Surah Al-Kahf 18:99
سُورَةُ الكَهۡفِ · Meccan · Verse 99 of 110
۞ وَتَرَكْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَمُوجُ فِى بَعْضٍۢ ۖ وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَجَمَعْنَٰهُمْ جَمْعًۭا
Translation
On that Day, We shall let them surge against each other like waves and then the Trumpet will be blown and We shall gather them all together.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And We will leave them, that Day, surging over one another; and the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them all together.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the scene shifting from the barrier that held one force back to the Day when all barriers dissolve, humanity surging like waves, then gathered, every last one, at the Trumpet's blast. Ask yourself: the mighty barrier Dhul-Qarnayn built, for all its iron and copper, is nothing against that Day, the greatest human structures and divisions collapse when the Trumpet sounds and all are gathered. It re-sizes every wall I build, political, personal, defensive, against the one gathering that levels them all. The barriers I trust to keep me safe or separate are provisional; the gathering is final and includes everyone. Am I so focused on the walls of this life that I've forgotten the Day when every wall falls and all are assembled together, undivided, before Him?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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