Surah An Naziat Tafseer

Swearing by Five Characteristics that the Day of Judgement will occur

Ibn Mas`ud, Ibn Abbas, Masruq, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Abu Salih, Abu Ad-Duha and As-Suddi all said,

وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا

By those who pull out, drowning.

"These are the angels who remove the souls from the Children of Adam."

Among them are those whose souls are removed by the angels with difficulty, as if he is being drowned during its removal. There are those people whose souls the angels remove with ease, as if they were unraveling him (i.e., his soul from him) due to their briskness.

This is the meaning of Allah's statement,

وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا