Transliteration:( Al-Yawma nakhtimu 'alaaa afwaahihim wa tukallimunaaa aideehim wa tashhadu arjuluhum bimaa kaanoo yaksiboon )
"This day We shall set a seal [96] on their mouths and their hearts will talk to Us and their feet will bear witness [97] of their doings."
This will occur for those who deny their sins on the Day of Judgment. It illustrates that Allah Almighty will not reward or punish based solely on His Divine Knowledge, but rather through the testimony of witnesses, leaving no room for denial.
While the angels are recording every deed, and the books of records, the heavens, and the earth will also testify against the disbelievers, this testimony will become even more direct when they attempt to deny their sins.
At that moment, their very own limbs—hands, feet, and hearts—will be made to speak the truth.
This indicates that even the tongues of the disbelievers will attempt to lie, so Allah will seal their mouths, making their limbs testify instead. The tongue, being a major instrument of falsehood, will be silenced.
However, this seal will not be permanent—once the limbs have testified, it will be removed, and they will scream loudly in Hell, overwhelmed by their fate and the exposure of their lies.
The tafsir of Surah Yaseen verse 65 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Yaseen ayat 63 which provides the complete commentary from verse 63 through 67.
(36:65) Today We shall put a seal on their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us and their feet shall bear witness to what they had been doing.[55]
55. This command will be given in respect of the stubborn culprits, who will refuse to confess their crimes, will belie the witnesses, and will also not acknowledge the genuineness of their conduct-book. Then will Allah Almighty command: Well, stop your babbling. Just see what your own limbs say about your misdeeds. In this connection, here only the evidence to be given by the hands and the feet has been mentioned. But at other places it has been said that their eyes and their ears and their tongues, and the very skins of their body, will tell how they had been employed in the world. They should not forget the Day when their own tongues and their own hands and feet will bear testimony to their misdeeds. (Surah An-Noor, Ayat 24) Then, when all will have reached there, their ears and their eyes and their very skins will bear witness against them concerning what they had been doing in the world. (Surah HaMim As-Sajdah, Ayat 20). The question arises: On the one hand, Allah says: We shall seal their mouths, and on the other hand, in the verse of Surah An-Noor, He says: Their tongues will bear testimony against them. How can these two things be reconciled? The answer is: To seal the mouths means to deprive them of their power of speech. That is, after this they will not be able to say whatever they like with their tongue. The testimony of their tongues means that their tongues themselves will tell how the wicked people had used them, what blasphemies and lies they had been made to utter, what mischief they had invented and what falsehoods they had been made to say on different occasions.
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