سُورَةُ الغاشية
al-Ghāshiyah— The Overwhelming
Notes & justification
Abū ʿAmr and Shuʿbah read tuṣlā with ḍamm (the Shāṭibiyyah couplet; Yaʿqūb joins them in the table). Warsh reads the lām heavy (taghlīẓ) when he gives the alif fatḥ, and light (tarqīq) when he gives it taqlīl — the two go together. See Vol. I p. 121.
Bal yuʾthirūna (with yāʾ) — gather it (Abū ʿAmr); and taṣlā is read with ḍamm — gather it, pure (Abū ʿAmr, Shuʿbah); tusmaʿu with the masculine (yāʾ) is right (Ibn Kathīr, Abū ʿAmr), and the one of clarity (Nāfiʿ) reads it (with tāʾ, passive).
Read with ḍamm on the tāʾ: the sense is that the faces are made to roast in a fire there. It comes from ṣaliya fulānun al-nāra, 'he roasted in the fire', and aṣlaytuhu iyyāhā, 'I made him roast in it'; the verb is predicated of its object, and carries the pronoun of the first object, which stands in the place of the agent — 'they are made to roast, in a fire'. The rest read with fatḥ on the tāʾ: from ṣaliya al-nāra, to come into contact with the fire and suffer its heat; taṣlā is the imperfect of ṣalītu, meaning 'the faces roast in a fire', so the verb holds the pronoun of its agent, the faces, and nāran is accusative as its object. (al-Mūḍiḥ 3:1362)