Surah Ar-Rahman 55:61
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 61 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 follows the law that good is repaid with good, and al-Saadi notes that this principle itself, that my goodness is never lost, is one of the most reassuring of favours. Ask yourself: how much of my weariness in doing good comes from the quiet fear that it disappears into an ungrateful void? This verse, and the refrain sealing it, promise the opposite, that ihsan is registered and returned. Which favour will I deny by living as though goodness were futile? To be told, on divine authority, that the beautiful good I do will be answered in kind, that is a mercy meant to keep my tired hands doing good.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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