Al-Ma'arij Verse 8

On that Day the sky will be like molten brass

On the Day when the sky will be like molten brass

Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten copper

On a Day when the heavens will be like molten brass

It shall befall on a Day whereon the heaven shall become like Unto dregs of oil.

The Day that the sky will be like molten brass,

It shall befall on a Day whereon the sky will become like molten brass,

The day the sky becomes like molten brass,

The day when the sky will be like molten silver.

The day when the sky will be like molten copper,

The Day when the sky will be like molten metal;

The day (it befalls), the heaven shall become (red) like molten copper.

A day/time the sky/space becomes as the dead`s puss/melted metal .

The day when the sky will be like molten silver.

On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper

The Day that the sky will be like the boiling filth of oil, (or molten copper or silver or lead, etc.).

And no friend will ask of friend,

On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper

The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

On the day when the heavens become like molten metal.

On that Day the heaven shall become like molten copper,

The Day that the sky will be like the Al-Muhl.

On that Day the heavens shall become like molten brass,

On the Day when the sky will be like molten brass.

The day when the heaven will be (yawma taknu'l-sam'u is semantically connected to an omitted clause, implicitly taken to be yaqa`u, `it will take place') as molten silver,

Terrors of the Day of Judgement

Allah says that the torment will befall the disbelievers.

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاء كَالْمُهْلِ




The Day that the sky will be like the Al-Muhl.

Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid, `Ata, Sa`id bin Jubayr, `Ikrimah, As-Suddi and others have all said,

"Like the residue of oil."

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