al-Nushūr is interpreted in four ways:
1. al-Nushūr is used in the sense of life or vitality, as in the following verses:
He is the One Who sends down water from the sky in due measure. With it, We revive a dead land (that is, We give life/vitality to a dead land). Thus you will be brought forth. (al-Zukhruf 43:11)
It is Allah Who sends the winds, so they raise the clouds, and He drives them to a dead land, then gives life to the earth after its death. Such is the nushūr (that is, just as dead earth is revived and brings forth vegetation by water, so too will you be resurrected/given life after your death). (Fāṭir 35:9)
2. The word al-Nushūr is used in the sense of baʿth: resurrection or being raised to life, as in the following verses:
They possess not for themselves [the power of] death or life or nushūr (that is, nor the power to resurrect: they are not able to bring the dead to life). (al-Furqān 25:3)
They have taken gods from the earth; will they nashr (that is, will they resurrect the dead from the earth)?! (al-Anbiyāʾ 21:21)
And to Him is the nushūr (that is, resurrection after death [returning by being brought back to life]). (al-Mulk 67:15)
No! They do not expect nushūr (that is, they do not fear being resurrected after death). (al-Furqān 25:40)
3. The word nashr is used in the sense of spreading/dispersing, as in the following verses:
And He is the One Who spreads His mercy (that is, spreads His mercy: the rain). (al-Shūrā 42:28)
May your Lord spread for you from His mercy (that is, may He spread His provision for you). (al-Kahf 18:16)
And He is the One Who sends the winds as spreaders [nushran] before His mercy (that is, as spreaders of winds and clouds for rain)... (al-Furqān 25:48)
A similar example is found in Sūrat al-Aʿrāf.
...and Who sends the winds as spreaders [nushran] before His mercy (that is, as spreaders of winds and clouds for rain)?! (al-Naml 27:63)
...then you become human beings spreading out (that is, you disperse). (al-Rūm 30:20)
4. The word al-Nushūr is used in the sense of dispersing/separating, as in the following verses:
...when you have eaten, disperse at once (that is, depart)! (al-Aḥzāb 33:53)
And when the prayer has been concluded, disperse within the land (that is, spread out)! (al-Jumuʿa 62:10)
And He made the day a nushūr (that is, a time in which people disperse to seek their provision). (al-Furqān 25:47)
The first juzʾ (juzʾ: a thirtieth of the Qur'an) is completed here from the work al-Ashbāh wa'l-Naẓāʾir by Muqātil b. Sulaymān—may Allah's mercy be upon him.
With the permission of Allah the Exalted, the second juzʾ will follow this.
SECOND JUZʾ
Bismillāhi'r-Raḥmāni'r-Raḥīm