19. Surah Maryam
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
لَا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا إِلَّا سَلَامًا...
19: 62. They will not there hear any vain discourse, but only salutations of peace:
C2512. Salam, translated "Peace", has a much wide signification. It includes;
- a sense of security and permanence, which is unknown in this life;
- soundness, freedom from defects, perfection as in the word salim;
- preservation, salvation, deliverance, as in the word sallama,
- salutation, accord with those around us;
- resignation, in the sense that we are satisfied and not discontented;
- besides the ordinary meaning of Peace, i.e., freedom from any jarring element. All these shades of meaning are implied in the word Islam. (R).
...وَلَهُمْ رِزْقُهُمْ فِيهَا بُكْرَةً وَعَشِيًّا ﴿٦٢﴾
and they will have therein their sustenance, morning and evening.
C2513. Rizq: literally sustenance or means of subsistence, the term covers all the means of perfect satisfaction of body and soul.
Morning and evening, i.e., early and late, all the time, always. (R).
Other versions:
19:62
Jannati AAadnin allatee waAAada alrrahmanu AAibadahu bialghaybi innahu kana waAAduhu ma/tiyyan |
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning |
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[theirs will be the] gardens of perpetual bliss which the Most Gracious has promised unto His servants, in a realm which is beyond the reach of human perception: [and,] verily, His promise is ever sure of fulfilment! |
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Gardens of Eden, which the Beneficent hath promised to His slaves in the unseen. Lo! His promise is ever sure of fulfilment - |
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The gardens of perpetuity which the Beneficent Allah has promised to His servants while unseen; surely His promise shall come to pass. |
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Gardens of Eternity, those which (Allah) Most Gracious has promised to His servants in the Unseen: for His promise must (necessarily) come to pass. |
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Paradise which is pictured in the Garden of Eden AL-Rahman has promised to His devoted servants who apprehend it mentally even though hitherto unseen. Indeed, His promise is truth personified and shall come to pass. |
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The gardens of Eden, which the Almighty had promised His servants in the unseen. His promise must come to pass. |
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