Surah Ar-Rahman 55:70
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 70 of 78
فِيهِنَّ خَيْرَٰتٌ حِسَانٌۭ
Translation
There are good-natured, beautiful maidens.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'In them are companions good and beautiful.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the order of the two words, 'khayrat hisan', good before beautiful: goodness of character named first, beauty second. Ask yourself: the world I live in reverses this order relentlessly, prizing beauty and treating character as an afterthought. This verse quietly restores the true ranking, good, then beautiful. It presses me to examine what I actually value in others, and cultivate in myself: am I investing in the surface the world applauds, or in the goodness the Qur'an lists first? The reward here honours character above appearance; do my own priorities?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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