Surah Ar-Room (30) — Ayah 55
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
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55-2. In the world or in their graves, they will swear false oaths according to their habit, because only the duration they spent in the world will be known to them. And if what is meant is the life of the grave, then their oath will be based on ignorance because they will not know the duration of the grave. Some say that compared to the terrors and dreadful conditions of the Hereafter, the life of this world will seem to them like a moment.
55-3. The meaning of "afaka ar-rajulu" is: he turned away from the truth. The meaning will be: just as he turned away, they kept wandering or straying in the world.
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The Guesses of the Disbelievers Will Be Wrong Both in This World and in the Hereafter:
This period could refer to the worldly life, or to the realm of Barzakh, or to both. Although the criminals are punished in the grave as well, this punishment is so light compared to the punishment of the Hereafter that the criminals will even consider the torment of the grave as moments of comfort. Upon seeing their fate and the punishment for themselves on the Day of Resurrection, they will swear repeatedly that they only stayed in the world for a single hour. They will wish, "How good it would have been if we had spent that little time in obedience to Allah, and had not been destined to see this evil day." That will be their estimation there, and in the world they make such estimations and act as if they are to remain in this world forever. They are heedless of Allah and of their own death. Their estimations in the world were also wrong and utterly false. In the Hereafter, they will continue to make wrong estimations.
