What is this blowing of the trumpet or the call of life?

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The breath of death and the breath of lifeThe affect of sound waves on humans and other things

The blowing and the trumpet as has been explained by many linguists is the drum or the horn (the horns of an animal is hollowed to become a trumpet and it is blown from one end while from the other emanates the sound.

Is this des c r i p tion about the end of the world and the beginning of a new world that will be made under God’s command and it is like the way that normally people herd their caravans or the armies by blowing the bugle for it to stop or advance for everyone to know?

 (There is a different tone of the bugle that is sounded to control the caravans.)

Even today in some armies the practice of sounding the reverie is till prevalent at dusk and it is the duty of the army men to begin their rest on hearing it. In the morning the wake up sound is blown and all of them rise for the day. (1)

Or is it that this verse has no symbolic meaning but the bugle is sounded literally but it is certain that on Day it will be no ordinary trumpet but a great lightning and shriek that will echo around the world and destroy every living thing in a moment or it may rekindle movement breathing life into them. This interpretation seems more apt and compatible to the verse.

There is a Hadith of Imam Ali Ibn Hussein that says:

“The “Soor” is a great horn which has one end and two outlets. The outlet at the bottom points to the earth and the upper one towards the heavens. It covers the seven layers of earth and the seven layers of heavens. It has as many holes as there are creatures and its mouths are larger than the earth and the heavens.” (2)

A hadith from the Messenger of God says:

“The “Soor” is the horn of divine light and has as many holes as the humans alive or dead. (3)

The Hadiths clarify that this des c r i p tion points to something very important but some commentators say that they have taken “Soor” to mean “ Soorat” and say that it means the sound will be blown on faces of human beings and their bodies and they will be alive.

This interpretation can only be compatible to the second shriek and not the first. Some linguists have soundly rejected this idea.

Lisan-ol Arab and other linguists have said that this is a great mistake and an innovation in the word of God because the plural “Soor” in the other verses of the Qura’n is “Suwar” and not “Soor”.

 And if some one takes “Nufikha fis soor” to be “Nufikha fis suwar” then he has attributed a lie to God and made innovation in the words of the Book.

Moreover this explanation is neither compatible with the previous traditions nor with the verses in which the des c r i p tions like, “Saiqa”, Zajrah, and “Naqur” have been used.

It will not be wrong to say that these commentators did not understand the “Soor’ as the blowing of the trumpet or horns so they were forced to give this explanation when the “soor” will be no ordinary trumpet and the blowing will not be the same as we blow into things.

The second interpretation amongst the three seems more apt for it gives us a general idea about it though we are incapable of explaining it fully.

 


1. Tafsir Ruhul Jinan vol.9 page 421
2. La’li-ol-Akhbar vol. 5 page 53
3. Ilm-ol-Yaqeen page 892.

 

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