Transliteration:( Wa jeee'a yawma'izim bi jahannnam; Yawma 'iziny yatazakkarul insaanu wa annaa lahuz zikraa )
24. It means Hell would be placed before the people on the Field of Reckoning. Or, it would be removed from its place and brought near the Field of Reckoning on the right hand side of the Divine Throne. Seeing everyone would be calling out each one for himself, besides our Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم who would be calling out my followers, my followers!Â
It is reported in one Hadith that there will be seventy thousand sounds emanating from Hell. At every call there would be seventy thousand angels who would be dragging the culprits
there. This tells us that Paradise will remain at its place. Or, that Hell would be remaining at its stipulated place but the people of Reckoning would be seeing it nearer from the field.
25. It means the infidel on that day will be reflecting on his previous deeds and expressing regrets. He would be offering repentance. They would be acknowledging the counselling of their Prophets offered to them when they were in the world i.e. they had spoken the truth and if they are given another opportunity they would start doing good deeds.Â
But, at that time heither will their repentance prove beneficial nor acknowledging the counselling would be of any help to them, because the time for that had passed. The field cultivated out of time will not bear any harvest. That place is not for doing deeds but for receiving the rewards or punishment of the deeds.
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The tafsir of Surah Fajr verse 23 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fajr ayat 21 which provides the complete commentary from verse 21 through 30.
(89:23) and when Hell is brought near that Day. On that Day will man understand, but of what avail will that understanding be?[17]
17. The words in the original can have two meanings:
(1) That on that Day man will remember whatever he had done in the world and will regret, but what will remembrance and regretting avail him then.
(2) That on that Day man will take heed and accept admonition: he will realize that whatever he had been told by the Prophets was true and he committed a folly when he did not listen to them; but what will taking heed and accepting the admonition and realizing one’s errors avail then.
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