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At-Tammah al-Kubra (Greatest Calamity) الطَّامَّة الْكُبْرَى

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A name of the Day of Judgement in Surah An-Naziʿat 79:34 — "the Greatest Calamity that overwhelms" — emphasising its inescapable, all-encompassing severity.

Overview

aṭ-Ṭāmmah al-Kubrā (Arabic: الطَّامَّة الْكُبْرَى; "the Greatest Calamity") is one of the names of the Day of Judgement. It is named in Surah An-Nāziʿāt 79:34: "But when there comes the Greatest Calamity, the Day when man will remember what he has striven for, and Hellfire will be brought forth for him who sees." The Arabic ṭāmmah conveys overwhelming inescapability — that which engulfs and dominates everything else.

Quranic references

  • Surah An-Nāziʿāt 79:34–41 — the foundational passage; the Day, the recall, the choice between Paradise and Hell.
  • Surah Al-Qāriʿah 101 — entire surah on the "striking" Day with parallel imagery.
  • Surah Al-Ghāshiyah 88:1 — "Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming Event?"
  • Surah An-Naba 78 — extensive companion eschatological surah.

See also

References

  1. The Quran: Surahs An-Nāziʿāt 79:34–41; Al-Qāriʿah 101; Al-Ghāshiyah 88:1; An-Naba 78.
  2. Ibn Kathir, Tafsīr, on Surah An-Nāziʿāt.