Al-Ahzaab • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ يَسْـَٔلُكَ ٱلنَّاسُ عَنِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ ۖ قُلْ إِنَّمَا عِلْمُهَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّ ٱلسَّاعَةَ تَكُونُ قَرِيبًا ﴾
“PEOPLE will ask thee about the Last Hour. Say: “Knowledge thereof rests with God alone; yet for all thou knowest, the Last Hour may well be near!””
(Men) the people of Mecca (ask you) O Muhammad (of the Hour) about the coming of the Last Hour. (Say) O Muhammad: (The knowledge of it) the knowledge of its coming (is with Allah only. What can convey (the knowledge) unto thee? It may be that the Hour is nigh) very near.