Surah Ar-Rahman 55:72
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 72 of 78
حُورٌۭ مَّقْصُورَٰتٌۭ فِى ٱلْخِيَامِ
Translation
Dark-eyed, sheltered in pavilions.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Pure companions, reserved in pavilions.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note 'maqsurat fi-l-khiyam', kept, honoured, dwelling in their own pavilions: an image of protected preciousness, dignity, and belonging, not exposure. Ask yourself: this world tends to strip privacy and dignity, to put everything on display, to treat concealment as loss. The verse honours the reserved, the protected, the not-for-public, presenting modesty and shelteredness as marks of worth, not restriction. It quietly challenges my instinct to expose and be exposed. Where might guarding something, my attention, my relationships, my inner life, from constant public display be an act of honouring it, the way these companions are honoured in their pavilions?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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