Their denial of sijjīn and of the fact that their actions are being recorded necessarily entails they deny being taken to account on judgment day. I have explained in the previous surah that the genitive construction (day of dīn) is to highlight the salient and most prominent feature of that day. What is that day defined by? By people being taken to account for their actions.
As such, their denial of the day of dīn acts not as a badal (apposition) or ‘atf bayān (appositional clarification) of verse 10 as commonly understood, but as a separate quality that is necessarily entailed by the first.
For those who deny the day of dīn
Their denial of sijjīn and of the fact that their actions are being recorded necessarily entails they deny being taken to account on judgment day. I have explained in the previous surah that the genitive construction (day of dīn) is to highlight the salient and most prominent feature of that day. What is that day defined by? By people being taken to account for their actions.
As such, their denial of the day of dīn acts not as a badal (apposition) or ‘atf bayān (appositional clarification) of verse 10 as commonly understood, but as a separate quality that is necessarily entailed by the first.