فَإِذَا ٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ وَرْدَةًۭ كَٱلدِّهَانِ
Fa-izan shaqqatis samaaa'u fakaanat wardatan kaddihaan
And when the heaven is split open and becomes rose-colored like oil -
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Day of Judgment
55:37Ayah 178
3 ayahs in Ar-Rahmaan are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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And when the heaven is split open when it becomes open with many gates in preparation for the descent of the angels and it turns crimson wardatan literally ‘a rose’ in other words red like this rose like tanned leather red skins in contrast to its the heaven’s usual appearance the response to idhā ‘when’ is along the lines of fa-mā a‘zama’l-hawli ‘How great will be the terror then!’.
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