10 Preface تَبارَكَ الَّذي إِن شاءَ جَعَلَ لَكَ خَيرًا مِن ذٰلِكَ جَنّاتٍ تَجري مِن تَحتِهَا الأَنهارُ وَيَجعَل لَكَ قُصورًاYusuf AliBlessed is He Who,1 if that were His will, could give thee better (things) than those,- Gardens beneath which2 rivers flow; and He could give thee palaces (secure to dwell in).Cf. above, 25:1 The reminiscent phrase shows that the first argument, about the Revelation and Prophethood, is completed, and we now pass on to the contrast, the fate of the rejecters of both.This phrase is usually symbolical of the Bliss in the Hereafter. If it were God’s Plan, He could give his Messengers complete felicity and power in this life also. Instead of being persecuted, mocked, driven out of their homes, and having to exert their utmost powers of body, mind, and character to plant the flag of Truth in an unbelieving world, they could have lived in ease and security. But that would not have given the real lessons they came to teach struggling humanity by their example.