[56] Surah Al-Waqi’ah [The Event]: Ayat 083-087

৮৩. অতঃপর যখন কারও প্রাণ কন্ঠাগত হয়।

৮৪. এবং তোমরা তাকিয়ে থাক,

৮৫. তখন আমি তোমাদের অপেক্ষা তার অধিক নিকটে থাকি; কিন্তু তোমরা দেখ না।

৮৬. যদি তোমাদের হিসাব-কিতাব না হওয়াই ঠিক হয়, 

৮৭. তবে তোমরা এই আত্মাকে ফিরাও না কেন, যদি তোমরা সত্যবাদী হও ?     

Ayat 83. Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat?

Ayat 84. And you at the moment are looking on,

Ayat 85. But we (i.e. Our angels who take the soul) are nearer to him than you, but you see not.

Ayat 86. Then why do you not, if you are exempt from the reckoning and recompense (punishment, etc.)

Ayat 87. Bring back the soul (to its body), if you are truthful?

Tafseer of Surah Al-Waqi’ah 83. Then why do ye not (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat, There is a hiatus after why do ye not?—and two parenthetical clauses-after which the clause why do ye not? is resumed again in verse 86 below, with its complement in verse 87. It is permissible to the translator to add some such word as intervene here, to make the translation run smoothly. 84. And ye the while (sit) looking on, The dying man's friends, relatives and companions may be sitting round him and quite close to him in his last moments, but Allah is nearer still at all times for He is nearer than the man's own jugular vein (50:16), and one of Allah's own titles is "Ever Near" (34:50). 85. But We are nearer to him than ye, and yet see not, 86. Then why do ye not, If you are exempt from (future) account, These words resume the sentence begun at verse 83 above and interrupted by the two parenthetical clauses in verses 84 and 85. Ayat 87. Call back the soul, if ye are true (in the claim of independence)? The sentence may now be briefly paraphrased. 'If you disbelieve in Revelation and a future Judgement, and claim to do what you like and be independent of Allah, how is it you cannot call back a dying man's soul to his body when all of you congregate round him at his death-bed? But you are not independent of Judgement. There is a Day of Accounts, when you will have to be judged by your deeds in this life.' 

Hazrat Ibn Masood (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "Truth leads to piety and piety leads to Jannah. A man persists in speaking the truth till he is enrolled with Allah as a truthful. Falsehood leads to vice and vice leads to the Fire (Hell), and a person persists on telling lies until he is enrolled as a liar".'

[Muslim Book 32, Chapter 26, Hadith # 6306].

Lesson: Siddiq (veracious) and Kadhdhab (liar) both are adjectives of intensive degree. That is to say, the words stand respectively for someone whose truth has become his second nature; and in the opposite case, one is a liar who is in the habit of telling lies. As one acquires a reputation in this world for his good or bad deeds similar is his position before Allah. One who is ranked among the truthful with Him is entitled to reward, and if one is a liar, he has to suffer retribution for it. This Hadith provides incentive for truthfulness because it is a source of every good deed and contains a warning against lying as it gives rise to all kinds of mischief.