The Day you see it, every nursing mother will abandon what she is nursing, and every pregnant woman will deliver her burden ˹prematurely˺. And you will see people ˹as if they were˺ drunk, though they will not be drunk; but the torment of Allah is ˹terribly˺ severe.
I noticed a link between the first ayahs of surah Hajj- where Allah tells us to fear Him as the violent quaking of the Hour is sure to come, and the final ayah where Allah says that He has chosen us as muslims and not made this religion hard, and the reminder to hold fast to Allah by establishing prayer, zakat, following the Quran and Sunnah.
We may feel scared reciting the first ayahs where Allah describes horrifying situation that will occur ...
Eloquence can be measured many ways, particularly in the arabic language, and our scholars of Balagha (rhetoric) have gone to great lengths in order to codify the science in a way that makes it possible for a skilled critic to compare different types of speech, in order to gauge which one is most eloquent.
One technique used often in the Quran is Eejaz (conciseness), which is the ability to use words or sentences that pack much more meaning tha...
7 years ago · Referencing Surah 22 and Ayah 22:1-2
In verse 1, put simply, God did not come to play. Allah sets the scene for very serious warnings. Allah uses the world 'zalzalat' in reference to the Day of Judgement, and while it refers to the physical quaking/shaking of the Earth, we can understand it as so awe-strikingly terrifying that it 'shakes' each creation of Allah; human, jinn, animals, and even mountains. In the second verse, Allah describes events we find incredibly off-putting in th...