompensed for their deeds. Today, God’s world is silent, but when conditions change, everything found here will start talking. The inventions of the present day have proved that lifeless or inanimate things also have the capacity to ‘talk.’ A performance in a studio is fully reproduced by a video film and records. Similarly, the present world is, so to say, a big ‘studio’ of God. Whatever a man does or says or even thinks, everything is being recorded at every moment. And when the time comes, this world will repeat everybody’s story in such a way that not a thing, great or small, will be left out.