Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:26
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 26 of 96
إِلَّا قِيلًۭا سَلَٰمًۭا سَلَٰمًۭا
Translation
only clean and wholesome speech.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Only the saying: Peace, peace.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note the one form of speech that remains in the Gardens is 'salaman salama', peace upon peace: greeting, reassurance, and blessing, the tongue reduced to nothing but what heals and calms. Ask yourself: when every empty and harmful word is stripped away, what is left is peace, the only speech worth keeping. It offers a stunning standard for my own tongue: after removing all my idle and cutting words, would anything remain? This verse pictures a community where the only thing anyone says is a blessing. My words are the one part of Paradise's atmosphere I can start practising today. If I filtered my speech down to what is either beneficial or peace-giving, how much would I still say, and how much better would the rooms I enter feel?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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