The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 400
CH. 15 R. 4. AL-HIJR PT. 14 46. Verily, "the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains of water. 1749 47. 'Enter therein with peace, in safety. '1750 اِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي جَنَّتٍ وَعُيُونٍ ادْخُلُوهَا بِسَلْمِ أَمِنِينَ "51:16; 52:18; 68:35; 77:42; 78:32. allotted to it) signify that each of the inmates of Hell will enter it by the door corresponding to his offence. With regard to Heaven also it is reported in a saying of the Holy Prophet that each of its inmates will enter it by a door corresponding to his specific good deeds (Bukhārī, ch. on Fadā'il-e-Ashābun-Nabi). The word (a portion) does not mean, as is clear from this verse, part of one's body. It only means a section or party of sinners as distinct from others. This explains the meaning of this word in 2:261 where it signifies one bird as distinct from others and not different parts of one bird. Incidentally, it may be mentioned here that elsewhere the Quran mentions the number of guards placed over Hell as nineteen (74:31). The reason for this might lie in the fact that man has been endowed with nine major senses i. e. the seven exteroceptive senses mentioned above, one proprioceptive sense of position in space and one enteroceptive sense arising from internal organs relating to sensations of hunger, thirst, etc. These, coupled with their nine spiritual counterparts together with the guardian or the controlling sense i. e. the will-power which dominates and controls all these different faculties of human nature, are nineteen in number and hence the nineteen guardians of Hell. This specific mention of the number of the guardian angels of Hell as nineteen forcefully draws attention to the fact that man becomes deserving of Hell on account of his having abused his God-given faculties. 1749. Commentary: The verse means to say that whereas, as stated in the preceding verses, the followers of Satan on account of their rejection of the Divine Message will be cast into Hell, which means that in the next life a feeling of intense frustration and grief over lost opportunities will eat into their hearts and they will be given the punishment of burning fire, the believers will bask in the sunshine of God's favour and will be under the shadow of divine gardens, and fountains of divine knowledge will flow from their breasts. 1750. Commentary: The words, Enter therein with peace in safety, seem to have been spoken to believers by angels. Just as angels encourage believers with the message of good cheer and divine pleasure in this life (10:65) they will come forward to convey the same 1608