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18:99 - On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another; the trumpet will be
blown and We shall collect them all together. 2445
2445 And so we pass on to the Last Days before the Great Summons comes from Allah. All human barriers will be swept
away. There will be tumultuous rushes. The Trumpet will be blown, and the Judgment will be set on foot. (18.99)
18:100 - And We shall present Hell that day for Unbelievers to see all spread out 2446
2446 If men had scoffed at Faith and the Hereafter, their eyes will be opened now, and they will see the terrible Reality.
(18.100)
20:109 - Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord sooner would the
ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord even if we added another ocean like it
for its aid." 2453
2453 The Words and Signs and Mercies of Allah are in all Creation, and can never be fully set out in human language,
however extended our means may be imagined to be. (18.109)
20:111 - (All) faces shall be humbled before (Him) the Living the Self-Subsisting Eternal: hopeless
indeed will be the man that carries iniquity (on his back). 2636
2636 The metaphor of the burden of sin which the unjust carry on their backs is referred to in xx. 100-101 (see n. 2626), in
vi. 31, and in other passages. Note that all faces, those of the just as well as of the unjust, will be humble before Allah:
the best of us can claim no merit equal to Allah's Grace. But the just will have Hope: while the unjust, now that the
curtain of Reality has risen, will be in absolute Despair! (20.111)
20:124 - "But whosoever turns away from My Message verily for him is a life narrowed down and
We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment." 2648
2648 Again, as in the last two verses, there is a variation from the previous passage (ii. 39). The consequences of the
rejection of Allah's guidance are here expressed more individually: a life narrowed down, and a blindness that will
persist beyond this life. "A life narrowed down" has many implications: (1) it is a life from which all the beneficent
influences of Allah's wide world are excluded; (2) in looking exclusively to the "good things" of this life, it misses the
true Reality. (20.124)
50:21 - And there will come forth every soul: with each will be an (angel) to drive and an (angel) to
bear witness. 4957
4957 Several interpretations are possible, leading to the same truth, that the Judgment will be set up;
the Record will be produced; the good and bad deeds will speak for and against; and complete justice will be done,
each act leading to its own due fruit. (1) The (angel) to drive and the (angel) to bear witness may be the Recording
Angels of the left and the right (verse 17); or (2) it may not be angels, but the evil deeds will drive like task-masters,
and the good deeds will bear witness for the soul on trial; or (3) his misused limbs and faculties will drive him to his
doom, while his well-used limbs and faculties will witness for him. (50.21)
54:7 - They will come forth their eyes humbled from (their) graves (torpid) like locusts scattered
abroad 5134
5134 At one stage in the invasion of locust swarms, the locusts are torpid and are scattered abroad all over the ground. I
have seen them on railway tracks in 'Iraq, crushed to death in hundreds by passing trains. The simile is apt for the
stunned beings who will rise up in swarms from their graves and say, "Ah! woe unto us! who has raised us up?"
(xxxvi. 52). (54.7)
54:8 - Hastening with eyes transfixed towards the Caller! "Hard is this Day!" the Unbelievers will
say.
56:7 - And ye shall be sorted out into three classes. 5225
5225 See n. 5223 above. (56.7)
68:42 - The Day that the shin shall be laid bare and they shall be summoned to bow in adoration
but they shall not be able 5622
5622 "The Day that the Shin shall be laid bair", that is, when men are confronted with the stark reality of the Day of
Judgment. On that occasion men will be summoned to adoration, not necessarily in words, but by the logic of facts,
when the Reality will be fully manifest: the Glory will be too dazzling for the Unbelievers, whose past deliberate
refusal, when they had freedom to choose and yet rejected, will stand in way. (68.42)
68:43 - Their eyes will be cast down ignominy will cover them; seeing that they had been
summoned aforetime to bow in adoration while they were whole (and had refused). 56235624
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