Ya ayyuha alnnasu ittaqoo rabbakum inna zalzalata alssaAAati shayon AAatheemun
English
Ahmed Ali
O YOU PEOPLE, fear your Lord. The great upheaval of the Hour will indeed be terrible.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : and from his narration on the authority of ibn 'abbas who said in explaining allah's words (o mankind!): '(o mankind!) this expression could be of general applicability ('amm) as it could be of particular applicability (khass); here, it is an expression of general applicability. (fear your lord) and obey him. (lo! the earthquake of the hour (of doom)) the advent of the hour (is a tremendous thing) its horror is horrendous.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : o mankind, that is, the inhabitants of mecca and others: fear your lord, that is, of his punishment, by being obedient to him. surely the earthquake of the hour [of doom], that is, the violent quaking of the earth after which the sun will rise from the west, [something] which will be near [the time of] the hour, is a tremendous thing, in the way it will distress people — this itself being a sort of punishment.
