The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 324
CH. 23 AL-MU'MINÜN the day when they shall be raised again. 2579 PT. 18 فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِي الصُّوْرِ فَلَا أَنْسَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ And when the trumpet is. 102 blown, there will be no ties of relationship between them that day, nor will they ask after one another. 2580 يَوْمَئِذٍ وَلَا يَتَسَاءَلُونَ b فَمَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَيكَ هُمُ Then those whose scales. 103 are heavy with good works— "18:100; 36:52; 50:21; 69:14. b7:9; 101:7-8. mind, on the other, it expresses his a well-known ḥadīth: respect for God. 2579. Important Words: * means, a barrier; a bar; a thing that intervenes between any two things; an obstruction or a thing that separates two things; the interval from the time of death to the Day of Resurrection. The word is technically applied to the period or state from the day of death to the Day of Resurrection (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: أصدق كلمة قالها لبيد ، الاكل شيء ما خلا الله باطل i. e. the truest sentence is the one which the poet Labid uttered and which is to the effect, "Everything besides God is subject to destruction. " See also 4:172. The verse incidentally disproves a commonly held belief that a man passes into Heaven or Hell immediately after his death. In fact after death he lives in which is an intermediate state of incomplete The word (that) conveys the idea realization of the punishments or of doubt. As used here the word shows that the disbeliever will have been so deeply impressed by God's Greatness and Majesty and his own insignificance that he dare not declare with certainty that he will make amends for what he had left undone in life on earth. He only expresses a hope that he will do righteous deeds if he were sent back to this world. The word ab has been used in the verse, as at several other places in the Quran in the sense of a full sentence. The Holy Prophet also used the word in the sense of a complete sentence in 2238 rewards of Hell or Heaven respectively or a state of preparation for their complete and full realization. The Quran has compared barzakh to the embryonic state and the resurrection to the birth of the fully developed soul. 2580. Commentary: The verse means to say that when punishment overtakes a people, nobility of pedigree, descent or relationship proves of no avail. On the Judgement Day also good works alone will be of use or benefit to man and not his blood relations or friendships.