Overall meaning : Allah will admit those who believe and do good deeds into gardens under whose trees rivers flow. The unbelievers indulge themselves in the pleasures of the worldly life and eat as the beasts eat, but the Fire will be their final abode.
Many a city, whose people were mightier than the people of Makkah who have driven you, Muhammad, out of it, have We utterly destroyed, and they had no helper to protect them against Our punishment!
Are those who have sure knowledge and clear proof of the truth—following the plain guidance of their Lord—like those whose evil deeds Satan has made seem fair to them, and thus follow their whims and desires without any proof at all?!
Such is the description of Paradise Allah has promised the righteous who do what He commands and avoid what He forbids: In it there are rivers of incorruptible water whose smell, taste and colour are for ever pure; rivers of milk whose taste will never change; rivers of wine, delightful to those who drink it; and rivers of pure and clear honey. In it they have fruit of every kind and forgiveness from their Lord. Can those in such bliss in Paradise be compared to those who will abide in Hell for ever, and be made to drink scalding water that will tear their bowels apart?!