Quran Universe
36:55

إِنَّ أَصۡحَٰبَ ٱلۡجَنَّةِ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ فِي شُغُلٖ فَٰكِهُونَ

Inna ashaba aljannati alyawma fee shughulin fakihoona

Indeed the companions of Paradise, that Day, will be amused in [joyful] occupation -

Word by word
  1. إِنَّIndeed
  2. أَصۡحَٰبَ(the) companions
  3. ٱلۡجَنَّةِ(of) Paradise
  4. ٱلۡيَوۡمَthis Day
  5. فِي[in]
  6. شُغُلٖwill be occupied
  7. فَٰكِهُونَ(in) amusement
Ya-Sin · 36:55Makkah

In Paradise, people are busy, and the busyness is joy.

A full life with no stress in it

Their state
people of Paradisesettled in the gardens
are
occupiedwith delights
rejoicingas Ibn Abbas said
What busy means
busy = stressedinbox, chores, worry
busy = delightedfully taken up by good

Ibn Kathir says the people of Paradise will be too occupied with their delights to think of anything else. Mujahid and Qatadah said busy with what they enjoy. Ibn Abbas said it means rejoicing.

Your days are full: school runs, shifts, messages piling up, a to-do list that never ends. Busy usually means tired. Here is a busy that only fills you up. The tiredness of now is not the last word.

Being busy always means being drained.

There is a fullness waiting that is pure joy, and today's effort walks toward it.

Try this

Pick one task you do today and do it for Allah's sake, so the busyness counts.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Verily, the dwellers of the Paradise, that Day, will be busy with joyful things (55)They and their wives will be in pleasant shade, reclining on thrones (56)They will have therein fruits and all that they ask for (57)(It will be said to them): "Salam (Peace!)" – a Word from the Lord, Most Merciful (58)

The Life of the People of Paradise

Allah tells us that on the Day of Resurrection, when the people of Paradise have reached the arena of judgement, and have settled in the gardens of Paradise, they will be too preoccupied with their own victory and new life of eternal delights to worry about anyone else. Al-Hasan Al-Basri and Isma'il bin Abi Khalid said, "They will be too busy to think about the torment which the people of Hell are suffering. Mujahid said:

فِي شُغُلٍ فَاكِهُونَ

(will be busy with joyful things.) "With the delights which they are enjoying." This was also the view of Qatadah. Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "This means that they will be rejoicing."

هُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُهُمْ 

(They and their wives) Mujahid said, "Their spouses,

فِي ظِلَالٍ

(will be in pleasant shade,) means, in the shade of trees."

عَلَى الْأَرَائِكِ مُتَّكِئُونَ 

(reclining on thrones.) Ibn 'Abbas, Mujahid, 'Ikrimah, Muhammad bin Ka'b, Al-Hasan, Qatadah, As-Suddi and Khusayf said:

الْأَرَائِكِ

(throne) means beds beneath canopies.

لَهُمْ فِيهَا فَاكِهَةٌ

(They will have therein fruits) means, of all kinds.

وَلَهُمْ مَا يَدَّعُونَ

(and all that they ask for.) means, whatever they ask for, they will find it, all kinds and types.

سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِنْ رَبٍّ رَحِيمٍ

("Salam (Peace!)" – a Word from the Lord (Allah), Most Merciful.) Ibn Jurayj said, "Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, concerning this Ayah, Allah Himself, Who is the Peace (As-Salam) will grant peace to the people of Paradise. This view of Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, is like the Ayah:

تَحِيَّتُهُمْ يَوْمَ يَلْقَوْنَهُ سَلَامٌ ۚ 

(Their greeting on the Day they shall meet Him will be "Salam")(33:44).