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qāla qāʾilun minhum ʾinnī kāna lī qarīnun
One of them will say, ‘Indeed I had a companion
— Ali Quli Qarai
37Aṣ-ṢāffātالصافاتVerse 51 of 182
Those who set the Ranks37. Aṣ-Ṣāffātالصافات
al-Ṣaffāt
The Ranged Ones
MeccanVerse 51 of 182
37Aṣ-ṢāffātالصافاتVerse 51 of 182
The Ranged Ones
One of them will say, ‘Indeed I had a companion
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah As-Saffat – Verses 50-52
50. “Then shall some of them advance to others, questioning each other.”
51. “One of them will say: ‘Verily I had an intimate companion (in the world),”
52. “Who used to say: ‘Are you really among the believers (of Hereafter)?’”
In the feast of the people of Paradise, where they have sat on the thrones in front of each other, they begin questioning about their worldly companions. Through this verse the Qur’an implies that the sincere servants of Allah who, according to the previous verse, are in the spiritual and material bounties of Paradise, including the kinds of fruits of Paradise, from one side, and with the maidens (a nymph) of Paradise, from the other side, and the cups of the purified wine turned round them while they are leaning against the thrones in Paradise busy speaking with their sincere friends, suddenly some of them think of their past and their friends in the world, the same friends who separated their way and they are missed in Paradise and among them.
They want to know what their destiny is. Yes, while they are busy speaking and talk about everything, as the verse says:
Then, in the second and third verse, the Qur’an implicitly says that one of them remembers some events and then he turns to the others, talking as follows:
But unfortunately, he was led astray and paved the way of the rejecters of Resurrection. He repeatedly used to ask me whether I had really believed this word of theirs and confirmed it. The verse says: