Surah Ar-Rahman 55:45
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 45 of 78
فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
Translation
Which, then, of your Lord’s blessings do you both deny?
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'So which of the favours of your Lord will you two deny?' Here the refrain closes the Surah's warnings before it turns, at last, to the Gardens, and al-Saadi notes that the whole terrifying passage was itself a mercy: a clear picture of the wrong road, given precisely so I would choose the right one. Ask yourself: everything up to here, the reckoning, the marks, the fire, was laid before me while I can still respond. Which of these favours, even the frightening ones, will I deny? A Lord who shows me the ruin before I reach it, and is about to show me the reward, is a Lord whose warnings are drenched in mercy. The refrain has trained me for this pivot: to receive both the warning and the promise as gifts from the same Merciful hand.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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