Surah Ya-Sin 36:32
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 32 of 83
وَإِن كُلٌّۭ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌۭ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ
Translation
[Yet] all of them will be brought before Us.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And indeed, all of them will be gathered, brought before Us.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the counterpart to the previous verse: the dead do not return to this world, but not one of them is lost, every scattered generation is collected and made present before Him. Nothing slips through. Ask yourself: I can find the idea of countless forgotten lives strangely comforting, as if being one of billions means I might quietly disappear, unaccounted for. This verse closes that exit: 'all of them, brought before Us.' My life is not a drop lost in an ocean of anonymity; it is on a guest-list with my name on it. Does living as 'unaccountable' still hold up, if I am, in fact, expected?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, Ibn Kathir.
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