The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 318
CH. 69 AL-ḤĀQQAH will say, 'O! would that I had not been given my record! 4358 27. Nor known what reckoning was! my 28. O! would that death had made an end of me! 4359 29. My wealth has been of no avail to me. 30. My power has gone from me. ' 31. The angels will be commanded, "Seize him and fetter him, 32. Then cast him into Hell. PT. 29 فَيَقُولُ يُلَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَوْتَ كِتَبِيَة ® وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَّة يُلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ الْقَاضِيَةَ مَا أَغْنَى عَنِّي مَالِيَة ® هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَنِيَة ® خُذُوهُ فَعلُوهُ ثُمَّ الْجَحِيمَ صَلُّوهُ ثُمَّ فِي سِلْسِلَةِ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا Then put him into a chain. 33 فَاسْلُكُوْهُ the length of which is seventy cubits;4360 4358. Commentary: a76:5. To be given one's record in one's left hand, in Quranic terminology represents failure in a test. Elsewhere in the Quran (56:42) the guilty have been described as "fellows of the left hand. " 4359. Commentary: Disbelievers would wish death to be the end of all things so that there should be no other life and no rendering of account of their actions before God. 4360. Commentary: It has repeatedly been explained in the Quran that life after death is not a 3214 new life but only an image and manifestation of the present one. In these verses the spiritual torture of the present world has been represented as a physical punishment in the next world. The chain to be put round the neck, for instance, represents the desires of this world which keep a man's head bent upon the earth, and it is these desires that will assume the form of a chain in the life to come. Similarly, the entanglements of this world will be seen as chains on the feet. The heart- burning of this world will likewise appear as the flames of burning fire. The wicked man in fact has in this very world within himself a hell of