The Isolation of the Disbelievers and Their Rebuke on the Day of Resurrection
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And He says ‘Stand apart O you sinners on this day! in other words separate yourselves from the believers — said to them upon their mingling with the latter.
Did I not charge you command you O children of Adam by the tongues of My messengers that you should not worship Satan that you should not obey him; truly he is a manifest enemy to you one whose enmity...
and that you should worship Me and that you should affirm My Oneness and obey Me — that is the straight path?
For verily he has led astray from among you many a creature jibillan is the plural of jabīl similar in pattern to qadīm ‘old’; a variant reading has jubulan. Did you not use to comprehend? his enmity ...
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I heard Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying: Verily, the Satan has lost all hopes that the worshippers would ever worship (him) in the peninsula of Arabia, but he (is hopeful) that he would sow the seed of ...
You (only) observe fast on this day.
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The Isolation of the Disbelievers and Their Rebuke on the Day of Resurrection
Allah tells us what the end of the disbelievers will be on the Day of Resurrection, when He commands them to get apart from the believers, i.e., to stand apart from the believers. This is like the Ayat:
وَيَوْمَ نَحْشُرُهُمْ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ نَقُولُ لِلَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُواْ مَكَانَكُمْ أَنتُمْ وَشُرَكَآؤُكُمْ فَزَيَّلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ
(And the Day whereon We shall gather them all together, then We shall say to those who did set partners in worship with Us: "Stop at your place! You and your partners." Then We shall separate them) (10:28).
وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَفَرَّقُونَ
(And on the Day when the Hour will be established -- that Day shall they be separated.) (30:14)
يَوْمَئِذٍ يَصَّدَّعُونَ
(On that Day they shall be divided) (30:43) which means, they will be divided into two separate groups.
احْشُرُواْ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ وَأَزْوَجَهُمْ وَمَا كَانُواْ يَعْبُدُونَ - مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ فَاهْدُوهُمْ إِلَى صِرَطِ الْجَحِيمِ
((It will be said to the angels): "Assemble those who did wrong, together with their companions and what they used to worship, instead of Allah, and lead them on to the way of flaming Fire (Hell).") (37:22-23).
أَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ يبَنِى ءَادَمَ أَن لاَّ تَعْبُدُواْ الشَّيطَـنَ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ
(Did I not command you, O Children of Adam, that you should not worship Shaytan Verily, he is a plain enemy to you.) This is a rebuke from Allah to the disbelievers among the sons of Adam, those who obey the Shaytan even though he was a plain enemy to them, and they disobeyed Ar-Rahman Who created them and granted them provision. Allah says:
وَأَنِ اعْبُدُونِى هَـذَا صِرَطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ
(And that you should worship Me. That is the straight path.) meaning, `I commanded you in the world to disobey the Shaytan, and I commanded you to worship Me, and this is the straight path, but you followed a different path and you followed the commands of the Shaytan.' Allah says:
وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنْكُمْ جِبِلاًّ كَثِيراً
(And indeed he did lead astray a great multitude of you.) meaning, a large number of people. This was the view of Mujahid, Qatadah, As-Suddi and Sufyan bin `Uyaynah.
أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُواْ تَعْقِلُونَ
(Did you not then understand) means, `did you not have any understanding, when you went against the command of your Lord to worship Him alone, with no partner or associate, and you preferred to follow the Shaytan'