And when he mentioned the return, he followed it with some of its conditions and said: "And the Day the Hour will arise". It was named so as a reference to the great power over it, along with the multitude of creatures, regarding the greatness of the mighty, the great, and the leaders among them. "They will be silent" means they will be quiet and still in despair and confusion to the utmost degree of humiliation - as indicated by the reminder of the action along with the renewal [and continuity] - as alluded to by the present tense. "The criminals" are those who have taken from the world what is their right to cut off for their annihilation, and they have cut off from the means of the Hereafter what is their right to be connected for their permanence. They were in the utmost confusion in argument and knowledge of everything that would provoke the adversary from saying, action, swaying, and laughing at the silence of the adversary, astonished by their flow in their delusions, rejoicing in their silencing, so that some of those who saw him would think that he had been silenced and that the proof was for them.