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Surah An-Naazi'aat (79) — Ayah 46

Those who drag forth · Meccan · Juz 30 · Page 584

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَىٰهَا ﴿46﴾
The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning.
كَأَنَّهُمْ ka-annahum As though they
يَوْمَ yawma (the) Day
يَرَوْنَهَا yarawnahā they see it
لَمْ lam not
يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ yalbathū they had remained
إِلَّا illā except
عَشِيَّةً ʿashiyyatan an evening
أَوْ aw or
ضُحَىٰهَا ḍuḥāhā a morning thereof

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(Ayah 46){ كَاَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا … :} That is, the Resurrection which they consider to be very far off, when it comes, it will seem to them as if they had stayed in the world only for the latter part of the day or its first part, not even a full day. To understand the example, just look back at your past life.

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46. 1. That is, they will not even have remained in the world for a full day; only the first part of the day or the last part of the day they will have spent in the world, meaning the life of this world will seem so brief to them.

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46. When they see it, it will seem to them as if they had stayed (in the world) only for an evening or a morning [29].

[29] Regarding past events, a person thinks that an incident which occurred decades ago is as if it happened just yesterday. This is the state of this worldly life, in which he observes the alternation of night and day and can calculate the months and years. However, in the realm of Barzakh, there will be no day or night, just as after three hundred years had passed over the People of the Cave, they could not determine whether they had slept in the cave for a whole day or just part of a day. Exactly this situation will occur for people on the Day of Resurrection, and the disbelievers, upon witnessing the Day of Resurrection, will think that their worldly life did not even last a full day. Alas, if only we had spent this short period in obedience to Allah Almighty and come here in that state.