Commentary
And when what he mentioned cannot be completed except with beautiful women, he said, indicating the abundance after the context of favoring the collective, which is preferable to the dual, indicating that in every garden there is a group of women, due to the great pleasure and extreme companionship they provide: "In them" meaning: the gardens, which it has been known from what has passed that for every individual among those fearing it, there are two gardens. And when the context of favoring is defining that the gathering of the few is intended to mean the many, along with what has been mentioned of its embellishments in Surah Sad, he expressed it by saying: "Restrained in gaze" meaning: women who are veiled, they are in the obligation of covering in such a way that mentioning them without description or explicitness is withheld, they have restrained their gaze and their aspirations to their husbands, and they possess a beauty that has restrained their husbands from turning to others due to the dullness of the gaze and its enchantment and its strong grip on the hearts, as a reward for them for restraining their aspirations in this world to their Lord.
And when the specification with something, especially a woman, is among the greatest pleasures, he said: "They have not been touched by man" meaning: they have not been engaged with or dominated by anyone in this creation in which they were created, a kind of authority, whether from humans or jinn or others. It is said: a woman has menstruated like a man has struck or rejoiced: she has had her period, and a man has touched her: he has deflowered her, and also he has had intercourse with her, and the camel you have tied. So it is as if it was said: they are virgins who have not been mixed with the place of menstruation among them. "Humans" and when the intention was to generalize the time, he omitted the preposition and said: "Before them" meaning: those reclining, "nor a jinn" and this has gathered all who can engage from the apparent and the hidden, and in it is evidence that the jinn can approach the human as has been transmitted from Al-Zajjaj.
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