Transliteration:( Hal yanzuroona illaaa an ta'tiyahumul malaaa'ikatu aw ya'tiya Rabbuka aw ya'tiya ba'du Aayaati Rabbik; yawma ya'tee ba'du Aayaati Rabbika laa yanfa'u nafsan eemaanuhaa lam takun aamanat min qablu aw kasabat feee eemaanihaa khairaa; qulin tazirooo innaa muntaziroon )
374. Here 'angels' refer to the angel of death who appears before the deceased at the time of death. The 'signs' refers to the rising of the sun from the west. At that point in time everybody will declare their faith but their faith at that time will not be accepted.
375. By this is meant the person who had remained an infidel but now brings faith in seeing the sun rising from the west, his faith will not be reliable. Otherwise the faith of all his children who are to be born after this incident should be given credibility and their faith should be worthy of trust. In some traditions, it is reported that after this incident there will be no birth, and women would become barren. In the light of this, no objection can be raised about this verse.
376. This means after seeing this sign the infidel will not benefit by declaring faith or doing good deeds like offering repentance, etc. But those who had been believers prior to this event will benefit from their good deeds. (Tafseer Ruhul Bayaan)
377. This means Oh infidels await our destruction. We are waiting for the punishment to come to you. Time will tell whose expectation was true and whose was false. Thus through the Grace of Allah Almighty the infidels were destroyed and Muslims were victorious.
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158. Do they then wait for anything other than that the angels should come to them, or that your Lord should come, or that some of the Signs of your Lord should come! The day that some of the signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good with his faith. Say: “Wait you! We (too) are waiting.”
Allah sternly threatens the disbelievers, those who defy His Messengers, deny His Ayat and hinder from His path,
(Do they then wait for anything other than that the angels should come to them, or that your Lord (Allah) should come…) on the Day of Resurrection,
(or that some of the signs of your Lord should come! The day that some of the signs of your Lord do come no good will it do to a person to believe then.) Before the commencement of the Day of Resurrection, there will come signs and portents of the Last Hour that will be witnessed by the people living at that time. In a section explaining this Ayah, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,
(The Last Hour will not commence until the sun rises from the west. When the people witness that, they will all believe. This is when.
(no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before.)) Ibn Jarir recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,
(Three, if they appear, then a soul will not benefit from its faith, if it had not believed before or earned good in its faith: when the sun rises from the west, Ad-Dajjal and the Beast of the earth.) Ahmad also recorded this Hadith, and in his narration, the Prophet mentioned the Smoke. Imam Ahmad recorded that `Amr bin Jarir said, “Three Muslim men sat with Marwan in Al-Madinah and they heard him talking about the signs (of the Last Hour). He said that the first sign will be the appearance of Ad-Dajjal. So these men went to `Abdullah bin `Amr and told him what they heard from Marwan about the signs. Ibn `Amr said, Marwan said nothing. I remember that I heard the Messenger of Allah saying,
(The first of the signs to appear are the sun rising from the west and the Beast that appears in the early morning. Whichever comes before the other, then the second sign will appear soon after it.”) Then `Abdullah said – and he used to read the Scriptures – “And I think the first of them is the sun rising from the west. That is because when it sets it comes under the Throne, prostrates and seeks permission to return. So it is permitted to return until Allah wants it to rise from the west. So it does as it normally would, it comes beneath the Throne, it prostrates and seeks permission to return. But it will get no response. Then it will seek permission to return ﴿again﴾, but it will get no response, until what Allah wills of the night to pass goes by, and it realizes that if it is permitted to return it would not ﴿be able to﴾ reach the east. It says; `My Lord! The east is so far, what good would I be to the people’ Until the horizons appear as a ﴿lightless﴾ ring, it seeks permission to return and is told; `Rise from your place,’ so it rises upon the people from where it set.” Then he recited,
(no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before,) This was also recorded by Muslim in his Sahih, and Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah in their Sunans. Allah’s statement,
(no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before,) means, when the disbeliever believes then, it will not be accepted from him. As for those who were believers before, if they earned righteous deeds, they will have earned a great deal of good. If they had not done good nor repented before then, it will not be accepted from them, according to the Hadiths that we mentioned. This is also the meaning of Allah’s statement,
(…nor earned good through his faith. ) meaning, one’s good deeds will not be accepted from him unless he performed good deeds before. Allah said next,
(Say: “Wait you! We (too) are waiting.”) This is a stern threat to the disbelievers and a sure promise for those who delay embracing the faith and repenting until a time when faith or repentance shall not avail. This will occur when the sun rises from the west because the Last Hour will then be imminent and its major signs will have begun to appear. Allah said in other Ayat,
(Do they then await (anything) other than the Hour, that it should come upon them suddenly But some of its portents have already come; and when it is upon them, how can they benefit then by their reminder) ﴿47:18﴾, and,
(So when they saw Our punishment, they said: “We believe in Allah alone and reject (all) that we used to associate with Him as partners.” Then their faith could not avail them when they saw Our punishment.) ﴿40:84-85﴾
(6:158) What! Do they wait either for the angels to appear before them or for your Lord to come unto them or for some clear signs of your Lord1[139] to appear before them? When some clear signs of your Lord will appear, believing will be of no avail to anyone who did not believe before, or who earned no good deeds through his faith.[140] Say: ‘Wait on; we too are waiting.’
139. That is, either tokens of the approach of the Day of Reckoning or God’s scourge or any other sign that will uncover the Truth, after which there will be no reason left for testing man.
140. Those tokens will be so clear that after their appearance it will neither avail the unbeliever to repent of his unbelief nor the disobedient to forsake his disobedience. For faith and obedience have meaning and value only as long as the Truth remains hidden, as long as the tenure of life granted to people does not seem to have approached its end and the world with all its vanities continues to delude man that, as there may neither be God nor After-life, one should eat, drink and enjoy oneself as best one can.
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