Surah Ar-Rahman 55:63
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 63 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?' Resting on the further Gardens, al-Saadi notes the refrain honours the sheer scale of what is offered, depth beyond depth of reward. Ask yourself: even the existence of ranks of reward is a mercy, because it means every extra step of effort, every higher reach of sincerity, is registered and matters, nothing good is wasted at a ceiling. Which favour will I deny by imagining my efforts all collapse into one undifferentiated outcome? The refrain keeps enlarging my sense of the generosity I'm dealing with: not a single prize, but tiers upon tiers, each responsive to how I lived.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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