Saad (The letter Saad)

52. “And beside them will be chaste women restraining their glances, (companions) of equal age.”

53. “This is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning.”

54. “Verily this is Our sustenance for which there is no end.”

Reclining on the thrones, eating fruits, drinking pure drinks, and having spouse all are signs that the Resurrection is of the bodily resurrection.

The words in this verse are about the chaste women in Paradise.

It says:

“And beside them will be chaste women restraining their glances, (companions) of equal age.”

The Arabic word /tarf/ means eyelid, and it has also been used in the sense of ‘to look’.

The women of Paradise qualified by: “restraining their glances, (companions) of equal age” indicates that those women look only at their husbands and they are in love of only them and they do not think of anyone other than them, and this is one of the greatest advantages of a wife.

Some of the commentators have also rendered it into the state of languish of the eye which is an attractive state. The combination of these two meanings is also possible.

The Arabic term /’atrab/ in the sense of ‘of equal age’ is another attribute for the women of Paradise comparing their husbands, because the equality of age increases the attraction between two spouses. Or it is a description for those women themselves that they are all of the same age and they are young. The word /’atrab/ is the plural form of /tirb/.

In the next verse of the verses under discussion, all the great blessings of the people of Paradise, which were mentioned in the previous verses, are pointed out.

It says:

“This is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning.”

It is a promise which does not fail, it is pleasant, and is a promise from the side of Allah.

In order to emphasize on the eternity of these merits, Allah adds:

“Verily this is Our sustenance for which there is no end.”

Therefore, the sadness of destruction, which we have for the blessings of this world, does not exist in the next world. Those blessings are always helped by the Divine sources and there is no limit for them, and there will not appear even any decrease in them, because they exist under the Will of Allah.