Tafseer of Taa-Haa · Taa-Haa · 20:119
And indeed, you will not be thirsty therein or be hot from the sun."
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And His statement (وَأَنَّكَ لا تَظْمَأُ فِيهَا) — the Qurʾān reciters differed concerning its recitation. Some reciters of Medina and Kūfa recited it with kasra: "wa-innaka," as a conjunction to His statement (إنَّ لَكَ). And some reciters of Medina and the majority of the reciters of Kūfa and Baṣra recited it as "wa-annaka," with fatḥa on the alif, as a conjunction to the "an" in His statement (أَلَّا تَجُوعَ فِيهَا وَلَا تَعْرَى). They directed its interpretation toward the meaning: that you have this and that. This recitation is the more agreeable of the two recitations to me, because Allah — blessed and exalted is His mention — promised that to Adam when He caused him to dwell in the Garden. That it is a conjunction to "an lā tajūʿa" is more fitting than that it should be the predicate of a new subject, even though the other is not far removed from correctness.
And the meaning of His statement (لَا تَظْمَأُ فِيهَا) is: you suffer no thirst in the Garden as long as you dwell in it. (وَلَا تَضْحَى) — He says: you are not exposed to the sun so that its heat would harm you, as Ibn Abī Rabīʿa said:
"She saw a man — when the sun strikes him, he stands exposed to it, and toward evening the cold seizes him."
And similar to what we have said concerning this, the people of exegesis said.
Mention of those who said that:
ʿAlī related to me, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, he said: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His statement (وَأَنَّكَ لَا تَظْمَأُ فِيهَا وَلَا تَضْحَى) — he says: neither thirst nor heat strikes you therein.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related to me, he said: my father related to me, he said: my uncle related to me, he said: my father related to me, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His statement (وَأَنَّكَ لَا تَظْمَأُ فِيهَا وَلَا تَضْحَى) — he says: neither heat nor harm strikes you.
Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ḥakīm al-Awdī related to me, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sharīk related to us, he said: my father related to me, on the authority of Khuṣayf, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, concerning (لَا تَظْمَأُ فِيهَا وَلَا تَضْحَى) — he said: the sun does not strike you.
Bishr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning (وَلَا تَضْحَى) — he said: the sun does not strike you.
