When the sky is rent asunder. [Space will be explored and Astronomy will bring amazing knowledge of the Cosmos]

Attentive to its Lord as commanded.

And when the earth is spread out. [It is widely populated]

And casts out whatever is in it and becomes void. [The earth will bring forth its fossils and minerals through Archaeology, drilling and mining]

Attentive to its Lord as com?manded.

O You human being! You have been toiling on towards your Lord ? painfully toiling ? then you shall meet Him. [Wittingly or unwittingly, mankind is working their way toward the Divine System. Trial and Error can make them advance only to an imperfect and fragile system of life. But Divine revelation economizes human effort, saves them centuries of pursuit in toil, and ensures for them a perfect, enduring System of Life]

Then whoever is given his book in his right hand,

His account will be made easy. [17:71]

And he returns rejoicing to his people (family, and ideologically synchronous minds).

But as for him who is given his Book behind his back (he who has turned his back to the Book, looking back to the ancestral traditions),