Tafseer of The Overwhelming · Al-Ghaashiya · 88:2
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
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His statement: وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ ("Faces on that Day shall be humbled"). The Exalted, whose remembrance is exalted, says: faces on that Day — and these are the faces of the people who were disbelieving (kufr) in Him — shall be humbled. He says: abased.
* Mention of who said this:
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ ("Faces on that Day shall be humbled") — that is to say: abased.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His statement: خَاشِعَةٌ ("humbled"), he said: humbled in the Fire.
