Transliteration:( Fa-yawma'izil laa yus'alu 'an zambiheee insunw wa laa jaann )
34. Because their sins would become visible from the mark on their faces. However, for the purpose of accountability, questions would be asked. Thus, there is no inconsistency in the verses. If anyone, now, says that on that day the Holy Prophet would not be able to distinguish the hypocrites from the believers, then he is rejecting the veracity of this verse. It should be remembered that by day is meant the Day of Judgement, which is between resurrection from the grave and Divine judgement.
The tafsir of Surah Ar-Rahman verse 39 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Rahman ayat 37 which provides the complete commentary from verse 37 through 45.
(55:39) On that Day there will be no need to ask either men or jinn about their sins.[36]
36. This is being explained by the subsequent sentence: The culprits there shall be recognized by their faces. It means that in that great assembly where all the former and the latter generations will have gathered together, there will be no need to ask as to who are the culprits, nor will any man or jinn need be asked whether he is a culprit or not. The dejected faces of the culprits, their terror-stricken eyes, their disturbed and alarmed countenances will themselves be enough to expose the secret that they are the culprits. When a crowd comprising both the guilty and the innocent people, is encircled by the police, the calm and tranquil of the innocent people and the bewildered and disturbed state of the guilty ones tell at one glance as to who in the crowd is the culprit and who is innocent. This general rule is in most cases belied in the world, because the worldly police do not enjoy the reputation of being fair and just, rather on many an occasion they have turned out to be more bothersome for the gentle and innocent people than for the culprits. Therefore, here it is possible that when encircled by the police the gentle and innocent people might become even more terror-stricken than the criminals, but in the Hereafter, when every noble person will have complete faith in the justice of Allah, bewilderment will afflict only those whose conscience will be conscious of their being the culprits themselves, and who on their very arrival in the Court of God will become certain of their doom, which they had regarded as impossible or doubtful in the world and so had been committing every heinous sin and crime.
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