Ayat 1–2آیات 1–2
His words, Exalted is He:
The Crashing Blow! What is the Crashing Blow?
He said:
God strikes His enemies a crashing blow through His punishment.
Ayah 3آیت 3
What will show you what the Crashing Blow is?
This is a way of magnifying it due to its severity (shidda). Everything in the Qurʾān which is preceded by the words: What will show you? is something about which He has not yet provided information, just as He said: And what will explain [it] to you? The Hour may well be near [33:63]; He had not informed [the Prophet] of it up until His words: What will show you what the Crashing Blow is? Then He informed [him] about it.
⟦ Qurān ⟧
Ayah 4آیت 4
His words, Exalted is He:
A day [when] people will be like scattered moths.
This means that they will bump into each other because of the awe (hayba) [they experience] before God, Mighty and Majestic is He. It has been said: the blow (qaraʿ) is threefold: the blow which strikes bodies is the arrow of death; the blow which strikes works is God’s questioning them; and the blow which strikes hearts is the fear of alienation.
But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best.
⟦ qara ⟧