The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 401
PT. 14 AL-HIJR 48. And "We shall remove whatever of rancour may be in their breasts so that they will become as brothers seated on thrones, facing one another. 1751 CH. 15 وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِّنْ غِلٌ إِخْوَانًا عَلَى سُرُرٍ مُّتَقْبِلِينَ لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا نَصَبٌ مَا هُمْ مِّنْهَا Fatigue shall not touch. 49 بِمُخْرَجِينَ them there, nor shall they ever be ejected therefrom. 1752 a7:44. 35:36. 11:109; 18:109. message to them in the life to come. The words "peace" and "security" signify, respectively, freedom from internal anxieties that eat into the heart of a person and from external pain and punishment. The word (peace) also points to the permanent promise held out to believers, and expressed in the clause 'Peace' a message from your Lord, the Merciful (36:59). The verse also shows that so long as the greeting of "peace" does not reach a man from God, he can enjoy no security. The verse further implies that in spite of the challenge of Satan that he would mislead believers (v. 40), the latter will not fail to enter the eternal abode of bliss. 1751. Commentary: Elsewhere the Quran says that there are two Heavens for the righteous (55:47), one in the present life and the other in the next world. Regarding the latter, the verse under comment says that all vestige of rancour and malice will disappear from the hearts of its dwellers. Hence, in the present life also, only those can be said to be enjoying a truly heavenly life whose hearts are free from all feelings of rancour and spite against their brethren. The words, seated on thrones facing one another, are also intended to point to the state of loving equality existing among the Faithful. The word (thrones) has been repeatedly used in the Quran with regard to the dwellers of Paradise (37:45; 52:21; 56:16; 88:14). This is to hint that every dweller of Heaven will enjoy perfect freedom and independence, like a monarch on his obedience to Whom brings glory and throne. He will obey only God, power to man and bestows real freedom on him and he will not be subject to the orders of any other. In 16:32, we are told that the dwellers of Heaven will have what they shall wish for (see also 25:17, 39:35, & means that every 42:23) which inmate of Heaven will be supreme in his own respective sphere. This is the 1609 same as is hinted at in the words, seated on thrones. 1752. Commentary: The words, Fatigue shall not touch them there, embody the indirect hint that Heaven shall be a place of constant and continuous work. In