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1. The Merciful one, possessor of vast mercy.

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2. He taught the Qur’ān to people by making its memorization easy and facilitating the understanding of its meanings.

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3. He created man perfectly and formed him in the best manner.

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4. He taught him how to express what is within himself in speech and writing.

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5. He fixed a perfectly calculated course for the sun and moon, to teach people the number of years and calculation.

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6. Plants that do not have a stem and trees prostrate to Allah, (may He be glorified), in submission and surrender to Him.

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7. He raised the sky above the earth as a roof for it. He established justice on earth and instructed His servants with it.

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ed of them. [55:7] And He has raised the heaven and set up the balance. He has established justice, [55:8] [declaring] that you should not contravene, that is to say, so that you may not do wrong, with regard to the balance, that [instrument] with which one weighs. [55:9] And observe the weights with justice, fairly, and do not skimp the balance, [do not] decrease [the value of] what is being weighed. [55:10] And the earth, He placed it. He fixed it [in place], for [all] creatures: man, jinn and others.…

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8. He established justice so that you, O people, are not unjust and deceitful in weighing and measurement.

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And He has raised the heaven and set up the balance. He has established justice, [55:8] [declaring] that you should not contravene, that is to say, so that you may not do wrong, with regard to the balance, that [instrument] with which one weighs. [55:9] And observe the weights with justice, fairly, and do not skimp the balance, [do not] decrease [the value of] what is being weighed. [55:10] And the earth, He placed it. He fixed it [in place], for [all] creatures: man, jinn and others.…

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9. Maintain the weighing justly between yourselves and do not give short weight or measure when you measure or weigh for others.

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10. He prepared the earth for the creation to settle on it.

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11. It contains trees that produce fruit and date-palms that have receptacles that split open to reveal clusters.

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12. It contains grain with straw like wheat and barley and the different types of grain that you have been provided as food. It contains plants whose fragrances you find to be pleasant.

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containing its flowers, [55:12] and grain, such as wheat and barley, with husk, and fragrant herb. [55:13] So which of your Lord’s favours, graces, will you deny? (tukadhdhiban is mentioned thirty one times; the interrogative is meant [to be understood] as an affirmative, judging by what al-Hakim [al- Naysaburi] reported [byway of an isnad] from Jabir [b.…

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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14. He created Adam (peace be upon him) from dried clay that has a clatter like that of baked clay.

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that they said, ‘Not one of your graces, our Lord, do we deny, for [all] praise belongs to You’ ”). [55:14] He created man, Adam, of dry clay ( salsdl, a dry hollow mud producing an echo if tapped), re¬ sembling the potter’s (fakhkhar, clay that has been baked), [55:15] and He created the Jann, the father of the jinn, namely, Iblls, of a smokeless flame of fire. [55:16] So which of your Lord’s favours will you deny? [55:17] Lord of the two Eafts, [the points of] the winter sunrise and the summer sunrise, and Lord of the two Wefts: likewise [the two points of sunset].

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15. He created the father of the jinn from a flame that is pure of smoke.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

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17. Lord of the sun’s two points of rising and its two points of setting in winter and summer.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Khalifa b. Khayyat, Ta’rikh, eds. N. M. Fawwaz et al. (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya, 1995), 65. [55:18] So which of your Lord’s favours will you deny? [55:19] He has loosed the two waters, the sweet and the salty; [and so] they meet, in the perception of the eye. [55:20] Between them there is a barrier, by His power, exalted be He. They do not overstep, neither of the two encroaches upon the other to become mixed with it. [55:21] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny?

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19. Allah mixed the two seas, the salty and the sweet, that converge as far as the eye can see.

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20. Between them is a barrier that prevents each one of them from transgressing over the other so that the sweet remains sweet and the salty remains salty.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

aches upon the other to become mixed with it. [55:21] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:22] From [both of] them, from the point at which they [seem to] meet — but which is actually from [only] one of the two, and that is, the salt water — is brought forth (yukhraju, passive, may also be read as acftive, yakhruju, ‘emerge’) the pearl and the coral (marjan, these are red pieces of shell, or small pearls). [55:23] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:24] His are the crafted ships [that sail] in the sea [appearing] like landmarks, like mountains in their tremend…

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22. From these seas pearls and coral emerge.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

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24. He, (may He be glorified), alone has control of the ships that sail on the oceans like mountains.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

untains in their tremendous size and height. [55:25] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:26] Everyone who is on it, that is, [on] the earth, of animal beings, will perish (man, ‘who’, is used to indicate predominance of rational beings); [55:27] yet there will remain the countenance of your Lord, His Essence, [the countenance] of majesty, magnificence, and munificence, towards believers, through His graces to them. [55:28] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny?

