Commentary
And when these things are, due to their horror, a cause for the gathering of concern and the diversion of thought from what occupies it of adornment, amusement, play, or distraction, it necessitates knowledge of what is hoped to be a delight or what necessitates a hellfire. And this is a cause for the listener's longing for what will be. Allah, the Most High, said, revealing that blessing with the worker in 'When' and what is conjoined with it: ﴿A soul has come to know﴾, meaning every one of the souls. The indefiniteness in it is like that in 'a fruit of good from a grasshopper.' The indication of this terrifying context on that necessitates certainty in it. ﴿What﴾ means everything. ﴿Has brought﴾, meaning it has acted and produced, thus it was deserving of presence. And its action was a cause for the bringing of the All-Powerful to it on that day, preserved, not a particle of its good or evil has been absent from it. For this reason, every person has a matter that concerns him. Indeed, there must be in his actions what does not please him and what he considers insignificant before the presence of the Most High, the Great. So whoever believes that desires to not be present except for what is made easy for him, and fears the presence of what would displease him and harm him. All of these twelve things mentioned in the context of 'When' in the Hereafter after the second blowing of the trumpet, as has been previously stated in the event of the Hour, that is the apparent view, and it is a narration from Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, for the terror after the resurrection is more fitting, and it is more inclusive of wisdom and more astonishing.
And Imam Abu Ja'far Ibn al-Zubair said: When He, glorified and exalted is He, said ﴿So when the deafening blast comes﴾ [Abasa: 33] ﴿On the Day a man will flee from his brother﴾ [Abasa: 34] - the verses to the end of the surah, it was a cause for the inquiry of the questioner about when the occurrence will be. So He, the Most High, said: ﴿When the sun is wrapped up﴾ [Al-Takwir: 1] and the occurrence of the wrapping of the sun, the falling of the stars, the moving of the mountains, and the disabling of the pregnant camels, all of that occurs before a man flees from his brother and his mother and father - to what He mentioned to the end of the surah, for the connection of what He mentioned at the beginning of Surah Al-Takwir with the resurrection of the Hour, it is valid that it can be a sign for the first and a marker for it - it has ended.
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