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On the day when (yawma substitutes for the previous yawma, with the intervening [statement] being a parenthetical) the earth is split asunder (read tashaqqaqu, or tashshaqqaqu, where the original second tā' [of tatashaqqaqu] has been assimilated with it [the shīn]) from them, [they will come] hastening forth (sirā'an: [sirā'] the plural of sarī', a circumstantial qualifier referring to an implied clause, that is to say [together they would read] fa-yakhrujūna musri'īna, 'they come forth hastening'). That is an easy gathering for Us (dhālika hashrun 'alaynā yasīr: there is here a separation of the noun from its adjective by what is semantically connected to it, for the purpose of specification - which is [rhetorically] unobjectionable; dhālika, 'that', is meant to point out the signification of the 'gathering', which itself is [also] predicated by this [demonstrative particle], and this signification is the bringing back to life after extinction and the assembly for the exposition and the reckoning [before Allahu ta’ālā].