Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:20
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 20 of 96
وَفَٰكِهَةٍۢ مِّمَّا يَتَخَيَّرُونَ
Translation
[there will be] any fruit they choose;
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And fruit, from whatever they choose.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note 'mimma yatakhayyarun', fruit precisely to their choosing, desire and provision in perfect alignment, no gap between wanting and having. Ask yourself: so much of my restlessness here is that gap, I want what I cannot have, or get what I no longer want, or the thing arrives drained of the longing that made it precious. This verse pictures a state where choice and fulfilment simply coincide. It names, beneath the fruit, the deep human ache for a world where my desires and my reality finally agree. Recognising that seamless fulfilment is a feature of the Gardens and not of this world, do I stop demanding that this life close a gap it was never built to close?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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