Ayat 1. O mankind! Fear
your Lord and be dutiful to Him! Verily, the earthquake of the Hour (of
Judgment) is a terrible thing.
Ayat 2. The Day you shall see it,
every nursing mother will forget her nursling, and every pregnant one will drop
her load, and you shall see mankind as in a drunken state, yet they will not be
drunken, but severe will be the Torment of Allah.
[Tafseer] Surah Al-Hajj
contain 78 Ayats, O mankind!
fear your Lord! for the convulsion of the Hour (of Judgment) will be a thing
terrible! As an introduction to the spiritual meaning of various
symbolic acts in this life, the serious issues involved are indicated by showing
how terrible the consequences will be for those who disobey Allah's Will. The
terror will only be for those who rebel and disobey: the righteous will not
suffer from it, but on the contrary will be greeted by angels with joy
(21:103).
The Day ye shall see it, every
mother giving suck shall forget her suckling- babe, and every pregnant female
shall drop her load (unformed): thou shall see mankind as in a drunken riot, yet
not drunk: but dreadful will be the Wrath of Allah. Three metaphors are used for the
extreme terror which the Awful Day will inspire. (1) No mother abandons the baby
at her breast in the greatest danger; yet that will happen in this Dreadful
Hour. (2) An expectant mother carries the young life within her with great pride
and hope: "hope" is the actual word used in Urdu for this physical state; yet
the terror will overpower the hope at this "Hour", and nature's working will be
reversed. (3) Men ordinarily retain their self-possession except under
intoxicants; here, without intoxication, they will be driven to frenzy with
terror.
Hazrat Abu Said
Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah
[SAWW](PBUH) said, "Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection), 'O Adam.' Adam
will reply, 'Labbaik wa Sa'daik', and all the good is in Your Hand.' Allah will
say: 'Bring out the people of the fire.' Adam will say: 'O Allah! How many are
the people of the Fire?' Allah will reply: 'From every one thousand, take out
nine-hundred-and ninety-nine.' At that time children will become hoary headed,
every pregnant female will have a miscarriage, and one will see mankind as
drunken, yet they will not be drunken, but dreadful will be the Wrath of Allah."
The companions of the Prophet asked, "O Allah's Apostle! Who is that (excepted)
one?" He said, "Rejoice with glad tidings; one person will be from you and
one-thousand will be from Gog and Magog." The Prophet
[SAWW](PBUH) further said, "By Him in Whose Hands my life is, hope that you will
be one-fourth of the people of Paradise." We shouted, "Allahu Akbar!" He added,
"I hope that you will be one-third of the people of Paradise." We shouted,
"Allahu Akbar!" He said, "I hope that you will be half of the people of
Paradise." We shouted, "Allahu Akbar!" He further said, "You (Muslims) (compared
with non Muslims) are like a black hair in the skin of a white ox or like a
white hair in the skin of a black ox (i.e.
your number is very small as compared with theirs)."
[Bukhari
Book 04, Chapter 55, Hadith #
567].
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