Waltaffati assaqu bilssaq (surah Qiyamah: 29)

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

(75:29) and calf is inter-twined with calf. *20

Waltaffatis saaqu bissaaq

*20) Some commentators have taken the word saq (leg, shank) in its literal meaning, thereby implying that at death one lean leg will join the other lean leg; some others have taken it metaphorically in the sense of difficulty, vehemence and hardship so as to mean: At that tune one affliction will be joined with another affliction, one of being saparated from the world and all its enjoyments, and the other of being seized and taken to the Hereafter as a culprit, and this will be experienced by every disbeliever, hypocrite and sinner.