Back to search
The question

Is Allah's saying, "Those are the limits [set by] Allah, and whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, He will admit him to gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding eternally therein; and that is the great attainment," grammatically correct with the word "خالدين" [abiding eternally] after "يدخله" [He will admit him]?

Share this answer

Source: FtawySummarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
The answer

The Quran is the Book of Allah that challenged the Arabs to produce its like, and no one has ever found a mistake in it, nor will they. Anyone who claims today that there is a mistake in it is ignorant and foolish.

And Allah's saying, "abiding therein eternally," after His saying, "He will admit him," in Surah An-Nisa, verse 13, is because "man" (whoever) is singular in wording but plural in meaning. Therefore, both forms are correct. Similarly, "whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger" does not refer to a single individual, but rather it is a statement about the condition of believers in general, from the first to the last. For this reason, it is appropriate to express their news with a plural pronoun. Among the subtleties of this is that the essence of Paradise is the gathering upon blessings and their attainment by a number of the people of faith, so that affection may arise among them.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy