The Surah closes with a terrifying, graphic description of the psychological toll of the Last Day, explicitly declaring that when the "Deafening Blast" (al-ṣākhah) hits, "a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children."
Surah 80:33–37:
But when there comes the Deafening Blast—that Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children. For every man, that Day, will have a matter proceeding to occupy him.
The Destruction of Ingroup Bonds: To a sociologist, this sequence represents a thorough, theological attack on the natural, evolutionary survival instincts of the human species. The text does not merely state that people will be frightened; it deliberately picks apart the tightest, most sacred concentric circles of human relationship—siblings, parents, spouses, and infants—and asserts that panic will reduce every individual to an isolated, self-interested actor.
The Critique: This psychological conditioning serves a powerful dual purpose for an emergent, high-control religious collective. By continuously telling early converts that their closest blood relatives will instantly abandon them in the final cosmic crisis, the text subtly erodes the psychological authority of the traditional family unit. It forces the individual to view their non-Muslim parents and children as ultimate, temporary strangers, priming them to replace their organic biological loyalties with absolute, unmediated submission to the ideological state.