Surah An Naba ayat 20 Tafsir Quran 78:20

﴿وَسُيِّرَتِ الْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا﴾
[ النبأ: 20]

78:20 And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.

and the mountains are set in motion dislocated from their positions and become as a mirage as fine dust that is to say like it in terms of its levity when in motion.

and the mountains are set in motion and into a mirage as if transmigrated

(78:20) and the mountains will be set in motion and become a mirage. *13

And the mountains are removed and will meaning

*13) One should bear in mind the fact that here also, as at many other places in the Qur'an, the different states of Resurrection have been mentioned all together.
In the first verse, mention has been made of what will happen at the final sounding of the Trumpet and in the following two verses of the state which will appear at the second sounding of the Trumpet.
This we have already explained in E.N.
10 of Surah Al-Haaqqah above.
" The heavens shall be opened " means: All obstacles in the heavens will be removed and every heavenly calamity from every side will be befalling freely as though all doors for it were open and no door had remained closed to obstruct its happening.
" The mountains will be set in motion till they become as a mirage " means: In no time will the mountains be uprooted from their places and then will be scattered away in particles leaving nothing but vast, empty sand plains behind.
" This same state has been described in Surah Ta Ha, thus: They ask you: well, where will the mountains go on that Day? Say to them: My Lord will reduce them to fine dust and scatter it away.
He will turn the earth into an empty level plain, wherein you will neither see any curve nor crease. " (vv.
105-107 and the corresponding E.
N .
83! .

 

( And the hills are set in motion ) on the face of the earth (and become as a mirage.

And the mountains shall be moved away from their places and they will be as if they were a mirage.

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