ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
The Catastrophe!
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 101:1
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 101:1] The dawn of the day of resurrection and judgement has been described in al Ghashiyah and al Zilzal. A tremendous stunning noise will be heard before the day of judgement. The whole of the present order of existence will be overthrown. All our present landmarks will be lost. It will inaugurate a new existence of true and permanent values, in which every human deed will have its just recompense as if weighed in balance, as stated in verses 6 to 9 below. No one can have the idea of the confusion, distress and helplessness with which men will find themselves overwhelmed on the day of judgement, because nothing even near to the terrible convulsion has ever been experienced by man on the earth. Moths are frail light things. To see them scattered about in a violent storm gives some idea of the nature of calamity men will encounter on the day of judgement when the mountains will scatter about like flakes of carded wool. See Ma-arij :9.