Transliteration:( Hattaaa izaa maa jaaa'oohaa shahida 'alaihim samu'uhum wa absaaruhum wa julooduhum bimaa kaanoo ya'maloon )
53 That is every limb of theirs would say that he used me to commit such and such a sin The first to speak will be the right hand (Tafseer Roohul Mu'ani).
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Please refer to Surah Fussilat ayat 19 which provides the complete commentary from verse 19 through 24.
(41:20) and when all have arrived, their ears, their eyes, and their skins shall bear witness against them, stating all that they had done in the life of the world.[25]
25. The explanation of this given in the Hadith is that when a stubborn culprit will go on denying his crimes, and will even belie all the witnesses, then the limbs of his body will bear the witness, one after the other, by the command of Allah, and will tell what offenses he had committed through them. This thing has been reported by Anas, Abu Musa Ashari, Abu Said Khudri and Ibn Abbas from the Prophet (peace be upon him), and traditionists like Muslim, Nasai, Ibn Jarir, Ibn Abi Hatim, Bazzar and others have related these in their books. For further explanation, see (Surah YaSeen, ayat 65) note 55.
This verse is one of those many verses which prove that the Hereafter will not only be a spiritual world but human beings will be resurrected with the body and soul as they are now in this world. Not only this: they will be given the same body in which they live now. The same particles and atoms which composed their bodies in the world will be collected on the Day of Resurrection, and they will be resurrected with the same previous bodies in which they had lived and worked in the world. Evidently, the limbs of man can bear the witness in the Hereafter only in case they are the same limbs with which he committed a crime in his previous life. This subject is borne out decisively and absolutely by the following verses of the Quran: (Surah Bani-Israil, Ayat 49-51), (Surah Bani-Israil, Ayat 98); (Surah Al-Muminun, Ayat 35-38), (Surah Al-Muminun, Ayat 82-83); (Surah An-Noor, Ayat 24); (Surah As-Sajdah, Ayat 10); (Surah YaSeen, Ayat 65), (Surah YaSeen, Ayat 78-79); (Surah As-Saffat, Ayat 16-18); (Surah Al-Waqiah, Ayat 47-50); (Surah An-Naziat, Ayat 10-14).
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