Transliteration:( Inna yawmal fasli meeqaatuhum ajma'een )
41. The word means decision, distance, Since a practical decision will be made between Truth and falsehood on the Day of Judgement (because on that day the believers would he separated from the infidels).
For this reason it is called the Day of Decision
42.This means the day for the fulfillment of all the promises and warnings is the Day Judgement when the believers would rewarded according to what was promised them. while the infidels would he punished according to the warnings given to them. Th world is not the place for the purpose of revenge and punishment
The tafsir of Surah Ad-Dukhan verse 40 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Dukhan ayat 38 which provides the complete commentary from verse 38 through 42.
35. This is the answer to their demand: Bring back our forefathers if you are truthful. It means: Life-after-death is not a trivial matter, it cannot be that whenever somebody denies it, a dead person may he raised immediately from the graveyard and presented before him. For it a time has been fixed by the Lord of the worlds, when He will resurrect to life all the former and the latter generations, gather them together in His court and will decide their cases. You may believe in it or may not, but this will in any case happen on its own pre-ordained time. If you believe in it, it will be to your own advantage, for, being forewarned, you will make preparations to fare well in that court. If you do not believe in it, you will incur loss for yourselves, for you will spend your whole life in the misunderstanding that good and evil are confined only to this worldly life; after death there is going to be no court where our good or bad deeds might have to be judged for any permanent results.
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