The Quran

Preface

يَومَ يَجمَعُكُم لِيَومِ الجَمعِ ۖ ذٰلِكَ يَومُ التَّغابُنِ ۗ وَمَن يُؤمِن بِاللَّهِ وَيَعمَل صالِحًا يُكَفِّر عَنهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِ وَيُدخِلهُ جَنّاتٍ تَجري مِن تَحتِهَا الأَنهارُ خالِدينَ فيها أَبَدًا ۚ ذٰلِكَ الفَوزُ العَظيمُ

Yusuf Ali

The Day that He assembles you (all) for a Day of Assembly,- that will be a Day of mutual loss¹ and gain (among you), and those who believe in God and work righteousness,- He will remove from them² their ills, and He will admit them to Gardens beneath which³ Rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever: that will be the Supreme Achievement.

The Day of Judgment will truly be “a Day of Mutual Loss and Gain”, as the title of this Sūra indicates. Men who thought they were laying up riches will find themselves paupers in the Kingdom of Heaven. Men who thought they were acquiring good by wrongdoing will find their efforts were wasted; 18:104. On the other hand the meek and lowly of this life will acquire greater dignity and honour in the next; the despised ones doing good here will be the accepted ones there; the persecuted righteous will be in eternal happiness. The two classes will as it were change their relative positions.
Remove from them their ills. The ills may be sins, faults, mistakes, or evil tendencies; God will of His grace cover them up, and blot out the account against them; or they may be sorrows, sufferings, or disappointments: God may even change the evil of such persons into good, their apparent calamities into opportunities for spiritual advancement; 25:70. This is because of their sincere Faith as evidenced by their repentance and amendment.
“Gardens” the symbol of the highest Bliss, see 2:25, n. 44; 13:35; 47:15. (R).