| Woe, that Day, to the deniers: 11) those who deny the Day of Judgement, 12) and no one denies it save every sinful transgressor. 13) When Our Signs are recited to him, he says, ‘Fables of the ancient!’ 14) No indeed! Rather, what they have earned has rusted up their hearts. 15) No indeed! That Day, they will be veiled from their Lord. 16) Then they will roast in the Blazing Furnace. 17) Then they will be told, ‘This is what you used to deny.’ |
“No indeed! The record of the dissolute,” this is general for all types of wicked people: the disbelievers, the hypocrites and the iniquitous, “is in Sijjin,” proceeding to explain what this is: “What will make you realise what Sijjin is? It is a register indelibly inscribed,” mentioning therein their vile deeds. Sijjin is a constricted and confined place and it is the opposite of `Illiyyin which is the place for the record of the righteous as will be mentioned later. It is also said that Sijjin is the lowest part of the seventh earth, the place of the wicked and their place of residence when they are resurrected. “Woe, that Day, to the deniers:” then proceeding to explain who they are with His words, “those who deny the Day of Judgement,” the Day of Recompense, the Day in which Allah will judge man for his deeds.“And no one denies it save every sinful” i.e. committing many sins “transgressor,” transgressing the limits of Allah, overstepping the lawful and trespassing into the unlawful. It is this person whose enmity leads him to denial and whose arrogance leads him to reject the truth, hence Allah says, “When Our signs,” directing towards the truth and proving the truth of what the Messengers came with “are recited to him,” he denies them and obdurately rejects them and “says, ‘Fables of the ancient!’” fabrications concocted by the earlier generations and tales of nations long-gone; not from Allah.
As for the one who is just and desires to attain the manifest truth, such a person will not deny the Day of Judgement because Allah has erected clear evidences and signs pointing to its reality, such signs as would lead a person to have certain knowledge of it, such signs that would lead his spiritual sight to see it in the same manner that his physical sight sees the sun. “No indeed! Rather, what they have earned has rusted up their hearts,” However the person whose deeds have rusted up his heart and whose sins have hemmed him in, is veiled from the truth[3] “No indeed! That Day, they will be veiled from their Lord,” a fitting recompense, he will be veiled from Allah just as his heart was veiled from the Signs of Allah in this world. “Then” in addition to this severe punishment “they will roast in the Blazing Furnace. Then they will be told,” by way of censure and rebuke, “‘This is what you used to deny.’” Three punishments have been mentioned here: the punishment of Hell, the punishment of rebuke and blame, and the punishment of being veiled from the Lord of the worlds. This last punishment is the greatest of the three for it includes His being displeased and angry with them.
One also understands from this verse that the believers will see their Lord on the Day of Judgment in Paradise. They will take delight in looking on at Him and this delight will supersede all other delights in Paradise. They will rejoice at His discourse with them and feel extreme joy at His closeness. This has been mentioned by Allah in a number of verses in the Qur’an and there are concurrent ahadith concerning it from the Messenger of Allah (SAW).
These verses serve to warn one against sins because they show that sins, little by little, rust the heart and veil it until its light is extinguished, its spiritual sight dies, and it views reality in its opposite light such that it sees falsehood as truth and truth as falsehood – this is one of the greatest punishments of sin.
| 18) No indeed! The record of the righteous is in `Illiyyin. 19) What will make you realise what `Illiyyun is? 20) It is a register indelibly inscribed, 21) which those brought near [to Allah] will witness. |
“No indeed! The record of the righteous is in `Illiyin,” after mentioning that the record of the wicked is in the lowest and most confined of places, Allah mentions that the record of the righteous is in the highest and vastest of places. “What will make you realise what ‘Illiyun is? It is a register indelibly inscribed, which those brought near [to Allah] will witness,” the noble Angels, the souls of the Prophets, the Sincerely Truthful and the Martyrs. Allah will laud them by mentioning them in this Exalted Company. `Illiyun is a term referring to the highest part of Paradise.
| 22) The righteous will be in bliss: 23) [seated] on couches, gazing [in wonder]. 24) |
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