The action is attributed to the source, and its masculine form is appropriate for the separation. Abu al-Samal read 'one blast' in the accusative, attributing the action to the preposition and its object. If you say: there are two blasts, why is it said 'one'? [Mahamud said: 'If you say: why is it said one when there are two blasts... etc.? Ahmad said: 'As for the benefit of indicating the greatness of this blast: the effect of crushing the earth and the mountains and the destruction of the world is solely due to it, without needing another.'] I say its meaning is that it is not repeated at its time. If you say: which of the two blasts is it? I say the first, because at it the world will be destroyed, and this is how the narration is from Ibn Abbas. It has also been narrated from him that it is the second. If you say: did he not say after 'On that Day you will be presented' and the presentation is only at the second blast? I say: he made the day a name for the broad time in which the two blasts, the swoon, the resurrection, the standing, and the reckoning occur. Therefore, it was said 'On that Day you will be presented' just as you say: I came to him in such and such a year, and your coming was at one time from its times. And it was carried and raised from its sides by a wind whose strength was such that it could carry the earth and the mountains. Or by the creation of the angels. Or by the power of Allah without a cause. And it was read: 'and it was carried,' by omitting the carrier, which is one of the three. Thus, both were crushed, and the two masses were crushed: the mass of the earth and the mass of the mountains, so they struck one another until they became crushed and returned as a flat expanse of dust and scattered particles. Crushing is more intense than beating. It was said: they were spread out in one spread, so they became a land in which you see no crookedness or elevation, from your saying: the hump is crushed when it spreads out. And a crushed camel and a crushed she-camel. From it: the shop. 'So on that Day the event will occur,' and at that time the calamity descended, which is the Day of Resurrection, weak and slack, having fallen in strength greatly after it was firm and strong. He means: and the creation that is called the angel, and the pronoun returns to it in the plural in his saying 'above them' in meaning: If you say: what is the difference between his saying 'and the angel' and saying 'and the angels'? I say: 'the angel' is more general than 'the angels.' Do you not see that your saying: 'There is no angel except that he is a witness' is more general than your saying: 'There is no angels'? 'Upon its edges' means: they are split, and the angels who inhabit it gather to its edges and what surrounds it from its sides. [Mahamud said: 'That is to its edge because it splits, the angels who inhabit it gather to its tails... etc. Ahmad said: 'Both are defined as the definition of the genus, so the singular and the plural are equal in generality.'] Eight, meaning: eight of them. And from the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, 'Today they are four, and when the Day of Resurrection comes, Allah will support them with four others, so they will be eight.' [Reported by al-Tabari through Abu Ishaq. It has reached us that the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, said - and he mentioned it. It is mentioned in the long hadith narrated by Ismail ibn Rafi' from Zayd ibn Abi Ziyad from al-Qarzi from a man from Abu Huraira. Narrated by Abu Ya'la and others, and it has been mentioned before.] 'And it was narrated: eight angels: their legs in the depths of the seventh earth, and the Throne above their heads, and they are bowed down, glorifying. It was said: some of them are in the form of a human, some in the form of a lion, some in the form of an ox, and some in the form of an eagle. It was narrated: eight angels in the creation of the wild goats, from their hooves to their knees: a journey of seventy years. And from Shahr ibn Hawshab: four of them say: 'Glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You; to You belongs all praise for Your forgiveness after Your power.' And four say: 'Glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You; to You belongs all praise for Your forbearance after Your knowledge.' And from al-Hasan: Allah knows how many they are, are they eight or eight thousand? And from al-Dahhak: eight rows, no one knows their number except Allah. It is possible that the eight are from the spirit, or from another creation; He is capable of all creation, glorified is He who created all pairs from what the earth grows and from themselves and from what they do not know. The presentation is an expression for reckoning and questioning.

This is likened to the presentation of the sultan to know his conditions. It has been narrated that on the Day of Resurrection there are three presentations. As for the first two, they are for excuses, arguments, and reproach. As for the third, in it the books are spread out, and the successful one takes his book in his right hand, while the doomed one takes his book in his left hand, hidden is a secret and a state that was concealed in the world by the veil of Allah upon you.