Surah Ar-Rahman 55:47
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 47 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?' The refrain now rests on the promise of the Gardens themselves, and al-Saadi notes that the offer of Paradise, held out to those who revere Him, is among the very greatest of favours. Ask yourself: I can be strangely ungrateful even for hope, treating the promise of an eternal home as a distant abstraction rather than a staggering kindness extended to me now. Which of His favours will I deny, including the mercy of being promised so much for so little? The refrain asks me to receive not only the gifts I already hold, but the gift of what I am being offered, and to let that promise actually pull on how I live.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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