Transliteration:( Yawma yad'ookum fatastajeeboona bihamdihee wa tazunnoona il labistum illaa qaleela (section 5) )
"The day when He will call you [113], and you will respond with praise [114], and you will think that you had not stayed except a little [115]."
By this is meant calling you to the place of reckoning by means of sounding the trumpet. From this, we learn that the activities of certain special servants of Allah Almighty are indeed considered His activities—because resurrecting the people, summoning them to the plain of Reckoning, and blowing the Trumpet are all assigned to Hazrat Israfeel (upon him be peace).
Yet, Allah Almighty says He would be summoning the people. Similarly, He refers to many actions of His servants as His own, such as when Hazrat Jibraeel (upon him be peace) told Bibi Mariam:
"I would grant a son to you."
This tells us that all worships will come to an end in the Hereafter, but the act of praising Allah Almighty will continue. However, this offering of praise will not involve any burden or effort, but will be a spiritual act, just like the natural breathing process in this world.
But this praise will not benefit the infidels in the Hereafter.
In comparison to the life in the Hereafter, the life of this world and the period of stay in the grave will appear extremely short.
Or, due to the intense fear of the Day of Judgement, even their long lives will seem like brief moments. Afterward, they will recall their ages and incidents from the worldly life (Tafseer Roohul Bayaan).
The tafsir of Surah Al-Isra verse 52 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Isra ayat 49 which provides the complete commentary from verse 49 through 52.
(17:52) on the Day when He will call you and you will rise praising Him in response to His call, and you will believe that you had lain in this state only for a while.”[56]
56. That is, you will feel as if the intervening period between death and coming again to life on the Day of Resurrection was only a few hours or so, for you will think that you had just woken up after a short sleep by the sudden noise produced on the Day. As regards to you will rise up praising Him, it is a subtle hint towards a great reality. At the time of rising up from death, both the believer and the unbeliever will be uttering the praise of Allah. The believer will do so because in the worldly life also he believed in this creed and practiced it. As regards the unbeliever, he will have the urge to do so because of the inherent and ingrained tendency in him which he had been suppressing by his folly. In the new life all those deliberate suppressions will vanish away and he will involuntarily utter the praise of Allah.
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