Surah Ar-Rahman 55:48
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 48 of 78
ذَوَاتَآ أَفْنَانٍۢ
Translation
With shading branches.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Both having abundant branches.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note 'dhawata afnan', laden with spreading boughs, every kind of branch and shade and fruit: a picture of overflowing, varied abundance, nothing sparse or bare. Ask yourself: my imagination of reward tends to be thin, relief from pain, a bit of ease. This verse paints lush, branching plenty, variety upon variety. It stretches my sense of what my Lord's generosity looks like: not a minimal comfort but an extravagance of good. If the reward is this abundant, does it lift my sights beyond the small, scarce things I usually settle for, and reshape what I'm really working toward?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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