سورة المعارج

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): The meaning of یَوْمَ یَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ [The day on which they shall come forth from their graves] is the graves, and كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَى نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ [as if they were hastening on to a goal] means that they are summoned toward the caller.

Imam al-Sajjad (peace be upon him): Then Allah commands that [creation] be brought to life. Jibrail, Mikail, Israfil and the bearers of the Throne come to life by Allah's command. And Allah commands Israfil to take up the trumpet. Then He commands the spirits of the creatures to enter into the trumpet, [then] Allah commands Israfil to blow into the trumpet for the [restoring of] life; the interval between the two blasts of the trumpet is forty years. Then the spirits of the people come out from the holes like scattered locusts, and what is between the earth and the sky is filled. The spirits enter the bodies in the earth, while the bodies are lying asleep in the graves. Every spirit enters its own body, and the spirit enters through their nostrils, and by the command of Allah the Exalted they come to life and come out of the graveyard, as Allah the Exalted says: یَوْمَ یَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعاً کَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَی نُصُبٍ یُوفِضُونَ [The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal].

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): [O Allah]! I ask You by that name of Yours by which You gather all Your creation while they come out from the graves in haste.

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): [Regarding the interpretation of the verse] it has been said: it is as though they are hastening toward their idols to seek nearness to them.