Surah Az-Zalzala (99) — Ayah 4
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
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The Testimony of the Earth on the Day of Resurrection:
Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah ؓ reports that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited this verse, he asked the Companions رضی اللہ عنہم: "Do you know what its news is?" The Companions رضی اللہ عنہم replied: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He ﷺ said: "Its news is that it will testify about every servant, male and female, regarding what deeds he performed on my back. It will say: On such and such a day, he did such and such deeds. These are its news." [ترمذي، ابواب التفسير]
The people of ancient times might have been astonished at the earth giving such news, but the people of today are witnessing all this with their own eyes in this world. After the invention of video film, this matter is no longer surprising for mankind, in which the entire scene of the incident is presented, and every person's conversation is recorded and the events are connected in such a way that the viewer does not feel that he is watching a film instead of the actual event. The deeds that man is performing in this world—all their films are being prepared. Similarly, every person's voices are preserved in the atmosphere, and the effects of his deeds that are imprinted on the earth—these very things will be presented and narrated by the earth on that day.
