Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Muzzammil, Ayah 14
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Other Scholars on This Ayah
Tafsir
on the day when the earth and the mountains will quake and the mountains will be like heaps of shifting sand mahīl derives from hāla yahīlu; it is actually mahyūl but the damma sound is considered too heavy for the yā’ and is therefore transposed onto the hā’ while the wāw the second of two unvocalised consonants is omitted on account of it being extra and the damma is replaced by a kasra because of its phonetic affinity the letter yā’.
Related Hadiths
“Just before the Hour comes there will be transformations, the earth collapsing, and Qadhf. (i.e. the throwing of stones perhaps as a means of punishment – maybe it refers to landslides).”
“There will be among my nation collapsing of the earth, transformations, and Qadhf.”
“At the end of my nation there will be the earth collapsing, transformations, and Qadhf.”
"The Messenger of Allah said: This Hosue will be attacked by an army, and they will be swallowed up by the earth in Al-Baida'."
“Uncover a mountain of gold”.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
Then Allah explained when this will take place, saying: (On the day when the earth and the hills rock) on the day when the earth and the mountains will quake, (and the hills become a heap of running sand.