15:47

وَنَزَعۡنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِم مِّنۡ غِلٍّ إِخۡوَٰنًا عَلَىٰ سُرُرٖ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ

WanazaAAna ma fee sudoorihim min ghillin ikhwanan AAala sururin mutaqabileena

And We will remove whatever is in their breasts of resentment, [so they will be] brothers, on thrones facing each other.

Word by word
  1. وَنَزَعۡنَاAnd We (will) remove
  2. مَاwhat
  3. فِي(is) in
  4. صُدُورِهِمtheir breasts
  5. مِّنۡof
  6. غِلٍّrancor
  7. إِخۡوَٰنًا(they will be) brothers
  8. عَلَىٰon
  9. سُرُرٖthrones
  10. مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَfacing each other
Al-Hijr · 15:47Makkah

Old resentments are removed before you sit together.

Brothers on thrones, facing each other


What is taken out
resentmentleft over from the world
removed
brotherson thrones
facing each otherno one turns away
What happens to grudges
carried foreversome things stay
settled, then liftedcleansed before entering

Ibn Kathir cites a hadith in the Sahih: believers will be held on a bridge and judgment passed for wrongs between them, until they are cleansed and purified. Then they enter. Even the righteous arrive with some bitterness, and Allah removes it.

Your brother and you have not spoken properly since the inheritance. Family dinners, you sit at opposite ends. In Paradise you face each other. You could start that conversation here.

Some grudges are permanent; we will never be close again.

Allah will remove the bitterness between believers; I can begin letting it go now.

Try this

Send a short, warm message to one person you hold something against.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 15:45)

Truly, those who have Taqwa, will dwell in Gardens and water springs (45)(It will be said to them): "Enter it in peace and security. (46)And We shall remove any deep feeling of bitterness from their breasts. (So they will be like) brothers facing each other on thrones (47)No sense of fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they be asked to leave i (48)Declare to My servants that I am truly the Forgiving, the Most Merciful (49)And that My torment is indeed the most painful torment (50)

Description of the People of Paradise

Since Allah mentioned the condition of the people of Hell, He followed that by mentioning the people of Paradise. He tells us that they will dwell in Gardens and water springs.

ادْخُلُوهَا بِسَلَامٍ

(Enter it in peace) meaning free of all problems.

آمِنِينَ

(and security.) meaning free from all fear and concern. They will not have any fear of expulsion, nor will they fear that their condition will be disrupted or end.

وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِم مِّنْ غِلٍّ إِخْوَانًا عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُّتَقَابِلِينَ

(And We shall remove any deep feeling of bitterness from their breasts. (So they will be like) brothers facing each other on thrones.) Al-Qasim narrated that Abu Umamah said: "The people of Paradise will enter Paradise with whatever enmity is left in their hearts from this world. Then, when they come together, Allah will remove whatever hatred the world has left in their hearts." Then he recited:

وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِم مِّنْ غِلٍّ

(And We shall remove any deep feeling of bitterness from their breasts.) This is how it was narrated in this report, but Al-Qasim bin 'Abdur-Rahman is weak in his reports from Abu Umamah. However, this is in accord with the report in the Sahih where Qatadah says, "Abu Al-Mutawakkil An-Naji told us that Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri told them that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

يَخْلُصُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ مِنَ النَّارِ، فَيُحْبَسُونَ عَلَى قَنْطَرَةٍ بَيْنَ الْجَنَّةِ وَالنَّارِ. فَيُقْتَصُّ لِبَعْضِهِمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ مَظَالِمُ كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا حَتَّى إِذَا هُذِّبُوا وَنُقُّوا، أُذِنَ لَهُمْ فِي دُخُولِ الْجَنَّةِ

(The believers will be removed from the Fire, and they will be detained on a bridge between Paradise and Hell. Then judgment will be passed between them concerning any wrong they have committed in this world against one another, until they are cleansed and purified. Then permission will be given to them to enter Paradise.)"

لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا نَصَبٌ

(No sense of fatigue shall touch them) meaning no harm or hardship, as was reported in the Sahihs:

أَنَّ اللهَ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُبَشِّرَ خَدِيجَةَ بِبَيْتٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مِنْ قَصَبٍ لَا صَخَبَ فِيهِ وَلَا نَصَبَ

(Allah commanded me to tell Khadijah the good news of a jeweled palace in Paradise in which there will be no toil and no fatigue.)

وَمَا هُم مِّنْهَا بِمُخْرَجِينَ

(nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave it.) As was reported in the Hadith:

يُقَالُ: يَا أَهْلَ الْجَنَّةِ! إِنَّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَصِحُّوا فَلَا تَمْرَضُوا أَبَدًا، وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَعِيشُوا فَلَا تَمُوتُوا أَبَدًا، وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَشِبُّوا فَلَا تَهْرَمُوا أَبَدًا، وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تُقِيمُوا فَلَا تَظْعُنُوا أَبَدًا

(It will be said, O dwellers of Paradise! You will be healthy and never fall sick; you will live and never die; you will be young and never grow old; you will stay here and never leave.) Allah says:

خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا لَا يَبْغُونَ عَنْهَا حِوَلًا

(Wherein they shall dwell (forever). They will have no desire to be removed from it.)(18:108)

نَبِّئْ عِبَادِي أَنِّي أَنَا الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ - وَأَنَّ عَذَابِي هُوَ الْعَذَابُ الْأَلِيمُ

(Declare to My servants, that I am truly the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. And that My torment is indeed the most painful torment.) meaning, 'O Muhammad, tell My servants that I am the source of mercy and I am the source of punishment.' Similar Ayat to this have already been quoted above, which indicate that we must always be in a state between hope (for Allah's mercy) and fear (of His punishment).