Surah: 76. al-Insan

And they will be waited upon from all around them in it with vessels of silver and goblets akwāb are cups without handles of crystal —

crystal of silver that is they are made of silver which is transparent like crystal — which they that is the ones passing around them in service have measured in a precise measure according to the measure required by the one drinking it neither more nor less which makes for a most delightful drink.

They fulfil their vows pledged in obedience to God and fear a day the evil of which will be widespread.

And they give food despite their love of it that is to say despite their love of food and their craving for it to the needy the poor and the orphan who does not have a father and the prisoner meaning the one who has been rightly imprisoned.

‘We feed you only for the sake of God seeking His reward. We do not desire any reward from you nor any thanks this contains the reason for the giving of the food. Now do they actually say this or is it that God knows this to be true of them and has thus praised […]

We have assuredly prepared for the disbelievers chains with which they are dragged through the Fire and fetters around their necks to which the chains will be attached and a hell-fire a fire set ablaze burning fiercely in which they shall be chastised.

Truly the righteous abrār is the plural of barr or bārr namely the obedient ones will drink from a cup ka’s is a vessel for drinking wine and this wine will be in it; what is meant is that they will drink from ‘wine’ a case where the actuality is referred to by the name […]

a spring ‘aynan substitutes for kāfūran containing the scent thereof from which the servants of God His friends drink making it gush forth plenteously directing it to wherever they wish of their dwellings.

Has there ever been — there has indeed been — for man Adam a period of time forty years in which he was a thing unmentioned? — he was during this period a fashioned in clay and not mentioned; alternatively what is meant by insān ‘man’ is the generic noun and by hīn ‘a period […]

Verily We created man the species from a drop of mixed fluid from a mixture that is from the seminal fluid of the man and the ovarian fluid of the woman that have mixed and blended so that We may test him trying him with the moral obligations of religion nabtalīhi is either a new […]