Tafseer Surah al-Ghashiyah (ﺔﯿﺷﺎﻐﻟا)
Notes on Nouman Ali Khan’s Concise Commentary of the Quran
By Rameez Abid
Introduction
I. The entire surah
is dedicated to warning
A. It just briefly delves into pleasure of paradise as a relief to the believing listeners but
then returns to the warning
II. It is a very visual depiction of some of the things that will occur on Day of Judgement
III. It can be divided into three parts
A. Warning of the Day of Judgement
1. A brief relief for the believer
B. Contemplation of the world around us
C. Warning of punishment
Tafseer of the Verses
1. Has there reached you the report of the covering one?
a. Listener here is being told to remember something and revisit that memory anew
b. The ‘covering one’ is in reference to the Day of Judgement
i. It is called this because nobody will be able to escape it and it will cover
everyone
1. It will also hover over our minds on the Day of Judgement and we will not
be able to think of anything else. People will not be able to believe what is
happening before their eyes due to its horrors
2. [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled
a. People will be able to tell the sadness of people just through the expression on their
faces on the Day of Judgement
b. They will be humbled, fearful, and overpowered on that day
i. Such people did not volunteer themselves to feel this way in this life so they will
be forced to feel it on the Day of Judgement
3. Working [hard] and exhausted
a. This is because their time in the grave was not that of rest but punishment
b. This verse is alluding to the fact that there is a life that occurs in the grave
4. They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire
a. This is in reference to hell
b. It is a fire that will be at its max heat
5. They will be given drink from a boiling spring
