Personal reflection for Tafsir Surah Al Qiyamah

Chapter 75. Verses 1-40
Reference: Tafsir Al wadhih, Mahmud Hijazi

The surah begins by swearing by two subjects of great effect, meaning and significance: Day of Resurrection and the oft-self-condemning human soul.

Then it immediately addresses issues between those two: on the day of resurrection, Allah is able to accumulate and re-create the human perfectly.

However, eventhough Allah is able to do so, man continues in wrongdoing and even arrogantly questions, "When is it?"

Therefore from verse 7 to 15, Allah describes what happens during armageddon and what happens to man. Planets are out of sync. And man questions, "Where is it safe for me to go?"

Man is told about his deeds, of which on that day he is both judge and jury for his own "cases".

Verses 16- 19 are about reading the Qur'an. Some scholars relate it to the aforementioned theme; how man on that day will read his record-book hurriedly in a useless attempt to escape punishment.

Hastiness or hurried behaviour is not good, even when doing a good deed such as reciting or memorizing the Qur'an.

Verses 20-21 returns our attention to the main theme: loving the current life too much and forgetting the eternal hereafter. This makes one lose accountability, religion, morality. Again, the scenes of the day of resurrection is described; the faces of the nadhirah and the baasirah.

Some dispute arise about the verse which says the ones with nadhirah will be naazhirah (looking , at their Lord) but the issue is settled with the argument that worldly "reality" differs from hereafter "reality".

Verses 26-30 describes what happens during death with an effective description in verse 29. With verse 27 comes a question, "a healer (for this ailment)?"

Then it describes a man's wrongdoing: his failure to subscribe to The Prophet and the Qur'an, to prayer (solat) and his arrogance.

This (type of) Man is condemned in verses 34-35. And verse 36 serves as a reminder, that man will be called to be accountable. And lastly, verses 37-40 summarizes the theme of the surah perfectly: man was a drop of semen; a clot of blood and then Allah completed and perfected his features. Therefore; the Power which created him the first time is fully able to resurrect him again.

Wallahua'lam.