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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Hajj 22:2

Word by word

يَوْمَ تَرَوْنَهَا تَذْهَلُ كُلُّ مُرْضِعَةٍ عَمَّآ أَرْضَعَتْ وَتَضَعُ كُلُّ ذَاتِ حَمْلٍ حَمْلَهَا وَتَرَى ٱلنَّاسَ سُكَـٰرَىٰ وَمَا هُم بِسُكَـٰرَىٰ وَلَـٰكِنَّ عَذَابَ ٱللَّهِ شَدِيدٌ

On the Day you see it every nursing mother will be distracted from that [child] she was nursing, and every pregnant woman will abort her pregnancy, and you will see the people [appearing] intoxicated while they are not intoxicated; but the punishment of Allāh is severe.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

يوم ترون قيام الساعة تنسى الوالدةُ رضيعَها الذي ألقمته ثديها؛ لِمَا نزل بها من الكرب، وتُسْقط الحامل حملها من الرعب، وتغيب عقول الناس، فهم كالسكارى من شدة الهول والفزع، وليسوا بسكارى من الخمر، ولكن شدة العذاب أفقدتهم عقولهم وإدراكهم.

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