Surah Muddathir ayat 9 Tafsir Quran 74:9

﴿فَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ﴾
[ المدثر: 9]

74:9 That Day will be a difficult day

that day that is to say the time of the sounding yawma’idhin is a substitution for the preceding subject and is not declined because it is annexed to something that cannot be declined; the predicate of the subject is the following will be a harsh day idhā is operated by what is indicated by the statement ishtadda’l-amru ‘for when the trumpet is sounded the situation will be terrible’

Then it is a momentous Day of heavy consequence, a Day of constraint and constriction

(74:9) that will surely be a hard day, *8

That Day will be a difficult day meaning

*8) As already explained in the introduction, this part of the Surah wa:.
sent down a few months after the initial verses when at the beginning of the first ever Hajj season, after the advent of Islam, the Quraish chiefs decided in a conference to start a powerful propaganda campaign to dissuade the outsiders, who came to visit the Ka`bah, from the Qur'an and the Holy Prophet Muhammad ( upon whom be Allah's peace and blessings ).
In these verses, this very scheming of the Quraish has been reviewed, and the review has begun with the words, as if to ay: " You thay act as you please, but even if you succeed in achieving your object by these devices in the world, how will you save yourselves from your evil end un the Day when the Trumpet will be sounded and Resurrection established? " ( For explanation of the Trumpet, see E.N.
47 of Al-An`am, E.N.
57 of Ibrahim, E.N.
78 of Ta Ha, E.N.
1 of Al-Hajj, E.N.'s 46, 47 of Ya Sin, E.N.
79 of Az-Zumar, E.N.
52 of Qaf ).

 

( Surely that day ) i.e. the Day of Judgement ( will be a day of anguish ) will be a severe day,

Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day.

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