WOULD THAT, I COULD DIE!
VERSE NO. 25-29
Now the immediate reference is to the opposite party, who were unbelieving sinners. In that Day of hope and fear, their records will be given to their left hand. What can they say except:-
``Would that my record was not given to me, and I knew not what my account was. I wish I could be dead as dust and bones!''
They then confess that their wealth was only a bunden, and could not help them at all. All their power and authority have vanished or perished.
HARUN-AL-RASHID, the tyrant Kalif, has rehearsed in his death bed:-
``The phisician and his medicine, can now do nothing for me;If not so, why does he himself dies with the same disease, which he could formerly cure?''
The theme of the above passage is the condition of the faithless sinners. Contrary to the righteous ones, the unjust's records of deeds are given to their left hand. Now will they remember their past and tremble with fear and agony?! Their real punishment begins with rememberance of what they have done before. They then wish to be dead not to encounter with such accounting and just judgement. But wishing for death too will not do now, because they have already understood that death has no meaning in the sense of being reduced to nothingness. Death is nothing more than a bridge to go to another bank; or a transition into a new world.