كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا
Kallaaa izaaa dukkatil ardu dakkan dakka
No indeed! When the earth is pounded to dust, pounded and pounded,
No! When the earth is pounded to dust, pounded and pounded again,
Dukkat is the verb used at 7:143, where a mountain was flattened at the moment its Lord disclosed himself to it and Musa fell unconscious. The same thing is now said of the whole earth. And the sentence starting here holds off: it opens with when, adds the Lord and the angels, adds jahannam brought near, and only at 89:23 does it reach what follows, which is one person remembering.