Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Waaqia, Ayah 22

Al-Waaqia · Ayah 22 · View Ayah
وَحُورٌ عِينٌۭ
And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes,

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

and houris maidens with intensely black eyes set against the whiteness of their irises with wide eyes ‘īn the ‘ayn here is inflected with a kasra instead of a damma because it the kasra better harmonises with the yā’; the singular is ‘aynā’ similar in pattern to hamrā’; a variant reading for wa-hūrun ‘īn has the genitive case wa-hūrin ‘īn

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(And (there are) fair ones with wide, lovely eyes,

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