Waakhrajati al-ardu athqalaha (surah Zalzalah: 2)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(99:2) and the earth will throw up all her burdens, *2

Wa akh rajatil ardu athqaalaha

*2) This same has been expressed in Surah Al-Inshiqaq: 4, thus: "And throws out whatever is within it, and becomes empty." It has several meanings:
(1) It will cast out bodies of the dead in whatever form and state and wherever they may be Iying in the earth; and the following sentence indicates that at that time all the scattered parts of the bodies will reassemble and be resurrected once again in the same form and shape as they had been in their first life, for if it were not so, how will they say: "What has happened to the earth ?" It will not only cast out the dead bodies of men but also all traces and evidences of the words, deeds and activities of their former Iife lying buried in it; the following sentence points out that the earth will narrate all that had happened on its back.
(2) A third meaning also has been given by some Commentators, saying that it will cast out the treasures of gold, silver, jewels and every kind of wealth lying hidden in the earth's belly and man will see it and realize how he thirsted for these things in the world: how he committed murders. thefts, robberies and piracies in the land and sea, usurped the rights of others, waged wars and devastated vast populations. On that Day all ' that will lie heaped up before him, yet of no avail, but will rather become a means of punishment for him.