98 Preface وَهُوَ الَّذي أَنشَأَكُم مِن نَفسٍ واحِدَةٍ فَمُستَقَرٌّ وَمُستَودَعٌ ۗ قَد فَصَّلنَا الآياتِ لِقَومٍ يَفقَهونَAli Quli QaraiIt is He who created you from a single soul, then there is the [enduring] abode and the place of temporary lodging.1 We have certainly elaborated the signs for a people who understand. The terms mustaqarr and mustawdaʿ (alternatively read as mustaqirr and mustawdiʿ) have been interpreted variously. According to one interpretation, they refer to the mother’s womb (raḥm) and the father’s loins (ṣulb) respectively. ʿAyyāshī cites several traditions under this verse from the Imams Muḥammad al-Bāqir, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Mūsā al-Kāẓim and ʿAlī al-Hādī, which interpret mustaqarr (or mustaqirr) as the heart of someone whose faith is constant and permanent, and mustawdaʿ as that of one whose faith is temporary, passing away at or before death. (Cf. al-Tafsīr al-Burhān and al-Tafsīr al-Ṣāfī.)