سورة عبس

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): لِکُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ یُغْنِیهِ [For every one of them on that day is an affair that will preoccupy him] means that a matter preoccupies him from another matter.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): O son of Mas'ud! Leave what is of no benefit to you and cling to what benefits you, for Allah the Exalted says: لِکُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ یُغْنِیه [For every one of them on that day is an affair that will preoccupy him].

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Abdullah ibn Salam said: "How will people be raised from their graves on the Day of Resurrection?" He said: "O son of Salam! They will be raised from the graves barefoot, naked, hungry, with darkened eyes and terrified; the men will look at the sky and the women at the men." He said: "O son of Salam! Far from it — on that day everyone will be occupied with himself due to the severity of the terror of the Resurrection." He said: "You have spoken the truth, O Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family)."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): On the Day of Resurrection, people will be gathered barefoot and naked, their sweat bridling them and reaching to their earlobes. Sawdah, the wife of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family), said: "Woe to us! Some will look at others." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "People will be too preoccupied to look; لِکُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ یُغْنِیهِ [Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him] — each person on that day is caught up in a calamity that occupies his heart. How would he have the ability to look, when some are dragged on their faces, some walk on their bellies, some are crushed like ants under feet, some are hanged on the edge of the Fire until the reckoning of people is finished, some have a snake coiled around their necks biting them until the reckoning is finished, some are afflicted with hoofed animals that trample them, and some are afflicted with horned animals that gore them with their horns and trample them with their feet."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): When Aisha heard that (people being gathered naked), she said to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): "Woe from the shame of such a gathering — will men and women look at each other's private parts?" The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: "On that day each of them will have a situation that will completely occupy him and hold him back from paying attention to others."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Narrated from al-Hasan: One day the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) had placed his head in Aisha's lap and fallen into a light sleep, when suddenly tears began to flow from Aisha's eyes. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: "What [bad thing] has befallen you? What has made you weep?" She said: "I remembered the gathering of people [on the Day of Resurrection] — will anyone remember anyone else?" He said to her: "They will be gathered barefoot and naked," and he recited [this verse]: لِکُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ یُغْنِیهِ [Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him].

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): Some of the relatives of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) asked him: "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family)! On the Day of Resurrection, will a person remember his close ones?" He said: "There are three places in which no one remembers another: when a person stands before the Scale of Deeds, where his entire attention is on whether his scale is heavy or not; when crossing the Sirat, whether he will pass over it or not; and when the books of deeds are handed over, whether his book of deeds will be in his right hand or in his left. In these three places, a person does not remember his spouse, his relatives, his close friends, his children, or his father and mother, and this is the very saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: لِکُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ یُغْنِیهِ [Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him], for because of all those great and terrifying dangers that exist there, a person's whole attention turns to himself and he has no attention for another. We ask Allah that, through His compassion, mercy and kindness, He make those moments easy and calm for us."

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): I weep over my coming out of my grave naked and abased, carrying my heavy burden upon my back; I look once to my right and again to my left, when the creatures are in a state other than my state; لِکُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ یَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ یُغْنِیهِ * وُجُوهٌ یَوْمَئِذٍ مُسْفِرَةٌ * ضاحِکَةٌ مُسْتَبْشِرَةٌ * وَ وُجُوهٌ یَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَیْها غَبَرَةٌ * تَرْهَقُها قَتَرَةٌ [Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him. (Many) faces on that day shall be bright, laughing, joyous; and (many) faces on that day shall have dust upon them, darkness shall cover them]; and abasement [has covered them].