[56] Surah Al-Waqi’ah [The Event]: Ayat 047-051

৪৭. তারা বলতঃ আমরা যখন মরে অস্থি ও মৃত্তিকায় পরিণত হয়ে  যাব, তখনও কি পুনরুত্থিত হব?

৪৮. এবং আমাদের পূর্বপুরুষগণও!

৪৯. বলুনঃ পূর্ববর্তী ও পরবর্তীগণ, 

৫০. সবাই একত্রিত হবে এক নির্দিষ্ট দিনের নির্দিষ্ট সময়ে।

৫১. অতঃপর হে পথভ্রষ্ট, মিথ্যারোপকারীগণ।    

Ayat 47. And they used to say: "When we die and become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be resurrected?

Ayat 48. "And also our forefathers?"

Ayat 49. Say (O Muhammad  [SAWW](PBUH) "(Yes) verily, those of old, and those of later times.

Ayat 50. "All will surely be gathered together for appointed Meeting of a known Day.

Ayat 51. "Then moreover, verily, you the erring-ones, the deniers (of Resurrection)!

Tafseer of Surah Al-Waqi’ah 47. And they used to say, "What! when we die and become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised up again? Their want of belief and ridicule of Allah's Message contrasts with the stern reality which they see around them now. 48. "(We) and our fathers of old?" 49. Say: "Yea, those of old and those of later times, 50."All will certainly be gathered together for the meeting appointed for a Day well-known. In 26:38 the phrase a day well-known is used for a solemn day of festival, when the multitude of people gather together. The Day of Judgement is such a day in the supreme sense of the word. 51. "Then will ye truly,- O ye that go wrong, and treat (Truth) as Falsehood!- 

Hazrat Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said,  "Between the two Blowing of the Trumpet there will be an interval of forty.'' The people said, "O Abu Hurairah! Do you mean forty days?'' He said, "I cannot say anything.'' They said, "Do you mean forty years?'' He said, "I cannot say anything.'' They said, "Do you mean forty months?'' He said, "I cannot say anything. The Prophet  [SAWW](PBUH) added: Everything of the human body will perish except the last coccyx bone (end part of the spinal cord), and from that bone Allah will reconstruct the whole body. Then Allah will send down water from the sky and people will grow like green vegetables'.''  [Al-Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 457].

Lesson: as mentioned above in Surah Al-Waqi’ah Ayat 50. "All will surely be gathered together for appointed Meeting of a known Day.

1. When Israfil blows the Trumpet the first time, by Allah's Leave, all those who are in the heavens and on earth will swoon away, except him whom Allah will. This will be the first Blowing. Then, it will be blown a second time, they will become alive and will emerge from their graves. These Blowing are known as the `Blowing of Fainting and Rising'. As regard the interval between these two Blowing, the narrator of the narration, Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him), could not say anything when he was asked about it; as he himself did not know it. But in other narrations the interval has been mentioned as forty years.

2. The earth eats away the whole body of humans except the bodies of the Prophets. However, only the end part of the spinal cord remains intact. How it remains intact is known to Allah, but from it mankind will be created again.

3. Bodies will rise from the earth as vegetation springs out from the earth after the rainfall.