Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:88
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 88 of 96
فَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ
Translation
If that dying person is one of those who will be brought near to God,
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And if he was of those brought near...' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note the Surah now shows what waits on the other side of that throat, according to which of the three classes the dying soul belongs to, beginning with the highest, the 'muqarrabun', the brought-near. Ask yourself: the deathbed is not an end but a threshold, and this verse turns to what lies immediately beyond it. My whole life is, in a sense, sorting me into one of these three envelopes to be opened at that moment. It presses the most practical question a person can ask: which of the three am I preparing to be? Not in theory, but by the actual grain of how I live, for the answer given at the throat is set by the road I am walking right now.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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