هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا ٱلسَّاعَةَ أَن تَأْتِيَهُم بَغْتَةًۭ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Hal yanzuroona illas Saa'ata an taatiyahum baghtatanw wa hum laa yash'uroon
Are they waiting except for the Hour to come upon them suddenly while they perceive not?
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Day of Judgment
43:66Ayah 189
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Are they that is the Meccan disbelievers awaiting anything that is to say — they are in fact awaiting nothing — but that Hour should come upon them an ta’tiyahum substitutes for al-sā‘ata ‘the Hour’ suddenly unexpectedly while they are unaware? of the time of its coming beforehand.
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"Race to do works against seven. Are you waiting but for overwhelming poverty, or distracting richness, or debilitating illness, or babbling senility, or sudden death, or the Dajjal, so that hidden evil is what is awaited, or the Hour? The Hour is more calamitous and more bitter." (Daif)
The Last Hour would come (so sudden) that a person would be milking the she- camel and the (milk) would not reach the brim of the vessel that the Last Hour would come, and the two persons would be engaged in buying and selling of the clothes and their bargain would not be struck before the Last Hour would come. And someone would be setting his tank in order and he would have hardly set it right when the Last Hour would come.
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