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فَاِذَا جَآءَتِ الطَّآمَّةُ الۡكُبۡرٰى ۖ‏ ﴿79:34﴾يَوۡمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الۡاِنۡسَانُ مَا سَعٰىۙ‏ ﴿79:35﴾وَبُرِّزَتِ الۡجَحِيۡمُ لِمَنۡ يَّرٰى‏ ﴿79:36﴾ فَاَمَّا مَنۡ طَغٰىۙ‏ ﴿79:37﴾ وَاٰثَرَ الۡحَيٰوةَ الدُّنۡيَا ۙ‏﴿79:38﴾ فَاِنَّ الۡجَحِيۡمَ هِىَ الۡمَاۡوٰىؕ‏ ﴿79:39﴾وَاَمَّا مَنۡ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهٖ وَ نَهَى النَّفۡسَ عَنِ الۡهَوٰىۙ‏ ﴿79:40﴾ فَاِنَّ الۡجَـنَّةَ هِىَ الۡمَاۡوٰىؕ‏ ﴿79:41﴾ يَسۡـئَلُوۡنَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ اَيَّانَ مُرۡسٰٮهَا ؕ‏ ﴿79:42﴾ فِيۡمَ اَنۡتَ مِنۡ ذِكۡرٰٮهَاؕ‏ ﴿79:43﴾ اِلٰى رَبِّكَ مُنۡتَهٰٮهَاؕ‏ ﴿79:44﴾اِنَّمَاۤ اَنۡتَ مُنۡذِرُ مَنۡ يَّخۡشٰٮهَاؕ‏ ﴿79:45﴾كَاَنَّهُمۡ يَوۡمَ يَرَوۡنَهَا لَمۡ يَلۡبَثُوۡۤا اِلَّا عَشِيَّةً اَوۡ ضُحٰٮهَا‏  ﴿79:46﴾

(79:34) But when the great calamity will come about¹⁹ (79:35) on the Day when man will recall all his strivings,²⁰ (79:36) and Hell will be brought in sight for anyone to see: (79:37) then he who transgressed (79:38) and preferred the life of this world, (79:39) most surely his abode shall be Hell. (79:40) But he who feared to stand before his Lord, and restrained himself from evil desires, (79:41) most surely his abode shall be Paradise.²¹ (79:42) They ask you about the Hour: “When will it be?”²² (79:43) What concern do you have to speak about that? (79:44) Its knowledge rests with your Lord. (79:45) You are only a warner to him who has a fear of it.²³ (79:46) On the Day they see it, they will feel as though they had stayed (in the grave) no more than one evening or one morning.²⁴

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Notes

19. This implies the Resurrection for which the words at- Taammat alkubra have been used. Taammah by itself is a grievous calamity which afflicts everybody. Then it has been further qualified by the word kubra (great), which shows that the mere word taammah is not enough to describe fully its intensity and severity.

20. That is, when man will see that the same Day of accountability of which he was being foretold in the world, has come, he will start remembering each one of his misdeeds done in the world even before his records are handed over to him. Some people experience this even in the world. If at some time they come across a dangerous situation suddenly when death seems to be staring them in the face, their whole life-film flashes across their mind’s eye all at once.

21. Here, in a few words, it has been told briefly what shall be the criterion of the final judgment in the Hereafter. One kind of the conduct of life in the world is that transgressing all bounds of service man should rebel against his God and should make up his mind that he would seek only the benefits and pleasures of this world in whatever way they could be sought and achieved. The other kind of conduct is that while man passes life in the world he should constantly keep in view the truth that ultimately one day he has to stand before his Lord, and should refrain from fulfilling the evil desires of the self only for the fear that if he earned an unlawful benefit in obedience to his self, or enjoyed an evil pleasure, what answer he would give to his Lord. The criterion of the judgment in the Hereafter will be which of the two kinds of conduct he adopted in the world. If he had adopted the first kind of conduct, his permanent abode would be Hell, and if he had adopted the second kind of conduct, his permanent home would be Paradise. 

22. The disbelievers of Makkah asked this question of the Prophet (peace be upon him) over and over again. By this they did not mean to know the time and date of the coming of Resurrection but to mock it. (For further explanation, see( E.N. 35 of Surah Al-Mulk). 

23. This we also have explained in( E.N. 36 of Surah Al- Mulk). As for the words “you are only a Warner to him who fears it”, they do not mean that it is not your duty to warn those who do not fear, but it means: Your warning will benefit only him who fears the coming of that Day. 

24. This theme has occurred at several places in the Quran and been explained in the following notes. For it, see (E.N. 53 of Surah Younus); (E.N. 56 of Surah Bani Israil); (E.N. 80 of Surah TaHa); (E.N. 101 of Surah Al-Mominoon); (E.Ns 81, 82 of Surah Ar-Room); E.N. 48 of Surah