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Sura 82
Aya 18
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ثُمَّ ما أَدراكَ ما يَومُ الدّينِ

Yusuf Ali

Again, what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?1
  • From our ordinary experience of this life, we can form no conception of the Final Judgment. We can speak of Rewards and Punishments, the Fruits of Actions, the Resurrection and the Tribunal, the Restoration of True Values, the Elimination of all Wrong, and a hundred other phrases. They might serve to introduce our minds vaguely to a new World, of which they cannot possibly form any adequate conception under present conditions. The question is repeated in verses 17-18 to emphasize this difficulty, and a simple answer is suggested, as explained in the next note.