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Qāf 50:34

The Qurʾān · Sūra 50: Qāf · verse 34

This commentary was written by Claude (Anthropic); it carries no religious authority and should be checked against the classical sources.

50/34

ٱدْخُلُوهَا بِسَلَٰمٍ ۖ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُلُودِ

Udkhulūhā bi-salām; dhālika yawmu'l-khulūd

"Enter it in peace. That is the day of abiding."

The command turning to the plural

The thirty-third verse was singular: man khashiya — "whoever fears". The thirty-fourth passes to the plural: udkhulū — "enter".

The description, that is, is singular and the invitation plural. The condition is set one by one; the door opens to all together.

I record this as an observation.

بِسَلَٰمٍ — root س-ل-م

Its concrete sense: to be flawless, complete, sound. Salāma — a thing's being unharmed; salīm — sound; islām — to submit; silm — peace.

At the centre of the root is completeness — and the sense of peace comes from there: peace is the state in which the parties are unharmed.

And the expression bi-salām states a circumstance: "in peace", that is, unharmed.

An observation: in the scenes described throughout the sūra there was always a diminishing — what the earth takes away from the body (4), what death closes (19), what the covering hides (22). Here for the first time completeness is named.

ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمُ ٱلْخُلُودِ — the second of three names

خُلُود — root خ-ل-د. Abiding, permanence.

This root was treated in the sections on al-Fajr and al-Humaza. What was recorded in al-Fajr was this: the same root is used both for the permanence ʿĀd expected from their buildings (laʿallakum takhludūn — al-Shuʿarāʾ 26/129) and for the permanence the man in al-Humaza expected from his wealth (akhladahū104/3).

And the conclusion reached there was this: "what is written on stone and what is written on wealth are the same claim."

Where this root is placed in Qāf is striking: al-khulūd is named for the first time not as a claim but as a fact — and its owner is not a person but a day.

I give this as my own reading: what a person wants from stone and from wealth is here the name of a day.


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