Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Qamar, Ayah 55
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Tafsir
in an abode of truth a place of truth wherein there is no idle talk or cause for sin — the collective noun maq‘ad is meant here; a variant reading has maqā‘id ‘abodes’ in other words they are in congregations in Paradise that are free from idle talk and cause for sin in contrast to the congregations of this world which are rarely free from such things syntactically this statement is considered a second predicate and also a substitution; it the ‘abode’ may be understood as being ‘one of truth’ regardless of whether one reads the substitution as being of the part for the whole or otherwise; before a King malīk this form is hyperbolic that is to say One of a mighty and vast kingdom Who is Omnipotent Powerful Whom nothing can thwart namely God exalted be He ‘inda indicates glorious rank and closeness to His bounty exalted be He.
Related Hadiths
Behold! the Dispensers of justice will be seated on the pulpits of light beside God, on the right side of the Merciful, Exalted and GlorioUS. Either side of the Being is the right side both being equa...
" 0 Possessor of Glory and Honour."
And there he was sitting on the Throne between the heaven and the earth.
Hajjaj b. Artata reported from Isma’il: Do not sit in the place of honour of anyone except with his permission.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Firmly established) they are in an honoured place in Paradise (in the favour of a Mighty King) Who is able to dispense both reward and punishment to His slaves'.