Verse 66
Ya Sin • makkah
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ٱلْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَىٰٓ أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَآ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ
17:37; 24:25; 41:21-23.
Commentary:
The verse means to say that when the guilt of disbelievers will be established and proved to the hilt they will become dumbfounded, their mouths will, as it were, become sealed and they will not be able to say anything in their defence and in extenuation of their guilt, and their hands and feet will also bear witness against them—these being the principal instruments of man’s actions, good or bad. Elsewhere the Quran says: "Their ears and their eyes and their skins will bear witness against them" 41:21.
Scientific research has established the fact that every action, even every spoken word, leaves its impression and is preserved in the atmosphere. Instruments are increasingly being invented which reveal and reproduce the nature and form of action or of spoken word. The speech and movements of a person can now be exactly reproduced by the tape-recorder and even on the screen by television, thousands of miles away. This is how the tongue and limbs of man even in this world have begun to bear witness for or against him.
17:37; 24:25; 41:21-23.
When the guilt of disbelievers will be established and proved to the hilt they will be dumbfounded, their mouths will, as it were, become sealed and they will not be able to say anything in their defence and in extenuation of their guilt, and their hands and feet will also bear witness against them—these being the principal instruments of man’s actions, good or bad. The speech and movements of a person can now be exactly reproduced by the tape-recorder and on the screen by television miles away. This is how the tongue and limbs of man even in this world have begun to bear witness for or against him.