Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 50:19–29
Qaf (Qaf)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(19) The trance of death will come revealing the truth: that is what you were trying to escape. (20) The trumpet will be sounded. This is the Day [you were] warned of. (21) Each person will arrive attended by an [angel] to drive him on and another to bear witness. (22) You were heedless of this, but now We have removed your veil, so your sight today is sharp. (23) His companion attendant will say, ‘I have here his record ready.’ (24) ‘Cast into Hell every ungrateful, rebellious one, (25) hinderer of good, transgressor, causing others to doubt, (26) who has set up another god besides God: cast him into severe punishment’— (27) and his associate [Satan] will say, ‘Lord, I did not make him transgress, he had already gone far astray himself.’ (28) God will say, ‘Do not quarrel in My presence. I gave you the warning beforehand (29) and My word shall not be changed, nor am I unjust to My servants.’
Commentary
(a) A picture of death and Doomsday thereafter has been drawn in these verses. It shows what will happen to those who, finding themselves free in this world, became arrogant. This pictorial description is so terrible as to cause extreme unease in the minds of all living beings.