Tafseer of The Dawn · Al-Fajr · 89:30
And enter My Paradise."
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Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His saying: فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي ("Then enter among My servants"), he said: enter among My righteous servants, وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي ("and enter My Garden").
Others said: the meaning of that is: enter into My obedience and enter My Garden.
* Mention of who said that:
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: Wakīʿ related to us, on the authority of Nuʿaym ibn Ḍamḍam, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Muzāḥim, the brother of al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي ("Then enter among My servants"), he said: into My obedience; وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي ("and enter My Garden"), he said: into My mercy.
Some of the grammarians of Baṣra gave to the meaning of His saying فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي ("Then enter among My servants") the import: enter into My retinue.
And some of the grammarians of Kūfa explained it thus: يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ("O reassured soul"), which is reassured by faith and which holds the reward and the resurrection to be true: return! The angels say to them, when the books are given into their right hands: ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ ("Return to your Lord"), to what Allah has prepared for you of reward. He said: and it may also be that it says to them: something of the nature of this saying, by which is meant: return from the worldly life to this place of return. He said: and you say to a man: "Whose are you?" and then he says: "A Muḍarī." Then you say: "Be a Tamīmī or a Qaysī," that is to say: you are one of these two. Thus "be" (kun) here is a connective particle (ṣila); likewise the return (al-rujūʿ) here is a connective particle, for he has already arrived on the Day of Resurrection, so that the command has the meaning of an announcement, as if He had said: O soul, you are content and well-pleased.
And it is transmitted from some of the predecessors (salaf) that he read this as: ( فادْخُلِي فِي عبدِي وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي ) ("Enter into My servant and enter My Garden").
* Mention of who said that:
Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf related to me, saying: al-Qāsim ibn Sallām related to us, saying: Ḥajjāj related to us, on the authority of Hārūn, on the authority of Abān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh, on the authority of Sulaymān ibn Qatta, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, that he read it as ( فادْخُلِي فِي عَبْدي ) ("Enter into My servant"), in the singular.
Khallād ibn Aslam related to me, saying: al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl informed us, on the authority of Hārūn al-Qāriʾ, he said: Hilāl related to me, on the authority of Abū al-Shaykh al-Hanāʾī ( فادْخُلِي فِي عَبْدِي ) ("Enter into My servant"). And according to the saying of al-Kalbī: ( فادْخُلِي فِي عَبْدِي وَادْخُلِي فِي جَنَّتِي ) ("Enter into My servant and enter into My Garden"), by which is meant: the soul returns into the body.
And the correct judgment concerning the reading of this is ( فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي ) ("Then enter among My servants"), with the meaning: enter among My righteous servants, on account of the agreement of the authoritative recitators upon it.
End of the exegesis of Surah Al-Fajr.
