Commentary
And when he mentioned the one who circumambulates it, because it is the intended goal, he described the circumambulator for what is in his circumambulation of the witnessed greatness, as a depiction of what they are in of the kingdom after they were saved from destruction: "And they will circulate among them" meaning with drinks and other pleasures and delights. "Youth" meaning young boys who are at the age of one who has not yet reached maturity. "The least of the people of Paradise is one who is served by a thousand boys." "Eternal" meaning that it has been decreed by the One whose decree is not rejected that they will be like that [always] without any decrease or elevation from that limit, while they are adorned with eternity, which is the necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and beautiful garments. "When you see them" [Ta-Ha: 92] meaning, O highest of creation, blessings and peace be upon him, and you are the most certain of people in sight, or O you who sees, whoever you see them in any state, you thought them from their whiteness and the clarity of their colors and the shining of their lights and the reflection of some of them to others and their dispersing in the gatherings, going and returning, "like scattered pearls" and that is a metaphor for their abundance and their spread in service and their nobility and beauty; and about [some of them] that the pearls of Paradise are of the utmost size and greatness and diversity of shapes, as if he expressed by the calculation a reference to the fact that this is an absolute allowance without preference. Some of the commentators said: They are boys created by Allah to serve the believers. And some of them said: They are the children of the polytheists because they died upon the fitrah. And Ibn Burjan said: [And] I see, and Allah knows best, [that they are] those whom Allah, glorified and exalted is He, knows their faith from the children of the disbelievers, they will be servants to the people of Paradise as they were to them in the world as captives and servants. As for the children of the believers, they will join their fathers in age, kingdom, and joy for them. This is supported by his saying, blessings and peace be upon him, regarding his son Ibrahim, may peace and blessings be upon him, "Indeed, he has a wet nurse who will complete his nursing in Paradise," for it indicates the reception of his condition there and his movement in states like in this world, and there is no evidence for his specificity in that.
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