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26. Every creation that is on the surface of the earth will inevitably perish.

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27. The face of your Lord, O Messenger, the One of greatness, kindness and bounty for His servants, will remain and will never perish.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

owards believers, through His graces to them. [55:28] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:29] All that is in the heavens and the earth implore Him, either by way of speech or by their very State [of dependence on Him], for the strength which they require for worship, [for] provision, forgive¬ ness and other things.…

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29. The angels in the heavens and the jinn and men on earth ask Him for their needs. Every day he brings about a matter from the affairs of His servants such as giving life, death, provision etc.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

equesting [something] and so on and so forth. [55:30] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:31] We will attend to you. We shall turn to reckon with you, O you two heavy ones!, mankind and jinn. [55:32] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55 : 33] O company of jinn and humans, if you are able to pass through, to exit from, the confines, the regions, of the heavens and the earth, then pass through! — a command [meant] to challenge them to what they are incapable of [doing].…

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31. I will attend to your reckoning, O men and jinn. and I will recompense each one with the reward or punishment he deserves.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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33. Allah will say on the Day of Judgment, when He gathers jinn and men: O group of jinn and men, if you are able to find for yourselves an exit from one part of the heavens and earth then do so. You will never be able to do so except with power and evidence, and where do you have that?

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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35. A flame of smokeless fire will be sent on you, O men and jinn, and smoke without a flame, and you will not be able to protect yourselves.

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, and you have no power for such a thing. [ 55 : 34 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:35] Againft you will be unleashed a heat of fire ( shuwdz, can either mean that the flame thereof has no smoke or [that it does have it] with it) and a flash of brass, without any flame, and you will not be able to seek help, you will not be able to defend yourselves againSt this, nay, it will drive you to the site of the Gathering. [55:36] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny?

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

will drive you to the site of the Gathering. [55:36] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [ 55 : 37 ] And when the heaven is Split open, when it becomes open with [many] gates [in preparation] for the descent of the angels, and it turns crimson ( wardatan, [literally, a rose’], in other words, red like this [rose]), like tanned leather, red skins, in contract to its [the heavens] usual appearance (the response to idha, ‘when’, is [along the lines of] fa-ma azama’l-hawli, ‘How great will be the terror then!’). [55:38] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny?

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37. When the sky will split open for the angels to descend from it and it will be red like molten lead or the like due to the terror of the day of judgment.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

hawli, ‘How great will be the terror then!’). [55:38] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [ 55 : 39 ] Thus on that day no man will be questioned about his sin, nor any jinn, about his sin; but they are questioned on some other occasion: By your Lord, We shall question them all [Q. 15:92] ( al-jann in this instance and in what will follow denotes the jinn, and also in both cases al-ins denotes human beings). [55:40] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:41] The guilty will be recognised by their mark: blackened faces and bruised eyes; so they will be seized by the fo…

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39. On that great day no man or jinn will be asked about their sins, because Allah knows their deeds.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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41. The guilty ones will be recognised on that day by their mark, which is the blackness of their faces and the blueness of their eyes. Their forelocks will be tied to their feet and they will be thrown into Hell.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

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43. It will be said to them in rebuke: This is the Hell that the guilty ones used to reject in the world, which is before their eyes and which they are unable to deny.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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44. They will go between it and water that is extremely hot.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

of the Fire (anin is defective, like qadin). [55:45] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [ 5 5:46] But for those who feared, that is, for every one of them, or for all of them together, the Station of their Lord, the Standing before Him for the Reckoning and therefore refrained from being disobedient to Him, there will be two gardens. [55:47] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:48] Both with ( dhawata, the dual form of the regular form dhawat, with its lam [its third conso¬ nant] is changed into a ydj [abundant] branches ( afnan is the plural oifanan, similar [in…

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46. Those who fear to stand before their Lord in the Hereafter, and therefore have faith and do righteous deeds, will have two gardens.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

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48. These two gardens will have huge fresh branches producing fruit.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

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50. In the two gardens there will be two springs flowing between them with water.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

n both of them there are two flowing Springs. [55:51] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:52] In both of them, of every fruit (fakiha ) of [the fruits of] this world — or [it, fakiha, means] all those things in which one delights ( yutafakkahu bihi ) 2 — there are two kinds, two varieties, one juicy, one dried, and those which in this world are bitter, like colocynth, will be sweet [therein]. [55:53] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny?

