Surah At-Tariq Ayat 9 (86:9 Quran) With Tafsir

Ala-Maududi

(86:9) On the Day when man’s deepest secrets shall be put to the test^[5]

5. That is, His bringing man into existence and watching over him from the time conception takes place until death, is a clear proof that He can create him once again after death. If He had the power to create him in the first instance and man stays alive in the world by His power alone, what rational arguments can be presented for the conjecture that He does not have the power to do the same thing a second time? To deny this power man will even have to deny that God has brought him into existence, and the one who denies this may well come out one day with the claim that all books in the world have been printed accidentally, all cities of the world have been built accidentally, and there has occurred on the earth an explosion by chance which made all the factories start functioning automatically. The fact is that the creation of man, the structure of his body, the existence of the powers and capabilities working within him, and his survival as a living being all this is a much more complex process than all those works that have come to be accomplished through man, or are still in the process of

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah Tariq verse 9 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Tariq ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 10.