Commentary
And when it was established regarding the perfection of creation that neglect and cessation of dispute are not permissible with it, and it sometimes may stop where one thinks of the inability to do that after death, he said, warning about the completeness of ability, affirming it, and denying it to whoever stops at it, reproaching him, based on what has been established regarding the ability to resurrect from the evidence of the ability that is witnessed at the beginning: "Is not that" meaning the Creator, the Most Perfect God, who has decreed this creation and made these perfect works that no one else can do anything of it. And he emphasized the negation by saying: "With the ability" meaning the Great Ability "to bring the dead to life" meaning how He wills, either all at once or at successive times. "He will establish the Resurrection" but [and] by His might, majesty, greatness, and perfection, indeed, He is capable of all that He wills. And the end of the surah returns to its beginning in the most complete return, and it has gathered in it the most complete gathering. Thus, its meanings have been completed in the greatest completeness by the gathering of the bones and the bringing forth of the standing for the Day of Gathering and crowding - may Allah assist us [in it] according to the conclusion. Al-Baghawi narrated with his chain from the way of Abu Dawood from a Bedouin from Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, said: "Whoever among you recites 'By the fig and the olive' [At-Tin: 1] and reaches its end 'Is not Allah the Best of Judges?' [At-Tin: 8] let him say: [Indeed, yes -] and I am among the witnesses to that. And whoever recites 'I swear by the Day of Resurrection' [Al-Qiyamah: 1] and reaches His saying 'Is not that with the ability to bring the dead to life?' let him say: Indeed, yes. And whoever recites Al-Mursalat and recites 'So by which statement after it will they believe?' [Al-Mursalat: 50] let him say: 'We have believed in Allah.'" [And -] it was narrated by Al-Tirmidhi, and he said at the end of Al-Qiyamah that He will bring the dead to life: "Indeed, yes, by the might of our Lord." And the scholar Nur al-Din al-Haythami said in Majma' al-Zawa'id: Ahmad narrated it, and in it are two men whom I do not know from Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: "The Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, said: 'Whoever recites: Al-Mursalat 'So by which statement after it will they believe?' and whoever recites: 'By the fig and the olive,' let him say: And I am among the witnesses to that. And whoever recites: 'Is not that with the ability to bring the dead to life?' let him say: Indeed, yes.' And Allah is the guide to what is right.
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