99:1. When the earth is shaken with a cataclysmic earthquake

99:2. and the earth brings forth its burdens,^{1This refers to the dead, who will be brought forth from their graves.}

99:3. and man says: What is the matter with it?

99:4. On that day it will tell all its news^{2That is, it will tell of all deeds that were committed on it, both good and evil.}

99:5. because your Lord will command it [to do so].

99:6. On that day all people will proceed in scattered groups to be shown [the results of] their deeds.

99:7. So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it,

99:8. and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it.

Here Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) speaks of what will happen on the Day of Resurrection, when the earth will be shaken and convulse to the extent that all that is on it of structures and mountains will collapse.

So the mountains will crumble and the hills will be flattened, and it will become a smooth, levelled plain, in which you will see no depression or elevation.

﴾and the earth brings forth its burdens﴿ that is, what it contains of the dead and of treasures.

﴾and man says﴿, expressing his shock when he sees what happened to it of immense changes:

﴾What is the matter with it?﴿ that is, what has happened to it?

﴾On that day it is namely the earth ﴾will tell all its news﴿ that is, it will testify concerning people and what they did on its surface of good or evil. The earth will be among the witnesses who will testify concerning people’s deeds.

And that will happen ﴾because your Lord will command it [to do so]﴿ that is, He will instruct it to speak of what was done on it, and it will not disobey His command.

﴾On that day all people will proceed﴿ from the place of standing, when Allah passes judgement among them,

﴾in scattered groups to be shown [the results of] their deeds﴿ that is, so that Allah may show them what they did of good and bad deeds, and will show them the appropriate requital thereof.

﴾So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it﴿. This is general in meaning and includes all good and all evil, because when he sees the atom’s weight, which is the most insignificant of things, and therequital thereof, then anything greater than that will surely be requited, as Allah (is) says elsewhere:

﴾On the day when every soul will find itself faced with all the good it has done, and all the evil it has done, it will wish there were a great distance between it and its evil.. .﴿ (A!'Imran 3: 30)

- and:

..They will find all they did recorded there...﴿ (al-Kahf 18: 49) This verse offers the strongest encouragement to do good, even if it is little, and the greatest deterrent against doing evil, even if it is minor.

This is the end of the commentary on Sooral az-Zalzalah.

All praise and thanks are for Allah, and may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad his family, and his Companions abundantly until the Day of Judgement.