Fathalika yawma-ithin yawmun AAaseer (surah Muddathir: 9)

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

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

Fazaalika yawma `iziny yawmun `aseer

*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).