TatbaAAuha arradifa (surah Naziat: 7)

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

(79:7) and will be followed by another quaking. *2

Tatba`u har raadifa

*2) The first jolt implies the jolt which will destroy the earth and everything on it, and the second jolt at which all dead men will rise up from death and from their graves. This same state has been described in Surah Az-Zumar, thus: "And when the Trumpet shall be blown on that Day, all those who are in the heavens and the earth shall fall down dead except those whom Allah may allow (to live). Then the Trumpet shall be blown again and they will all stand up, looking around." (v. 68)