SURAH 75 — Al-Qiyāmah — القيامة — “The Resurrection”

• Revelation Order: 31
• Event Anchor: Early–mid Meccan confrontation over resurrection (c. 613–617 CE)

Explanation:
Al-Qiyāmah answers one of the central theological disputes in Mecca: denial of bodily resurrection. The surah rebukes claims that God cannot reassemble human remains and exposes the psychological resistance behind that denial. It also reassures the Prophet regarding the reception and recitation of revelation, suggesting a period when his public proclamation was intensifying. The combination of eschatological argument and spiritual guidance fits the early–mid Meccan phase, when disbelief in the afterlife was a major barrier to the acceptance of Islam.

Verse	Verse #	Meccan v Medinan	General Index
I swear by the Day of Resurrection	1	Meccan	5552
And I swear by the reproaching soul [to the certainty of resurrection].	2	Meccan	5553
Does man think that We will not assemble his bones?	3	Meccan	5554
Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips.	4	Meccan	5555
But man desires to continue in sin.	5	Meccan	5556
He asks, “When is the Day of Resurrection?”	6	Meccan	5557
So when vision is dazzled	7	Meccan	5558
And the moon darkens	8	Meccan	5559
And the sun and the moon are joined,	9	Meccan	5560
Man will say on that Day, “Where is the [place of] escape?”	10	Meccan	5561
No! There is no refuge.	11	Meccan	5562
To your Lord, that Day, is the [place of] permanence.	12	Meccan	5563
Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead and kept back.	13	Meccan	5564
Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness,	14	Meccan	5565
Even if he presents his excuses.	15	Meccan	5566
Move not your tongue with it, [O Muhammad], to hasten with recitation of the Qur’an.	16	Meccan	5567
Indeed, upon Us is its collection [in your heart] and [to make possible] its recitation.	17	Meccan	5568
So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its recitation.	18	Meccan	5569
Then upon Us is its clarification [to you].	19	Meccan	5570
No! But you love the immediate	20	Meccan	5571
And leave the Hereafter.	21	Meccan	5572
[Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant,	22	Meccan	5573
Looking at their Lord.	23	Meccan	5574
And [some] faces, that Day, will be contorted,	24	Meccan	5575
Expecting that there will be done to them [something] backbreaking.	25	Meccan	5576
No! When the soul has reached the collar bones	26	Meccan	5577
And it is said, “Who will cure [him]?”	27	Meccan	5578
And the dying one is certain that it is the [time of] separation	28	Meccan	5579
And the leg is wound about the leg,	29	Meccan	5580
To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession.	30	Meccan	5581
And the disbeliever had not believed, nor had he prayed.	31	Meccan	5582
But [instead], he denied and turned away.	32	Meccan	5583
And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride].	33	Meccan	5584
Woe to you, and woe!	34	Meccan	5585
Then woe to you, and woe!	35	Meccan	5586
Does man think that he will be left neglected?	36	Meccan	5587
Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted?	37	Meccan	5588
Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allah] created [his form] and proportioned [him]	38	Meccan	5589
And made of him two mates, the male and the female.	39	Meccan	5590
Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead?	40	Meccan	5591