Surah Ar-Rahman 55:58
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 58 of 78
كَأَنَّهُنَّ ٱلْيَاقُوتُ وَٱلْمَرْجَانُ
Translation
Like rubies and brilliant pearls.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'As if they were rubies and coral.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the imagery of clarity and purity, the ruby's translucent depth, the coral's fine beauty, signalling a loveliness that is flawless, radiant from within. Ask yourself: this world's beauty is always mixed, always fading, always hiding some flaw beneath the surface. The verse points to a beauty with no such shadow, pure through and through. It relocates my longing: the aching pull toward beauty that this life keeps half-satisfying and then disappointing is meant to lead me toward the unmixed, unfading kind. Am I letting the flawed beauties I chase here become idols, or signposts pointing to their flawless Source and the reward He keeps?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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