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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Commentary on Tafsir al-Jalalayn: ((And with them are those who avert their gaze)) keeping their eyes fixed on their husbands, not looking at anyone else because of their beauty in their estimation ((large-eyed

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He said
And with them will be women limiting [their] glances, with large, [beautiful] eyes, وعندهم قاصرات الطرف عين
[As-Saffat 37:48]
with them, with the people of Paradise who are the sincere servants of Allah, because Allah said
But not the chosen servants of Allah. إلا عباد الله المخلصين
[As-Saffat 37:40]
And with them will be women limiting [their] glances وعندهم قاصرات الطرف
[As-Saffat 37:48]
"keeping their eyes fixed on their husbands, not looking at anyone else because of their beauty in their estimation"
His saying
cast down their gazes قاصرات الطرف
"those who avert their gaze" is an active participle attached to its agent, meaning those who have averted their gazes to their husbands, meaning that they do not look at anyone other than their husbands. This is undoubtedly a blessing from Allah upon the husband and the perfection of his happiness, that the woman does not look at anyone other than her husband, because if she looks at someone other than her husband, Satan will cast affection for that person into her heart and hatred for her husband. So if she has averted her gaze to her husband, that is the perfection of marital happiness.
There is another aspect: that they are those who avert their gaze, meaning they avert the gazes of their husbands, meaning that the husband does not look at anyone other than them, so he has averted his gaze to her, and that is because of her perfection and beauty in his view. And in that case, "averting the gaze" has two meanings:
The first meaning is that they have averted their gazes to their husbands.
And the second meaning is that their husbands have averted their gazes to them, and both meanings are correct. He said
women limiting [their] glances, with large, [beautiful] eyes, قاصرات الطرف عين
[As-Saffat 37:48]
"large-eyed" is the plural of "large-eyed," and the meaning is that they are beautiful-eyed. The beauty of the eye occurs in two ways. He said "large-eyed, beautiful ones," meaning that the eye is wide, and with its width, it is beautiful and fine. There is no doubt that the beauty of the eye necessitates the beauty of the face and increases its beauty to its beauty, like a necklace, for example, which increases a woman's beauty to her beauty. And he said "as if they were," meaning in color, white like ostrich eggs, hidden, covered by feathers so that no dust reaches them, and their color, which is whiteness, has a yellowish tint, the most beautiful of women's colors. When he described these women as "large-eyed" and described the rest of their bodies, he said
As if they were [delicate] eggs, well-protected. كأنهن بيض مكنون
[As-Saffat 37:49]
"And 'as if' is for comparison, and 'eggs' in the noble verse is indefinite, but the author interpreted it as specific eggs, namely ostrich eggs, and ostrich eggs are white with a yellowish tint. They said this is the most beautiful of women's colors. It was also said that 'eggs' is absolute, and the meaning is that they resemble eggs in whiteness and softness, and it is not intended to be the shell eggs, the eggs that are the whiteness of the egg for its softness, whiteness, and beauty, and it is hidden by what is on the egg of a shell. And this latter is closer to the apparent wording because Allah the Exalted and Majestic made it absolute. He said
As if they were eggs كأنهن بيض
If the intended meaning were what the author said, meaning if the intended meaning were specific eggs, he would have said "as if they were the hidden eggs" so that the article 'al' would indicate a known mental concept. So the correct view is that it is general, and that they, due to their softness and whiteness, are smooth to the touch, as if they were the whiteness in the egg, which is hidden by its shell. As for the author's opinion, it is hidden by the feathers that the ostrich places on its eggs so that dust does not reach them, as the author said.
So some of them turned فاقبل بعضهم
some of the people of Paradise to some
Asking one another يتساءلون
some of the people of Paradise who are the sincere servants of Allah turned to one another, and it has been mentioned before that they were
on thrones facing each other على سرر متقابلين
but the turning here is explained by his saying
Asking one another يتساءلون
meaning that some of them began to ask others, with some of them facing others, as is the etiquette in conversation: when you address a person, you do not address him unless you are facing him.
Source alathar.net

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