Surah Ya-Sin 36:57
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 57 of 83
لَهُمْ فِيهَا فَٰكِهَةٌۭ وَلَهُم مَّا يَدَّعُونَ
Translation
There they have fruit and whatever they ask for.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'For them there is fruit, and for them whatever they call for.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the closing of the gap that defines earthly life: here, wanting and having are almost never aligned, desire outruns fulfilment, or fulfilment arrives drained of the wanting. There, 'whatever they call for' simply is. Ask yourself: so much of my restlessness is the space between what I long for and what I hold. I get the thing and the wanting has moved on; I want the thing and cannot reach it. This verse describes a state with no such gap, desire and its answer, at last, in perfect step. Recognising that this ache for seamless fulfilment can only truly be met there, do I stop demanding that this world deliver what it was never built to?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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