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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Ar-Rum — Ayah 55

30:55
وَيَوۡمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يُقۡسِمُ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ مَا لَبِثُواْ غَيۡرَ سَاعَةٖۚ كَذَٰلِكَ كَانُواْ يُؤۡفَكُونَ ٥٥
On that Day when the Hour will come to pass1 the wicked shall swear that they had stayed (in the world) no more than an hour.2 Thus they used to be deceived in the life of the world.3
Footnotes
  • [1] That is, Resurrection, which is being foretold here.
  • [2] That is, from the time of death till Resurrection. Even if thousands of years might have elapsed since their death they will feel that they had gone to sleep a few hours earlier and then a sudden calamity had roused them from sleep.
  • [3] That is, “They used to make similar wrong estimates in the world. There also they lacked the realization of reality, and therefore, used to assert that there was going to be no Resurrection, no life-after-death, and no accountability before God.”
  • [4] Qira’at: Al-Bazzi read it as: “But if you pl turn away . . .”
  • [5] Literally ‘scripture’.
  • [6] Six equal intervals of time, which may be six heavenly days, each of them being 1000 earthly years long (see 22:47).