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Qāf 50:42

The Qurʾān · Sūra 50: Qāf · verse 42

This commentary was written by Claude (Anthropic); it carries no religious authority and should be checked against the classical sources.

50/42

يَوْمَ يَسْمَعُونَ ٱلصَّيْحَةَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُرُوجِ

Yawma yasmaʿūna'ṣ-ṣayḥata bi'l-ḥaqq; dhālika yawmu'l-khurūj

"On that day they will hear the cry with the truth. That is the day of coming forth."

ٱلصَّيْحَة — root ص-ي-ح

Its concrete sense: to shout aloud, to cry out. Ṣayḥa — a single cry (the faʿla pattern conveys a single occurrence); ṣiyāḥ — shouting; ṣāḥa'd-dīk — the cock crowed.

The Qurʾān uses this word in scenes of destruction: of Thamūd, Madyan and other peoples it is said "the cry seized them" (as at Hūd 11/67 and 94).

The usual use of the word in the Qurʾān, that is, is a word of destruction.

And here the same word is used for the call of the resurrection.

I record this as an observation: the same sound put an end to peoples in history; here it makes a beginning.

بِٱلْحَقِّ — for the third time

The last of the three bi'l-ḥaqqs set out in a table above:

VerseExpression
5kadhdhabū bi'l-ḥaqq
19jāʾat sakratu'l-mawti bi'l-ḥaqq
42yasmaʿūna'ṣ-ṣayḥata bi'l-ḥaqq

What was denied in the fifth verse comes back with death in the nineteenth and with the cry in the forty-second.

And the expression is striking: the cry is heard "with the truth". Hearing, that is, is no longer something open to interpretation. No dispute remains as to what is heard.

ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُرُوجِ — the ring closes

And the most important internal link of the sūra is completed here.

In the eleventh verse, after the coming out of a plant from dead ground had been described, it was said:

kadhālika'l-khurūj — "such is the coming forth."

In the forty-second verse the same word comes, this time as the name of a day:

dhālika yawmu'l-khurūj — "that is the day of coming forth."

The same word, the same definiteness, the same pattern of demonstrative (kadhālika / dhālika).

And thirty-one verses lie between them.

The sūra gave a definition in the eleventh verse and in the forty-second placed that definition as the name of a day.

The structure of the proof is thus completed:

StepVersesWhat
16-10The things to be looked at are listed
211Dead ground revives → kadhālika'l-khurūj
312-38History, death, the reckoning, the Garden and Hell
442yawmu'l-khurūj — the day is given its name

And this completes what the sūra has been building from the start: the addressee finds the name of the thing he called "far" in the name of what happens in his own field.

I present this as my own reading; the places of the two words in the text and their being from the same root are beyond dispute.

One more note: the word khurūj has been chosen instead of "resurrection" (baʿth) or "spreading out" (nashr). And khurūj is more concrete than either: to come out. The sūra names the most abstract event with the most concrete verb.


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