Tafsir for verse: 70:8
يَوۡمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلۡمُهۡلِ ٨ ﴿8﴾
8(This punishment will befall) on the Day when the sky will be like dregs of oil,
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Commentary
And when he mentioned about this day what prompts the question about it, he began to clarify it, explaining its greatness. He said: "The Day" means it will occur when "the heaven" [that is] the most secure thing you see and the strongest of it due to the enormity of what will happen in it of terrors, "like molten metal" meaning the substance that is melted from the minerals in molten state or the dross of oil.
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