Tafsir al-Jalalayn — al-Ma’arij 70:38
Does each one of them hope to be admitted into a Garden of Bliss?
Does each one of them hope to be admitted into a Garden of Bliss?
Nay! — meant to thwart their hopes of entering Paradise. Indeed We created them as others from what they know from drops of sperm and so one cannot hope for Paradise merely on account of this one hopes for it by being God-fearing.
and who affirm the truth of the Day of Judgement of Requital
and who are apprehensive of the chastisement of their Lord —
lo! there is no security from the chastisement of their Lord from its being sent down —
and those who guard their private parts
except from their wives and those whom their right hands own in the way of slavegirls for in that case they are not blameworthy;
but whoever seeks beyond that those are the infringers who transgress the bounds of what is lawful stepping into what is unlawful;
and those who are keepers faithful guardians of their trusts amānātihim a variant reading has the singular amānatihim that to which they are entrusted of religion and the affairs of this world and their covenant the one taken from them regarding such things
and in whose wealth there is an acknowledged due namely alms