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No. Q099
Commentary on the Koran: Surah 99 “The Earthquake”
(Edition 1.5 20180531-20201228)
This is a Very Early Beccan
Surah, dealing with the Last Days.
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Commentary on the Koran: Surah 99
“The Earthquake”
Pickthall
Translation; Bible Quotes are from the English Standard Version unless
otherwise noted.
Introduction
The final
earthquake will be its greatest and following that the earth and mankind will
be shown their activities in the areas in which they caused harm and their sins
and deeds recounted to them.
Az- Zilzal takes its name from the quake referred to in verse 1.
It is a Very Early Beccan Surah.
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99.1. When Earth is shaken with her
(final) earthquake
Matthew 24:29-30 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Zechariah 14:4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.
Revelation 11:13 And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Revelation 16:18 And there were flashes of
lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there
had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
99.2. And Earth yieldeth up her burdens,
99.3. And man saith: What aileth her?
99.4. That day she will relate her chronicles,
99.5. Because thy Lord inspireth her.
Refer to:
Revelation 20:13 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 17 (No. Q017) at ayat 15; John 5:28-29 in Commentary
on the Koran: Surah 21 (No. Q021) at ayat 47 and Daniel 12:2 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 24 (No. Q024) at ayat 42.
Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Mark 13:24-25 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
Revelation 6:13-17 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
99.6. That day mankind will issue forth
in scattered groups to be shown their deeds.
99.7. And whoso doeth good an atom's weight
will see it then,
99.8. And whoso doeth ill an atom's
weight will see it then.
Read Matthew 25
verses 31 to 46 for the parable of the sheep and the goats.
Refer to:
Revelation 20:11-15 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 17 (No. Q017) at ayat 15; Psalm 28:4 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 24 (No. Q024) at ayat 13 and Romans
2:6-8 in Commentary on the Koran:
Surah 45 (No. Q045) at ayat 15.
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