Surah Yaseen
Chapter 36 · Verse 27 · Revealed in Makkah
“Of how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored."”
Translation: Saheeh International
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Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Reflection — Ibn Kathir
ادْخُلِ الْجَنَّةَ
("Enter Paradise.") so he entered it with all its bountiful provision, when Allah had taken away from him all the sickness, grief and exhaustion of this world. Mujahid said, "It was said to Habib An-Najjar, `Enter Paradise.' This was his right, for he had been killed. When he saw the reward,
قَالَ يلَيْتَ قَوْمِى يَعْلَمُونَ
Reflection — Maarif ul Quran
Since this man of piety laid down his life valiantly in the way of Allah, he was blessed with honor as said in Verses 26 and 27: قَالَ يَا لَيْتَ قَوْمِي يَعْلَمُونَ بِمَا غَفَرَ لِي رَبِّي وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُكْرَمِينَ ("He said, 'Would that my people knew how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored ones!" ). He was asked to enter Paradise. When he saw the supreme rewards and blessings of Paradise, he remembered his people and wished that if his people could know how generously he was rewarded and what honors were bestowed on him in return for believing in the messengers, perhaps, they too would have believed. This is the wish expressed in this verse.
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