46. For explanation, please see Surah Saffat, Note No.51.

47. Means disbelievers, as is clear from ayah No.50.

48. That is: After eating Zaqqum, they will experience as if in their stomach molten metal has been poured.

49. Zaqqum will be boiling in the stomach like scalding water.

50. This will be a command to the angels.

51. It is a taunt that he considered himself a very honoured and gracious person, although he had acted in a mean way by transgressing and disobeying Allah. He will be asked to taste the fruit of his own actions and to realise how mean and disgraceful he was.

52. To deny Hereafter, and the matter of reward and punishment is a major sin, but even having any doubts about them is also equally blameworthy, because nursing doubts leads a man to behave in a rebellious way and leads him to make the world as his goal and success in the world as the ultimate triumph. Therefore, from the viewpoint of acts and conduct there is no difference between a man who denies and a man who doubts. Therefore, both of them are equally liable to get punishment of burning in the Hell.

53. In contrast to the deniers and doubters, the mention is now being made of the God-fearing men, and it is made clear that only those persons are pious, and virtuous who believe in the Hereafter and who spend their lives in obeying Allah.

54. That is: Where there will be no kind of danger or fear, means Paradise. In the hadith it is mentioned that: “It has been decided in your favour that you will remain ever healthy and will never fall ill, you will ever remain living and will never die, you will ever remain young and will never get old, you will ever live luxuriously and will never be discomforted.” -(Muslim Kitabul Jannah)

55. The word ‘Hoor’ is used to denote a beautiful woman having fair colour, with eyes like those of a deer. Here are meant those women of Paradise who will be wed to the God-fearing men going to Paradise. Nowhere in the Quran it is mentioned that it will be a different kind of creature, therefore, its apparent sense and meaning are that the houris will be from the female species of mankind. And it would not be unlikely that those virgins who die before marriage would be made houris. Quran also states that the faithful men will get their worldly wives as their better halves in Paradise, but in addition they will also get these houris. (Allah knows better). As for the view that in Paradise a Momin will get seventy or even more hourise, there is no reality in this statement. Neither Quran states this view nor any hadith supports it. Such things are stated by the story-tellers, and the critics of Paradise make it a matter of their mockery and fun.

56. That is: After dying once in the world, they will not die again and will live for ever.

57. To be safe from the punishment of hellfire will be on account of piety and fear of God, but it will be absolutely by the grace of Allah. Without His favour, it is not possible for anyone to enter the Paradise.

58. To be safe from the punishment of Hell and to enter the Paradise is the supreme triumph. Those who consider it as the real success, they are prepared to achieve it.

59. Quran was revealed in the Arabic language, which is the language of the holy Prophet and his nation. Besides, it has been narrated in a very simple and easily understandable style, so that the people may benefit from its counsel, admonition and remembrance. The distinguishing characteristic of Quran is that it relates the intricate and difficult topics in such a simplified language that it becomes easy for a common man to understand its meaning. It deals with mysteries of the universe, the internal feelings of man, spiritual matters, and the condition of Doomsday. These matters can be easily understood if studied by persons with open mind. This benefit can also be derived by those who do not know Arabic by studying its translations in various languages, provided the translations are correctly done. This ayah explains the following ayah of Surah Qamar: “We have made Quran easy for remembrance (to seek counsel). Is there anyone who would seek counsel.” - (Surah Qamar -22) From this the meaning of ‘Zikr’ (remembrance) seeking counsel is fixed. Therefore, those scholars who have not taken this clear meaning into consideration but have translated it to mean that Quran has been made easy to facilitate memorizing are proved wrong by this ayah.

60. If even after this explanation and advice, they are waiting for ultimate judgment, then leave them to their fate, and wait. The conditions will themselves indicate what the Prophet and Quran had said has been proved to be true.