The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 168
CH. 55 AR-RAHMAN 60. Which, then, of the favours of your Lord will you twain deny? 61. Is the reward of goodness anything but goodness. 4081 62. Which, then, of the favours of your Lord will you twain deny? 63. And besides these two, there are two other Gardens 4082 64. Which, then, of the favours of your Lord will you twain deny?— speaks of the beauty of their persons. That women mentioned in these verses are the virtuous wives of believers in this life, is apparent from a well-known saying of the Holy. i. e نساء الدنيا أفضل من الحور العين. Prophet, viz the believing women of this world are superior to the hurīs of the next. 4081. Commentary: How adequately and beautifully the blessings of Paradise have been summed up in this brief verse! The word "goodness" is inclusive and fully expressive of all the conceivable favours that will be bestowed upon believers in the next life, and what greater good there could be than the pleasure of God (all) which believers will get in Paradise. (3:16) According to a saying of the Holy Prophet, means, "worship God as if you are seeing Him or at least He is seeing you" (Mishkāt). This means that in all his deeds and actions God is constantly before the 3064 PT. 27 فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِ بْنِ هَلْ جَزَاءُ الْإِحْسَانِ إِلَّا الْإِحْسَانُ فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّ بْنِ وَمِنْ دُونِهِمَا جَنَّتُنِ فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّ بْنِ eyes of a believer and as a reward for his actions he receives God's pleasure the sum total of all the blessings of Heaven. 4082. Commentary: The "two Gardens" mentioned in v. 47, may be the Gardens of Paradise; the "two Gardens" referred to in this verse may be the gardens of this world. The Muslims were promised gardens in the next world and as a proof of the fulfilment of this Divine promise they were also promised the gardens of this world which indeed they came to possess when they conquered the fertile valleys of Syria and Iraq. But the description of the "two Gardens" mentioned in v. 47 being different from that in the present verse shows that two categories of believers have been mentioned in this Sūrah; the believers to whom "Gardens" mentioned in v. 47 have been promised seem to be of a higher spiritual status than those