Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Inshiqaaq, Ayah 19
لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍۢ
[That] you will surely experience state after state.
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you will surely journey tarkabunna is actually tarkabūnanna but the nūn of the indicative has been omitted because of two identical letters following one another and the wāw is omitted because of two unvocalised consonants coming together from stage to stage state after state namely death then life then what comes afterwards of the states at the Resurrection.
Related Hadiths
Sahih al-Bukhari#4733Sahih
(as regards the Verse):--'You shall surely travel from stage to stage (in this life and in the Hereafter).' (It means) from one state to another. That concerns your Prophet.
Narrated by Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
Sahih Muslim#297Sahih
What will be your state when the son of Mary descends amongst you and there will be an Imam amongst you?
Narrated by It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed:
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(That ye shall journey) the whole creation shall be transformed (on from plane to plane) from one state to another; from the time He created them until the time they die, and from the time they die until they enter either Paradise or hell: in all these times Allah transforms them from one state to another; it is also said that this means: you shall journey, O Muhammad, from one heaven to another on the day of the ascent; and it is also said that this means: this denier will go from one state to another, from the time he dies until he enters the Fire.