سورة الطُّور
Surah Al-Tûr 52:24
The Mount · Verse 24 of 49
وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ غِلْمَانٌ لَهُمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لُؤْلُؤٌ مَكْنُونٌ
Abdul Mannan Omar
Their own young sons as pure as though they were (virgin) pearls embedded in their shells, shall go round them.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants (handsome) as Pearls well-guarded.
Ahmed Ali
And young attendants like pearls within their shells, will go round.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
And there will go round them boy-servants attending upon them, (so pure) as hidden pearls.
Daryabadi
And there will go round on them youths appointed to attend them as though they were pearls hidden.
Faridul Haque
And their boy servants shall go around them, as if they were pearls, safely hidden.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And round them go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls.
Maulvi Sher Ali
And there will wait upon them youths of their own, pure as though they were pearls well preserved.
Muhammad Asad
And they will be waited upon by [immortal] youths, [as if they were children] of their own, [as pure] as if they were pearls hidden in their shells.
Muhammad Musin Khan
And there will go round boy-servants of theirs, to serve them as if they were preserved pearls.
Muhammad Pickthall
And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they were hidden pearls.
Muhammad Sarwar
They will be served by youths who will be as beautiful as pearls.
Muhammed ali Shakir
And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls.
Rashad Khalifa
Serving them will be servants like protected pearls.
Shabbir Ahmed
And their children like pearls, playful, happy around them.
Commentary 52:24Ghilmânغِلْمَانٌ are their sons in the sense of aulâd-u-humاولادھم, as clarified by Shaukanî, and Baidzawî. It is wrong to translate the word as slaves.…
وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ غِلْمَانٌ لَّهُمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لُؤْلُؤٌ مَّكْنُونٌ
52:24Ghilmânغِلْمَانٌ are their sons in the sense of aulâd-u-humاولادھم, as clarified by Shaukanî, and Baidzawî. It is wrong to translate the word as slaves. Abraham did not receive the glad tidings of a slave (ghulâmغلام ) but a son (37:101) and Zachariah did not pray for a slave in 19:20. The verse is a continuation of what has been said in the verse 52:21, “We shall unite with those who believe, their children who follow them in Faith”. The subject matter is also mentioned in 76:19 “Their sons of perpetual bloom shall go around them” and in verse 56:17 the word wildân ولدان (- the sons) is used instead of ghilmânغِلْمَانٌ to express the same meaning. In verse 56:17 the word mukhallidمخلٌد that also means one who is grey-haired is used to describe the sons (wildânولدان)