وَأُدْخِلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ جَنَّٰتٍ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ ۖ تَحِيَّتُهُمْ فِيهَا سَلَٰمٌ
Wa udkhila'lladhīna āmanū wa ʿamilu'ṣ-ṣāliḥāti jannātin tajrī min taḥtiha'l-anhāru khālidīna fīhā bi-idhni rabbihim · Taḥiyyatuhum fīhā salām
"Those who believed and did righteous deeds are brought into gardens beneath which rivers run, abiding there by their Lord's leave. Their greeting there is 'peace'."
The construct had occurred in the first verse of the sūra: li-tukhrija'n-nāsa… bi-idhni rabbihim. Here it comes for the second and last time.
| Verse | The leave for what |
|---|---|
| 1 | The leave to bring out — from the darkness into the light |
| 23 | The leave to abide — there |
It is a ring built between the beginning and the middle of the sūra, and it can be verified. I record this as my own reading: both the beginning of the journey and the staying at the place arrived at are given with the same note — both depend on a leave.
Taḥiyya from the root ح-ي-ي: a greeting, a welcome. The lexicographers record that the word is in origin "the wishing of life" — from the Arabs' saying to one another ḥayyāka'llāh (may God give you life).
The root س-ل-م was treated at al-Baqara 2/131 and in al-Ḥashr: to be sound, flawless, without defect. I do not repeat it here.
What must be recorded is that the block closes with this word. What has been spoken of throughout the section running from the fifteenth verse to the twenty-second: ruin, pus, death, blame, crying out. And the block closes with a sentence of a single word: salām.