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52. In them there will be two types of every fruit to enjoy.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

ter, like colocynth, will be sweet [therein]. [55:53] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:54] [They will be] reclining (muttaki’ina is a circumstantial qualifier operated by an omitted [verb], that is to say, yatana“amuna, they will enjoy bliss [while reclining]’) upon couches lined with [heavy] silk brocade, (iStabraq ) thick or coarse silk, the outer lining being of fine silk ( sundus ).…

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54. Reclining on spreads, whose inner lining will be of coarse silk, and the fruits that they will reap from the two gardens will be close and within reach of a person standing, sitting or reclining.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

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56. In them there will be women who will restrict their gaze to their husbands, whose virginity was not broken by any man or jinn before their husbands.

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

fruit as in the produce or yield of a plant, for which Arabic uses thimar. [ 55 : 55 ] So which of your Lord’s favours will you deny? [55:56] In them , in the two gardens and what they comprise of upper chambers and palaces, are maidens of restrained glances, [restricting] their eyes to those Spouses of theirs from among [either] the men or the jinn who are reclining, [maidens] who have not been touched, [who] have not been deflowered — and these [maidens] are [either] houris or women of this world who [will] have been created [anew], by any man or jinn before them. [ 55 : 57 ] So which…

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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58. As though they are rubies and coral in their beauty and purity.

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

you deny? [55:58] It is as though they are rubies, in their purity, and pearls, in their fairness. [ 55 : 59 ] So which of your Lord’s favours will you deny? [55:60] Is the reward of goodness, [manifested] through obedience, anything but goodness?, [granted] through bliss? [55:61] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:62] And beside these, two mentioned gardens, there will be two [other] gardens, in addition, for those who feared the Standing before their Lord. [55:63] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [ 5 5 -.64] Deep green (mudhammatan, [this means that they a…

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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60. The reward of those who properly followed their Lord is only that Allah will give them a proper recompense.

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

fairness. [ 55 : 59 ] So which of your Lord’s favours will you deny? [55:60] Is the reward of goodness, [manifested] through obedience, anything but goodness?, [granted] through bliss? [55:61] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:62] And beside these, two mentioned gardens, there will be two [other] gardens, in addition, for those who feared the Standing before their Lord. [55:63] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [ 5 5 -.64] Deep green (mudhammatan, [this means that they are almost] black on account of the intensity of their greenness). [55:65] So which of you…

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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62. Below those two mentioned gardens are another two gardens.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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64. Both of the deepest green.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

ccount of the intensity of their greenness). [55:65] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [ 5 5:66] In both of them will be two gushing fountains, rushing with water, unceasing. [55:67] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:68] In both of them will be fruits and date-palms and pomegranates, the [latter] two [fruits] being from among these [fruits of the two gardens]; but it is also said that they belong to [the fruits of] some other [garden]. [ 55 : 69 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:70] In them, that is, in the two gardens and their palaces and…

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66. In these two gardens there are springs that forcefully gush forth with water. The gushing of their water does not stop.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

gushing fountains, rushing with water, unceasing. [55:67] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:68] In both of them will be fruits and date-palms and pomegranates, the [latter] two [fruits] being from among these [fruits of the two gardens]; but it is also said that they belong to [the fruits of] some other [garden]. [ 55 : 69 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:70] In them, that is, in the two gardens and their palaces and what they comprise, are maidens [who are]good, in nature [and with], beautiful, faces. [55:71] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou den…

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

68. In these two gardens there are abundant fruit, huge date-palms and pomegranates.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

70. In these four gardens there are women with good characters and beautiful faces.

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

good, in nature [and with], beautiful, faces. [55:71] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:72] Houris ( hur, this means maidens with intense black eyes set against the [intense] whiteness [of the iris]) secluded, concealed, in pavilions, made of studded gems, annexed to the palaces, like boudoirs. [ 55 : 73 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:74] Untouched by any man before them, before these [soon-to-be] Rouses of theirs, or jinn. [ 55 : 75 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny?

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72. Houris covered in tents as protection for them.

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

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74. Before their husbands no man or jinn has come close to them.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

76. Reclining on cushions covered with green covers, and beautiful carpets.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

e [soon-to-be] Rouses of theirs, or jinn. [ 55 : 75 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:76] Reclining, namely, their Rouses ( muttaki’ina, syntactically, it is as [described] above) upon green cushions (rafraf is the plural of rafrafa, which can mean [either] ‘carpets’ or cushions’) and lovely drug¬ gets (' abqariyyin, the plural of ‘abqariyya, which are velvet carpets). [ 55 : 77 ] So which of your Lord’s favours willyou deny? [55:78] Blessed be the Name of your Lord, He of Majesty and Munificence (as [explained] above; the word ism is extra). Meccan, except for verses…

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77. Which of Allah’s numerous favours to you, O group of Jinn and men, do you deny?

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78. The name of your Lord, the Possessor of majesty, favour and bounty over His servants, is great and full of goodness.

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