Commentary
And when the news of their being was conveyed to them, and although it was a joyful matter that did not require their entering at that time, their joy increased with the permission by his saying, expressing in the plural pronoun to clarify that the intended meaning of "who" is all of the righteous: ﴿Enter it﴾ meaning: it will be said to them: enter the Paradise. And when the intended meaning was to welcome them with the pleasure of the good news, he said: ﴿With peace﴾ meaning: accompanied by safety from everything that can be feared. This resulted in his saying, bringing the joy to an indescribable limit: ﴿That﴾ meaning: the day that is truly great ﴿Day﴾ of beginning or confirmation ﴿of eternity﴾ meaning: the existence that has no end and no exhaustion of any of its pleasures at all. And for this reason, he concluded his words in response to one who might have asked: in what manner is their eternity?
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