The Troops
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[39:69]
And the earth will shine bright with her Sustainer’s light. And the record [of everyone’s deeds] will be laid bare, and all the prophets will be brought forward, and all [other] witnesses; and judgment will be passed on them all in justice. And they will not be wronged,

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* v.69 : Cf. 17:13-14 (and the corresponding note 18); also 18:49.
* See 4:41 and the corresponding note 52. Accordingly, the above phrase may well have the meaning of “all the prophets as witnesses,” i.e., for or against those to whom they conveyed God’s message. In all probability, however, the term shuhadā’ (or ashhād in 40:51) signifies here – as its singular shahīd obviously does in 50:21 – man’s newly-awakened consciousness, which will compel him to bear witness against himself on Judgment Day (cf. 6:130, 17:14, 24:24, 36:65, 41:20 ff.).