Tafseer of The Resurrection · Al-Qiyaama · 75:27
And it is said, "Who will cure [him]?"
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He, exalted is His mention, says: The matter is not as these polytheists (mushrikīn) suppose, namely that they will not be punished for their shirk and their disobedience to their Lord; rather, when the soul of one of them, at his death, reaches the collarbones (al-tarāqī) and rattles in his throat.
And Ibn Zayd said concerning the word of Allah: kallā idhā balaghati al-tarāqiya ("Nay, when it reaches the collarbones"), he said: al-tarāqī is his soul.
