77:1وَالْمُرْسَلَاتِ عُرْفًا
By the [angelic] emissaries sent successively,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:1
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:1]
Aqa Mahdi Puya says:
Mursalat, in addition to the winds sent forth, refers to all the communicating agencies who convey the divine blessings and grace to the created beings in various stages and realms, such as prophets, angels and other conscious and unconscious functionaries in the activity of communication.
The winds are an important factor in governing the physical world. They bring the blessings of rain and fertility (Hijr: 22 and Rum: 48). They scatter seeds far and wide, separate chaff from grains, and clear pollution from the environment. There are innumerable benefits for mankind as well as other creatures in the blowing of the winds. They not only come on beneficent errands of mercy but also as violent tornadoes, uprooting and destroying, charged with the wrath of Allah to punish or to give a warning.
Verses 5 and 6, as Aqa Puya has suggested, also refer to prophets and messengers of Allah. The prophets have followed one another, the verses, of the Quran came, one after another, to provide guidance for man's spiritual salvation. They uprooted the spiritually decadent human society.
They sorted out believers and disbelievers in the path of Allah.
77:2فَالْعَاصِفَاتِ عَصْفًا
by those who sweep along like gale,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:2
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:2] (see commentary for verse 1)
77:3وَالنَّاشِرَاتِ نَشْرًا
by those who publish [the Divine messages] far and wide,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:3
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:3] (see commentary for verse 1)
77:4فَالْفَارِقَاتِ فَرْقًا
by those who separate [the truth from falsehood] distinctly,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:4
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:4] (see commentary for verse 1)
77:5فَالْمُلْقِيَاتِ ذِكْرًا
by those who inspire [God’s] remembrance,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:5
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:5] (see commentary for verse 1)
77:6عُذْرًا أَوْ نُذْرًا
as exemption or warning:
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:6
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:6] (see commentary for verse 1)
77:7إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَوَاقِعٌ
what you are promised will surely befall.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:7
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:7]
These verses refer to the events that will happen on the day of resurrection.
The prophets, sent in succession at different times to all nations, will be gathered together in one place before the seat of judgement to bear witness as to the righteous or the unjust among their followers and the Holy Prophet as a witness over all the prophets of Allah. See commentary of Bara-at: 105; Nisa: 41; Nahl: 89 and Baqarah: 143).
77:8فَإِذَا النُّجُومُ طُمِسَتْ
When the stars are blotted out
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:8
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:8] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:9وَإِذَا السَّمَاءُ فُرِجَتْ
and the sky is cleft,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 77:9
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:9] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:10وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ نُسِفَتْ
when the mountains are scattered [like dust]
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:10] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:11وَإِذَا الرُّسُلُ أُقِّتَتْ
and time is set for the apostles [to bear witness]
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:11] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:12لِأَيِّ يَوْمٍ أُجِّلَتْ
—for what day has [all] that been set [to occur]?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:12] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:13لِيَوْمِ الْفَصْلِ
For the Day of Judgement!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:13] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:14وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا يَوْمُ الْفَصْلِ
And what will show you what is the Day of Judgement!?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:14] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:15وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:15] (see commentary for verse 7)
77:16أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ الْأَوَّلِينَ
Did We not destroy the former generations,
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:16]
Refer to Araf, Hud and Yunus for the destruction of the people of Nuh, Lut, Hud, Salih and Firawn (in the time of Musa).
77:17ثُمَّ نُتْبِعُهُمُ الْآخِرِينَ
[and] then made the latter ones follow them?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:17]
As said in verse 13, on the day of judgement good will be completely separated from evil. Those who chose falsehood and belied truth will be the losers, therefore "Woe on that day unto the beliers!" has been repeated as a march of punishment unto the disbelievers.
Refer to the commentary of Hajj: 5 for verses 20 to 23.
Refer to the commentary of Nahl: 15 for verses 25 to 27.
Refer to the commentary of Nur: 24 for verses 35 and 36.
Aqa Mahdi Puya says:
The beliers were given plain and clear guidance but they refused to accept it.
77:18كَذَلِكَ نَفْعَلُ بِالْمُجْرِمِينَ
That is how We deal with the guilty.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:18] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:19وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:19] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:20أَلَمْ نَخْلُقكُّم مِّن مَّاءٍ مَّهِينٍ
Have We not created you from a base fluid,
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:20] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:21فَجَعَلْنَاهُ فِي قَرَارٍ مَّكِينٍ
[and] then lodged it in a secure abode
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:21] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:22إِلَى قَدَرٍ مَّعْلُومٍ
until a known span [of time]?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:22] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:23فَقَدَرْنَا فَنِعْمَ الْقَادِرُونَ
Then We determined; and how excellent determiners We are!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:23] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:24وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:24] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:25أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفَاتًا
Have We not made the earth a receptacle
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:25] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:26أَحْيَاءً وَأَمْوَاتًا
for the living and the dead,
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:26] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:27وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ شَامِخَاتٍ وَأَسْقَيْنَاكُم مَّاءً فُرَاتًا
and set in it lofty [and] firm mountains, and given you agreeable water to drink?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:27] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:28وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:28] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:29انطَلِقُوا إِلَى مَا كُنتُم بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ
[The faithless will be told:] ‘Proceed toward what you used to deny!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:29] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:30انطَلِقُوا إِلَى ظِلٍّ ذِي ثَلَاثِ شُعَبٍ
Proceed toward the triple-forked shadow,
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:30] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:31لَّا ظَلِيلٍ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنَ اللَّهَبِ
neither shady nor of any avail against the flames.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:31] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:32إِنَّهَا تَرْمِي بِشَرَرٍ كَالْقَصْرِ
Indeed it throws up [giant] sparks like castles,
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:32] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:33كَأَنَّهُ جِمَالَتٌ صُفْرٌ
[bright] like yellow camels.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:33] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:34وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:34] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:35هَذَا يَوْمُ لَا يَنطِقُونَ
This is a day wherein they will not speak,
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:35] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:36وَلَا يُؤْذَنُ لَهُمْ فَيَعْتَذِرُونَ
nor will they be permitted to offer excuses.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:36] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:37وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:37] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:38هَذَا يَوْمُ الْفَصْلِ جَمَعْنَاكُمْ وَالْأَوَّلِينَ
‘This is the Day of Judgement. We have brought you together with the former generations.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:38] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:39فَإِن كَانَ لَكُمْ كَيْدٌ فَكِيدُونِ
If you have any stratagems [left], try them out against Me!’
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:39] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:40وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:40] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:41إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي ظِلَالٍ وَعُيُونٍ
Indeed the Godwary will be amid shades and springs
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:41] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:42وَفَوَاكِهَ مِمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ
and [enjoying] such fruits as they desire.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:42] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:43كُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا هَنِيئًا بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
[They will be told:] ‘Enjoy your food and drink, [a reward] for what you used to do.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:43] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:44إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ
Thus do We reward the virtuous.’
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:44] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:45وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:45] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:46كُلُوا وَتَمَتَّعُوا قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُم مُّجْرِمُونَ
‘Eat and enjoy a little! You are indeed guilty.’
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:46] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:47وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:47] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:48وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ارْكَعُوا لَا يَرْكَعُونَ
When they are told, ‘Bow down [in prayer],’ they do not bow down!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:48] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:49وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe to the deniers on that day!
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:49] (see commentary for verse 17)
77:50فَبِأَيِّ حَدِيثٍ بَعْدَهُ يُؤْمِنُونَ
So what discourse will they believe after this?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 77:50] (see commentary for verse 17)
