Transliteration:( Latarkabunna tabaqan 'an tabaq )
15.Ps. In it, the address is made either to the Holy Prophet?,i.e. O My Beloved you would always be attaining higher status and there will in no way be a limit to your spiritual progress. And why not? The Holy ?is the highest reflection of Allah Almighty's Personality and Attributes. And this is the very Attribute of Allah Almighty i.e. "Every day He is in new splendor" (S55:V29). Thus, it is the attribute that he of the Holy Prophet ? is passing through changing us each day. Although the reflection is the mirror of the sun and reflects its attributes, it is not the sun. Or, it could be addressed to the Companions that before you have passed these stages and in the future too you would accomplish the stages of death, the grave, resurrection, etc.
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Please refer to Surah Inshiqaq ayat 16 which provides the complete commentary from verse 16 through 25.
(84:19) you shall proceed onwards from stage to stage.[11]
11. That is, you will not remain in one and the same state, but will have to pass through countless stages gradually, from youth to old age, from old age to death, from death to barzakh (the intermediary state between death and Resurrection), from barzakh to Resurrection, from Resurrection to the Plain of Assembly, then to the Reckoning, and then to the meting out of rewards and punishments. An oath has been sworn by three things to confine this:
(1) By the twilight.
(2) By the darkness of night and the gathering together in it of all those human beings and animals who remain scattered in the day time.
(3) By the moon’s passing through different phases to become full. These are some of those things which testify that rest and stillness is unknown in the universe in which man lives. There is a continuous and gradual change taking place everywhere. Therefore, the disbelievers are wrong in thinking that life comes to an end after man has breathed his last.
[1893]- i.e., various stages, both in this life and in the Hereafter.
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