al-Waqiah (The Inevitable Event)
Chapter 56: Verses 83-87
Translation:
When a man’s soul reaches his throat and is about to leave him, and you are looking on, and We are closer to him than you, although you cannot see Us, why then, if you are not accountable, can you not bring the soul back, if you claim to be truthful?
Commentary:
Death is inescapable and unpreventable; an inevitable event in every man’s life that comes at a predestined moment, totally beyond human control.
Being totally preoccupied with their day-to-day lives and worldly affairs, the majority of people cannot think beyond their material or physical existence. Many of them are, to say at least, skeptical about the resurrection and are quite adamant in their belief that death is the end of their existence.
Death is a most profound truth; today’s dead are buried by those who too will die one day, and yet the latter continue to ignore death and live as if it would not happen to him. It seldom moves them to think or reflect on the convictions or conduct.
By his very nature, man is argumentative, contentious, and stubborn. However, once this great cataclysmic event is suddenly set in motion, the curtain will fall and no human power will be able to stop it.
[compiled from “A thematic Commentary on the Quran” by Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali, pp. 607-608, 624]
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