the Hour, since it is coming and must inevitably arrive, was likened in its proximity to the blinking of an eye. Al-Zajjaj said: It does not mean that the Hour will come in the blinking of an eye; rather, it describes the swiftness of the power to bring it about, meaning: He says to a thing 'Be,' and it is. It was also said: It is only compared to the eye because it can perceive the sky despite its distance from the earth.

: 12609: The ties of kinship (al-rahim): 3: Al-Manthur: (5/151).

: 12610: His blessings (ni'amihi): 4: The previous source.

: 12611: The sky: 5: The previous source.

: 12612: With correctness (bi-al-sawab): 6: Al-Manthur: (5/152-153).

: 12613: A dwelling (sakanan): 7: His statement "a dwelling," meaning: you dwell therein, and your limbs find rest from movement; though you may move within it and rest in another, the statement implies the general rule. This is counted among the blessings, for if He had so willed, He would have created the servant in a state of perpetual restlessness like the celestial spheres, and it would have been as He created and willed; and had He created him stationary like the earth, it would have been as He created and willed. But He brought him into existence as a creation that acts in both ways, whose state fluctuates between the two conditions, and He oscillates it however and whichever way [He wills].

2295: 12614: Death: 1: Al-Manthur: (5/153).

: 12615: Your day of departure (yawm za'nikum): 2: The Almighty's saying, "the day of your departure (za'nikum)." Al-za'n is the movement of the desert dwellers for migration—to seek pasture and places of rainfall—and the shifting from one place to another. From this is the saying of Antara:

Those whose departure I anticipate have set out, and the spotted crow has passed between them.