Surah Ar-Rahman 55:52
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 52 of 78
فِيهِمَا مِن كُلِّ فَٰكِهَةٍۢ زَوْجَانِ
Translation
With every kind of fruit in pairs.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'In both of them are two kinds of every fruit.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note 'min kulli fakihatin zawjan', every fruit represented, and in pairs, variety heaped on variety, familiar and unfamiliar together. Ask yourself: I often imagine the reward as less, fewer desires, a stripped-down simplicity. This verse imagines more, an abundance of kinds, delight upon delight, desire fully met rather than suppressed. It reframes the goal: faith is not the renunciation of all pleasure but the trading of thin, fleeting pleasures for full, lasting ones. Am I picturing what I'm striving toward as a bare minimum, when the Qur'an keeps painting it as an overflowing feast?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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