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Some faces That Day will be bright, Laughing, rejoicing . And some faces That Day will be dust-stained, Blackness will cover them: Those are they who are disbelievers, the wicked. Commentary: The Resurrection Cry! After describing a notable number of divine gifts and worldly blessings, the theme changes to talk about the resurrection and some of its happenings as well as the end of the believers and unbelievers.

The purpose in this is to say that, firstly, these gifts, whatever they are, will have an end sometime; and secondly, they are some signs to prove the existence of Allah's authority which is over everything and, of course, over the Resurrection. And when the deafening cry comes, The term /sakhah/ is based on /sakh/ which originally means 'a very loud noise', so loud that it almost deafens the ears, or actually deafens them.

It points, here, to the second sound of the blast of the trumpet, the very great cry which brings the dead to life again and makes them go forth to the gathering place for the final Judgment. Verily, the cry is so loud and shocking that everyone forgets all but one's end resulting from one's own actions. The Day on which a man shall flee from his brother. The same brother who was loved sincerely, was helped in everything favorably, now he flees from that brother, abruptly.

And his mother and his father, And from his wife and his children. Thus, individuals not only leave the nearest and the dearest members of their family such as their brother, father, mother, wife, and children, but also flee from them. This statement shows that the horror and the fear of the Day is so much so that it makes individuals cease all their wishes and affections.