The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 287
PT. 28 AT-TAHRIM CH. 66 تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهرُ يَوْمَ لَا يُخْزِى الله النَّبِيَّ rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet وَالَّذِينَ امَنُوا مَعَهُ نُورُهُمْ يَسْعَى بَيْنَ nor those who have believed أَيْدِيهِمْ وَبِأَيْمَانِهِمْ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا with him. Their light will run before them and on their right اَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا وَاغْفِرْ لَنَا إِنَّكَ عَلَى hands. They will say Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us; surely, Thou hast power over all things. " '4284 كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ياَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ جَاهِدِ الْكُفَّارَ وَالْمُنْفِقِينَ strive hard وَاغْلُظْ عَلَيْهِمْ * وَمَأوبهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ * 10. O Prophet! strive against the disbelievers and the Hypocrites; and be strict against 4284. Commentary: b "8:30; 48:6; 64:10. for The never-ceasing desire perfection on the part of believers in Paradise as expressed in the words, "Our Lord perfect our light for us," shows that life in Paradise will not be a life of inaction. On the contrary, spiritual advance in Paradise will know no end, for as the believers will attain excellence, characteristic of a certain stage, they will not stop at that, but seeing in front of it a higher stage of excellence and thus finding| that the stage at which they had arrived was not the highest stage, will desire the attainment of the next higher stage, and so on without end. the believers will be imparted knowledge of new attributes of God which they will try to copy in themselves. From the verse it further appears that after entering Paradise, the believers will seek maghfirah, i. e. "suppression of a defect. " In this sense of maghfirah the verse means that the righteous will be continually praying to God for the attainment of perfection and complete immersion in divine light. They will be continually going upwards and will regard each state as defective in comparison with a higher one to which they will aspire and will, therefore, pray to God to suppress the defective state that they may be able to get to the higher one. This is the true significance of Istighfar of which the literal meaning In short the believers will go on making advancement in Paradise and shall never recede a step. Their activity far from ceasing will rather increase. The Holy Prophet is is, "asking forgiveness for one's reported to have said that in Paradise | lapses. " 3183