Wealth, family, and ease
Verses describing family relations, wealth, and the experience of ease, happiness, or comfort.
- 20
- verses
- 19
- Meccan
- 1
- Medinan
- 0.93
- cohesion
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The verses
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فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
So he will be in a pleasant life -
أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ
Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,
وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا
And return to his people in happiness.
وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ
And his wife and his children,
فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُۥ لِلْعُسْرَىٰ
We will ease him toward difficulty.
وَنَعْمَةٍ كَانُوا۟ فِيهَا فَٰكِهِينَ
And comfort wherein they were amused.
وَأَبْصِرْ فَسَوْفَ يُبْصِرُونَ
And see, for they are going to see.
فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُۥ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ
We will ease him toward ease.
وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًا
And children present [with him]
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
He will be in a pleasant life.
وَجَآءَ أَهْلُ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ
And the people of the city came rejoicing.
وَلَسَوْفَ يَرْضَىٰ
And he is going to be satisfied.
وَإِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِمُ ٱنقَلَبُوا۟ فَكِهِينَ
And when they returned to their people, they would return jesting.
سَيَهْدِيهِمْ وَيُصْلِحُ بَالَهُمْ
He will guide them and amend their condition
إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فِىٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا
Indeed, he had [once] been among his people in happiness;
وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ
And his mother and his father
وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ
And his wife and his brother
أَرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا يَرْتَعْ وَيَلْعَبْ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَحَٰفِظُونَ
Send him with us tomorrow that he may eat well and play. And indeed, we will be his guardians.
تَعْرِفُ فِى وُجُوهِهِمْ نَضْرَةَ ٱلنَّعِيمِ
You will recognize in their faces the radiance of pleasure.
ضَاحِكَةٌ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌ
Laughing, rejoicing at good news.
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