وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ
Wa wujoohuy yauma-izin 'alaiha ghabar a
And [other] faces, that Day, will have upon them dust.
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Day of Judgment
80:40Ayah 142
6 ayahs in Abasa are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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And some faces on that day will be covered with dust
Related Hadiths
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "People will be gathered in three classes on the Day of Resurrection: A class walking, a class riding, and a class upon their faces." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! How will they walk upon their faces?" He said: "Indeed the One Who made them walk upon their feet, is able to make them walk upon their faces. Verily they will try to protect their faces from every bump and thorn."
"The Hour shall not be established until you fight a people whose sandals are made out of hair, and the Hour shall not be established until you fight a people whose faces will look like shields coated with leather."
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "Near the Hour you will fight with people who will wear hairy shoes;
and you will also fight people with flat faces like shields."
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "One of the portents of the Hour is that you will fight with people wearing shoes
made of hair; and one of the portents of the Hour is that you will fight with broad-faced people whose
faces will look like shields coated with leather."
This hadith is narrated by Anas with another chain of transmitters, and in the hadith transmitted by Jarir there is no mention of" turning (faces)".
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