Verses of Bliss in Surat Al-Waqi’ah: An Analytical Interpretive Study

Abstract

The Holy Quran has elaborated on Paradise, its levels, descriptions, types of bliss, and its people in many places and in various styles, which has baffled the minds, astonished the intellects, and filled the hearts of the believers with faith in its realistic and honest discourse that touched the minds and hearts. This research comes to study the verses of bliss in Surat Al-Waqi’ah through an interpretive and analytical study; reminding Muslims of what Allah Almighty has prepared for them of eternal bliss in Paradise, urging and encouraging them to do good deeds, and defending the Holy Quran by explaining some verses of bliss, to confirm that it is a real, tangible bliss, and to refute the claims and falsehoods of secularists and modernists who deny the bliss of Paradise, and claim that it is merely imaginations and fantasies. The research was based on two methods: analytical and deductive, where the verses of bliss in Surat Al-Waqi’ah (7-40) were studied analytically in a way that fulfills the purpose and clarifies the intended meaning, and deduces what is possible from their meanings and guidance. Among its most important results: The main purpose of this noble Surah is manifested in the call to faith in Allah Almighty, and the urging to prepare for the Day of Resurrection, and what it contains of eternal bliss for the believers, and the painful torment for the deniers and misguided. And that entering Paradise is only by the mercy of Allah Almighty, and that its bliss is purely a favor from Him, the Almighty; because nothing is obligatory on Allah Almighty. And that the Holy Qur’an’s talk about Paradise and its bliss is a realistic, miraculous talk, bringing the types of this bliss closer to the minds, and addressing them with what they know of its similarities in this world, and endearing it to them with its miraculous encouragement, so it addressed the minds and souls at the same time. And that the bliss of Paradise is a tangible, realistic bliss, and not imaginary or mythical stories, as claimed by secularists and modernists, and those who follow them, and this has been shown through the analysis of its words, and the clarification of their meanings and contexts.