Tafsir for verse: 37:54
قَالَ هَلۡ أَنتُم مُّطَّلِعُونَ ٥٤ ﴿54
54He (the speaker) will say (to other people in Paradise) “Would you like to have a look (at Jahannam to find out what happened to that companion of mine)?”
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Commentary

And when this saying was a cause for the great longing of the listener for what will come after it; and the people of Paradise are in high status; and position; and sound bodies; and strong composition; and penetrating sight; whereby they look at whatever they wish from the Fire and other than it from what is below them; whenever they wish; he began his saying - indicating that his state is a sign that he is among the people of the Fire -: "He said"; that is: this speaker; for his drinking of these; those who are as some of them said in a poem:

"Perhaps a drink like a necklace they have been arranged in

In garments whose design is generosity.

So I seized the joy as they seized it

And I thought the cups among them

Were stars in the sky of joy to be seen

Each star disappearing in the full moon."

"Are you looking?"; that is: seeing my heart by leaving what you are in of complete pleasure; and you make yourselves look with me at the Fire; to make me happy with that.

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