Tafsir for verse: 20:111
۞ وَعَنَتِ ٱلۡوُجُوهُ لِلۡحَيِّ ٱلۡقَيُّومِۖ وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَنۡ حَمَلَ ظُلۡمٗا ١١١ ﴿111﴾
111All faces will be humbled before (Allah,) the Ever-Alive, the All-Sustaining; and the loser will be the one who bears (the burden of his) injustice.
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Commentary
What is meant by the faces is the faces of the sinners. When they witness - on the Day of Resurrection - the disappointment, misery, and bad reckoning, their faces will become humbled, meaning submissive and meek, like the faces of the humbled ones, who are the captives. This is similar to His saying, 'So when they see it approaching, the faces of those who disbelieved will be distressed, and on that Day, some faces will be bright.' And His saying, 'And they have failed,' and what follows is an interruption, like saying: they have failed and lost. Everyone who wrongs is indeed a failed loser.
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