(  النَّاقُورِ … ) (…trumpet): It is the trumpet in which Israfil will blow. He will blow twice ns what is meant in this verse is the second blow. The Prophet (saws) said:

“How can I be comfortable when the one with the horn is holding it to his lip, his ears listening for when he will be ordered to blow, so he can blow.’ It was as if that was very hard upon the Companions of the Prophet (s.a.w), so he said to them: ‘Say: “Allah is sufficient for us and what a good protector He is, and upon Allah we rely.”[1]

(… نُقِرَ… ) (…is blown …): Meaning, the trumpet will be blown. This verse affects the emotions and the hearts. Bahz bin Hakim narrated that when Zurara bin Awfa prayed with this verse, saying (And when the trumpet is blown,), he fell down unconscious. Allah (swt) describes the matters of the Hereafter by using what people see in this worldly life; they used to blow the trumpet in their travels and wars. Blowing the trumpet causes fear and panic as if it is saying to the dead people: ‘Arise from your death for the time of Resurrection and Account has come’. In this regard, Allah (swt) says in another verse:

 وَلَهُ الْمُلْكُ يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِي الصُّورِ ۚ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ ۚ وَهُوَ الْحَكِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ

(And His is the dominion [on] the Day the Horn is blown. [He is] Knower of the unseen and the witnessed; and He is the Wise, the Acquainted.) (Al-An’am: 73)

Blowing the Trumpet signifies the coming of something, after the first Blow, all the creatures will die, and after the second Blow, all the dead creatures will rise from death. Allah 9swt) says:

 وَنُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَن فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَن شَاءَ اللَّهُ ۖ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَىٰ فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌ يَنظُرُونَ

(And the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will fall dead except whom Allah wills. Then it will be blown again, and at once they will be standing, looking on.) (Az-Zumar: 68)

Blowing the Trumpet is a great and fearful call for the dead to get out of their graves, as in His (swt) saying:

 يَوْمَ يَدْعُوكُمْ فَتَسْتَجِيبُونَ بِحَمْدِهِ وَتَظُنُّونَ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

(On the Day He will call you and you will respond with praise of Him and think that you had not remained [in the world] except for a little.”) (Al-Isra’:52)

This refers to the second Blow, when Allah (swt) commands the people to get out of their graves. Thereupon, they obey and submit to Him without negligence.

 

[1] Sunan At-Tirmidhi: Chapters on the description of the Day of Judgement, Ar-Riqaq, and Al-Wara’, Chapter: What Has Been Related About the Matter of the Sur, Hadith No. 2431.