Commentary
This means that the matter of the Day of Judgment is such that we cannot grasp its essence due to the terror and severity of it. However one imagines it, it is beyond that and multiplied many times over. The repetition is for the purpose of increasing the awe. Then he summarized the statement in its description by saying: 'On a Day when no soul will possess for another soul anything,' meaning that no one can repel harm from themselves or influence it in any way, and the command is solely for Allah alone. Those who raised the phrase refer to the substitute of the Day of Judgment, or they mean: it is a Day when no one possesses. Those who constructed it in the accusative do so by implying 'they will be equal,' because the term 'Judgment' indicates this, or by implying 'mention.' It is permissible to open it for its addition to something not firmly established, and it is in the state of nominative.
From the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him: 'Whoever recites
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