الآية رقم (4) - يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ

(4) - (It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed, (4))

People will be like moths on this Day, scattered about in plenty and going around in different directions, humbled and confused. This is at the beginning when they get out of the graves, do not know where to go. Allah (swt) says:

 أَفَلَا يَعْلَمُ إِذَا بُعْثِرَ مَا فِي الْقُبُورِ ٰ﴿

 (But does he not know that when the contents of the graves are scattered,) (Al-Aadiyaat: 9)

 يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ ٰ﴿

 (The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.) (Al-Ma’arij: 43)

When getting out from their graves, they hurry like dispersed moths, and they are like the scatted locusts when moving toward the gathering land. Allah (swt) says:

 خُشَّعًا أَبْصَارُهُمْ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُّنتَشِرٌ % مُّهْطِعِينَ إِلَى الدَّاعِ ۖ يَقُولُ الْكَافِرُونَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَسِرٌ ٰ﴿

 (Their eyes humbled, they will emerge from the graves as if they were locusts spreading, % Racing ahead toward the Caller. The disbelievers will say, “This is a difficult Day.”) (Al-Qamar: 7-8)

Look at the difference; Allah (swt) chose for the first status the moths which are delicate-winged insects that may crumple between fingers and smashed. This is how the dead are when they first emerge from the graves in their weakest condition, confused, bumping into each other. Whereas, the locusts fly in organized flocks, this is the difference between the first getting out and what follows it.