Tafseer of The Inevitable · Al-Waaqia · 56:4
When the earth is shaken with convulsion
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And His word wanneer de aarde hevig wordt geschud (56:4) — the Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says: when the earth is made to quake and is violently shaken. This is derived from their expression "the arrow trembles in the target," in the sense of: it shakes and trembles.
And in the manner of what we have said about it, the people of interpretation have spoken.
* Mention of those who said that:
ʿAlī related to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His word wanneer de aarde hevig wordt geschud, he says: it is made to quake.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us — both of them — on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the word of Allah wanneer de aarde hevig wordt geschud, he said: it is made to quake.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His word wanneer de aarde hevig wordt geschud, he says: it is made to quake with a quaking.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, wanneer de aarde hevig wordt geschud, he said: it is made to quake with a shaking.
