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What does this mean?
Sara
01/01/01 at 18:28:16
When the sky is rent asunder;when the stars scatter and the oceans roll together;when the graves are hurled about;each soul shall know what it has done and what it has failed to do.                  -----Quran, 82:1

Re: What does this mean?
meraj
01/01/01 at 21:05:55
as salamu alaikum, ummm... im not sure but i [i]think[/i] it is referring to the mass destruction that will occur when the day of judgement comes ???

Re: What does this mean?
destined
01/02/01 at 18:50:17
slm, a similar verse is in surah Rahman When the sky is rent asunder, and it becomes red like ointment (55:37) Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? [55:38] I'm not sure what the tafsir on 82:1 is..sowwy :(

Re: What does this mean?
se7en
01/02/01 at 20:44:48
as salaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllahi wa barakatuh, Al-Infitar and the surah before it, at-Takweer, are two of my favorite suras :) I'm going to quote from Sayyid Qutb's In the Shade of the Quran. The Cleaving Asunder Al Infitar In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. When the sky is cleft asunder; When the Stars are scattered; When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth; And when the Graves are turned upside down; (Then) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and (what it hath) kept back. O man! What has seduced thee from thy Lord Most Beneficent?- Him Who created thee. Fashioned thee in due proportion, and gave thee a just bias; In whatever Form He wills, does He put thee together. Nay! but ye do reject the Judgment! But verily over you (are appointed angels) to protect you,- Kind and honorable,- writing down (your deeds): They know all that ye do. As for the Righteous, they will be in Bliss; And the Wicked - they will be in the Fire, Which they will enter on the Day of Judgment, And they will not be able to keep away therefrom. And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is? Again, what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is? (It will be) the Day when no soul shall have power (to do) aught for another: For the Command, that Day, will be (wholly) with Allah. "...In the commentary on the previous surah we described the feelings generated in people when they visualize the universe undergoing a change so violent that it leave nothing in its familiar shape and condition.  We also said that such feelings tend to pull man away from anything which gives him a sense of security, with the exception of Allah, Creator of the universe, the One who lives on after everything has died and withered away.  Man's heart is thus made to turn to the only true being Who neither changes nor dies, to seek His support and security in the face of the general upheaval which destroys everything that seemed once to be permanent.  For nothing lives forever except the Creator Who is the only one worthy of being worshipped.   The first aspect mentioned here of the universal upheaval is the cleaving or rending of the sky, which is mentioned in other surahs: [i] When the sky is split asunder and becomes rose red, like stained leather. (55:37) The sky will be rent asunder, for on that day it is frail and tottering. (69:16) When the sky is rent asunder. (84:1) [/i] That the sky will be split or rent asunder on that hectic day is certain.  What is meant exactly by such rending, and how the sky will look after it has been rent are difficult to say.  All that we are left with is a feeling of violent change which overwhelms the universe, as we see it, and a realisation that its perfect system will no longer be in operation. The violent upheaval of the universe causes the stars to scatter after they have been held together by a system which makes every star keep to its orbit, along which it may move fearfully fast, without swerving out of it.  If the system is broken at any time, as will happen when the life of the stars comes to its end, they will just disappear in the wide space, as does a particle of dust running loose. The explosion of the oceans may refer to their being overfull to the extent that they drown the dry land and swallow the rivers.  It may, alternatively, mean an explosion which seperates oxygen from hydrogen, the two gases which form water.  Thus water returns to its original gas condition.  The verse may also be taken to refer to a nuclear explosion of the two gases.  If this is the case, then the explosion would be so fearful that our nulcear devices of today would seem, in comparison, like children's toys.  The explosion may also take a different form, totally unknown to us.  One thing however, we know for certain is that there will be horror far greater than any man could have ever experienced. The hurling about of the graves may be a result of one of the events mentioned above.  It may also be a seperate event which occurs on that eventful day.  As the graves are hurled about people are resurrected and stand up again, back in life, to face the reckoning, and receive their reward or punishment.  This is complemented by the verse which follows the description of these events; each soul shall know its earlier actions and its later ones.  That is, each soul shall come face to face with what it has done and what it left behind of the consequences of its actions; or, what it has enjoyed in this present life and what it has saved for the hereafter.  The knowledge, however, will accompany these horrific events.  It will indeed be one of them, for it terrifies the soul no less than any of the other events mentioned earlier."

Re: What does this mean?
Anonymous
01/03/01 at 04:46:44
Syed Maududi's Commentary for Surah #82  Infitaar: Name: It is derived from the word infatarat in the first verse. Infitar is an infinitive which means to burst or split asunder, thereby implying that it is the Sura in which the splitting asunder of the sky has been mentioned. Period of Revelation This Sura and the Sura At-Takwir closely resemble each other in their subject matter. This shows that both were sent down in about the same period. Theme and Subject Matter Its theme is the Hereafter. Accroding to a tradition related in Musnad Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Ibn al-Mundhir, Tabarani, Hakim and Ibn Marduyah, on the authority of Hadrat Abdullah bin Umar, the Holy Messenger (upon whom be peace) said: "The one who wants that he should see the Resurrection Day as one would see it with one's eyes, should read Sura At-Takwir" In this Sura first the Resurection Day has been described and it is said that when it occurs, every person will see whatever he has done in the world. After this, man has been asked to ponder thc question: "O man, what has deluded you into thinking that the God, Who brought you into being and by Whose favor and bounty you possess the finest body, limbs and features among all creatures, is only bountiful and not just?His being bountiful and generous does not mean that you should become fearless of His justice."Then, man has been warned, so as to say: "Do not remain involved in any misunderstanding. Your complete record is being prepared. There are trustworthy writers who are writing down whatever you do." In conclusion, it has been forcefully stated that the Day of Resurrection will surely take place when the righteous shall enjoy every kind of bliss in Paradise and the wicked shall be punished in Hell. On that day no one shall avail anyone anything. All powers of judgement shall be with Allah.
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