Surah Ar-Rahman 55:68
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 68 of 78
فِيهِمَا فَٰكِهَةٌۭ وَنَخْلٌۭ وَرُمَّانٌۭ
Translation
With fruits- date palms and pomegranate trees.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'In both of them are fruit, and date-palms, and pomegranates.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the naming of specific, familiar fruits, dates and pomegranates, beloved and known, not exotic abstractions. Ask yourself: the reward is described in the very things I can taste today. There is tenderness in that: my Lord speaks of the next life in the language of this one's sweetness, so my heart can reach toward it. It also dignifies ordinary earthly delights, the date, the pomegranate in my hand now, as small foretastes rather than distractions. When I next eat something simple and good, could I let it be a reminder rather than a rival, a thread connecting this table to the promised one?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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