﴿ كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَىٰهَا ﴾

“On the Day when they behold it, [it will seem to them] as if they had tarried [in this world] no longer than one evening or [one night, ending with] its morn!”

The day they see it it will be as if they had only tarried in their graves for an evening or the morning thereof that is to say as if only one evening of a day or its morning the annexation of duhā ‘morning’ to ‘ashiyya ‘evening’ is valid on the basis of their contiguity since both constitute either side of the day; the annexation has also allowed for the word to fall in harmony with the end-rhyme of the verses.