Verse. 4151

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (warn them) o muhammad (of the day of the approaching (doom)) of the horrors of the day of doom which is the day of judgement, (when the hearts will be choking the throats) because of grief and distress due to the exasperation they feel inwardly, ((when) there will be no friend) no close friend to help (for the wrong-doers) for the idolaters, (nor any intercessor who will be heard) upon interceding for them.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and warn them of the impending day, namely, the day of resurrection (al-azifa, as in azifa al-rahīlu, ‘departure is very near’) when the hearts will, rising up in fear, reach the throats, choking with anguish, filled with [suppressed] anxiety (kāzimīna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to al-qulūbu, ‘the hearts’, which is qualified by the [active animate participle] plural [kāzimīna] and referred to as though they were the very individuals themselves). the evildoers will not have any intimate [friend], [any] sympathiser, nor any intercessor who might be heeded — the adjectival qualification [‘who might be heeded’] has no [literal] significance, for they do not have intercessors in the first place: so [now] we have no intercessors … [q. 26:100]. the first part, however, may [be said to] have significance if [understand] on the basis of their claim to have intercessors, and so, in other words, even if — hypothetically speaking — they [their intercessors] did intercede for them, they would not be heeded.