Surah 45:28
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وَلِلَّهِ مُلۡكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ وَيَوۡمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يَوۡمَئِذٖ يَخۡسَرُ ٱلۡمُبۡطِلُونَ
To God (belongs) the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. On the Day when the Hour strikes, on that Day the perpetrators of falsehood will lose.
وَتَرَىٰ كُلَّ أُمَّةٖ جَاثِيَةٗۚ كُلُّ أُمَّةٖ تُدۡعَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ كِتَٰبِهَا ٱلۡيَوۡمَ تُجۡزَوۡنَ مَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ
You will see each community kneeling, each community called to its Book: ‘Today you will be repaid for what you have done.
هَٰذَا كِتَٰبُنَا يَنطِقُ عَلَيۡكُم بِٱلۡحَقِّۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسۡتَنسِخُ مَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ
This is Our Book – it speaks about you in truth. Surely We have been copying down what you were doing.’
{the followers of falsehood shall lose .} those who disbelieve in Allah and reject the clear proofs and unequivocal evidences that He has sent down to His Messengers. Allah said,
kneeling, fearful of the tremendous calamity and events. It was said that this will occur when Hellfire will be brought forth, for she will exhale once, and everyone will fall to their knees, including Ibrahim, the Khalil. He will proclaim, "Myself, myself, myself! Today, I will not ask You (O Allah) but about myself." And even 'Isa, will proclaim, "Today, I will only argue before You on my own behalf, I will not ask You about Maryam, who gave birth to me." Allah said next,
{each nation will be called to its Record .} meaning, Record of deeds. Allah said in a similar Ayah,
{And the Book will be presented; and the Prophets and the witnesses will be brought forward} (39:69). This is why Allah said here,
"you will be judged according to your deeds, good and evil.' Allah said in similar Ayat,
{On that Day man will be informed of what he sent forward, and what he left behind. Nay! Man will be a witness against himself, though he may put forth his excuses.} (75:13-15)
Allah said,
It contains the record of all your actions, without addition or deletion. Allah also said:
{And the Book will be presented, and you will see the criminals, fearful of that which is therein. They will say:"Woe to us! What sort of Book is this that leaves neither a small thing nor a big thing, but has recorded it with numbers!" And they will find all that they did, placed before them, and your Lord treats no one with injustice} (18:49) Allah's statement,
means, 'We ordered Our scribe angels to record your deeds.' Ibn 'Abbas and others commented, "The angels record the deeds of the servants and then ascend to heaven with them. There, they meet the angels entrusted with the Records of deeds sent down from Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz on each Night of Al-Qadr, containing what Allah has written will occur from the servants, long before He created them. They will compare their records and find out that not a single letter was added or deleted." He then recited this Ayah,
— from Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Vol. 9, Page 35-36)