Tafseer of The Ascending Stairways · Al-Ma'aarij · 70:44
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.
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His statement: ( their gazes lowered ) He says: their gazes humbled because of the disgrace and humiliation in which they find themselves, ( humiliation covers them ) He says: humiliation overspreads them, ( That is the Day which they were promised ) He, Mighty and Exalted, says: this is the Day of which I have given the description, and that is the Day of Resurrection, which the polytheists of Quraysh were promised in the worldly life, that they would meet it in the Hereafter — they used to deny it.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: ( That is the Day ): the Day of Resurrection ( which they were promised ).
