سورة الدخان

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): إِنَّا كَاشِفُو الْعَذَابِ قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُمْ عَائِدُونَ [Surely We will remove the punishment a little, (but) you will surely return]; that is, [We will lift the punishment] until the Day of Resurrection. And if the verse يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّمَاءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُبِينٍ [The day when the heaven shall bring an evident smoke] were about the Day of Resurrection, [in this verse] He would not have said: "إِنَّكُمْ عَائِدُونَ [you will surely return]," because after the Hereafter and the Resurrection there is no state to which they could return.

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): At that time Abu Sufyan and the leaders of Quraysh said: "O Muhammad! Do you not command us to maintain the ties of kinship? Then come to the aid of your people, for they are perishing." So the Prophet supplicated for them, and this is the statement of the Exalted Truth: "رَبَّنَا اكْشِفْ عَنَّا الْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ [Our Lord! Remove from us the punishment; surely we are believers]," and Allah the Exalted said: إِنَّا كاشِفُوا الْعَذابِ قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُمْ عائِدُونَ [Surely We will remove the punishment a little, (but) you will surely return]. Thus greenery and ease returned to them; so [in gratitude for this great blessing] they must worship the Lord of this House. (Quraysh/3)