The Quran

وَأَشرَقَتِ الأَرضُ بِنورِ رَبِّها وَوُضِعَ الكِتابُ وَجِيءَ بِالنَّبِيّينَ وَالشُّهَداءِ وَقُضِيَ بَينَهُم بِالحَقِّ وَهُم لا يُظلَمونَ

Muhammad Asad

And the earth will shine bright with her Sustainer's light.¹ And the record [of everyone's deeds] will be laid bare,² and all the prophets will be brought forward, and all [other] witnesses;³ and judgment will be passed on them all in justice. And they will not be wronged,

I.e., with a clear revelation of His will. See also 14:48, where it is stated that on Resurrection Day "the earth shall be changed into another earth, as shall be the heavens". A further allusion to this transformation (and not annihilation) of the universe is found in 20:105-107.
Cf. 17:13-14 (and the corresponding note 18); also 18:49.
See 4:41 and the corresponding note 52. Accordingly, the above phrase may well have the meaning of "all the prophets as witnesses", i.e., for or against those to whom they conveyed God's message. In all probability, however, the term shuhada' (or ashhad in 40:51) signifies here - as its singular shahid obviously does in 50:21 - man's newly-awakened consciousness, which will compel him to bear witness against himself on Judgment Day (cf. 6: 130, 17:14, 24:24, 36:65, 41:20 ff.).