Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 52:21–28
Mount Sinai (Al-Tur)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(21) To those who have attained to faith We shall unite their offspring who have also followed them in faith, and We shall not let any of their good deeds go unrewarded; every human being is a pledge for whatever he has earned. (22) We shall provide them in abundance with such fruit and meat as they desire. (23) There, they shall pass from hand to hand a cup which does not lead to any idle talk or sin. (24) They will be waited upon by immortal youths, like pearls hidden in their shells. (25) They will converse with one another, putting questions to each other, (26) ‘Before this, when we were among our families, we were full of fear of God’s displeasure— (27) God has been gracious to us and has saved us from the torment of Hell’s intense heat— (28) before this, we used to pray to Him. Surely, He is the Beneficent, the Merciful.’
Commentary
(a) In the Hereafter, it will not happen that one man’s sins are attributed to another, and nobody will be able to enter Paradise except on the basis of his faith and his own righteous deeds. But, the occupants of Paradise will be given one special privilege: if parents are in a high stratum of Paradise and their children in some other stratum, the children will be united with their parents so that their happiness should increase.
Only one who, in spite of being among his wife and children, has always been moved by the fear of God and who linked his hopes and fears with the one and only God, will be entitled to enter the sublime world of Paradise.