Transliteration:( Wal malaku 'alaaa arjaaa'ihaa; wa yahmilu 'Arsha Rabbika fawqahum yawma'izin samaaniyah )
18. This means the heavenly angels on the tearing of the sky will stand on the side. Thereafter, the order of Allah Almighty, they will descend on the earth and enclose it.
19 This means eight angels or eight rows of angels. Prior to this, bearers of the Throne were four, but on the Day of Judgement they will change to eight. Only Allah Almighty knows the wisdom behind this. In the world four qualities of Allah Almighty have become apparent, but on the Day of Judgement, in addition to these four qualities, another four qualities will become apparent, which will include excellence, grandeur and justice (Tafseer Azizi).
The tafsir of Surah Al-Haqqah verse 17 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Haqqah ayat 13 which provides the complete commentary from verse 13 through 18.
11. This is an ambiguous verse the meaning of which is difficult to determine. We can neither know what the Throne is nor can understand what will be the nature of the eight angels upholding it on the Day of Resurrection. It is, however inconceivable that Allah Almighty would be sitting on the Throne and the eight angels would be upholding it along with Him. The verse also does not say that Allah at that time would be sitting on the Throne. Besides, the conception of God that the Quran gives also prevents one from imagining that the Being Who is free from physical existence as to body, direction and place, should be residing somewhere and His creatures should sustain Him. Therefore, pursuing any research to determine its meaning would be tantamount to disbelief. However, one should understand that in order to give an idea of Allah Almighty’s rule and sovereignty, and of the matters associated with it, the same scene has been depicted by the Quran as of worldly kingship and the same terms have been used for it as are common for kingship and its accompaniments in order to enable us to understand matters pertaining to sovereignty of the universe to some extent only by means of this very scene and terms. All this is meant to bring the real Truth within human understanding; it is not, therefore, right to take it literally.
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