Asbāṭ, from al-Suddī regarding His statement: "and an enjoyment for a time," he said: He says: A sustenance until death (1).
771 - And Yūnus narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb informed us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, from Isrāʾīl, from Ismāʿīl al-Suddī, he said: The one who heard Ibn ʿAbbās narrated to me: "and an enjoyment for a time," he said: Life (2).
And others said: He means by His statement: "and an enjoyment for a time," until the establishment of the Hour.
772 - Al-Muthannā ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, he said: Abū Ḥudhayfa narrated to us, he said: Shibl narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid: "and an enjoyment for a time," he said: Until the Day of Resurrection, until the end of the world.
And others said: "for a time," he said: Until an appointed term.
773 - I was narrated from ʿAmmār ibn al-Ḥasan, he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ: "and an enjoyment for a time," he said: Until an appointed term (3).
And enjoyment (al-matāʿ) in the speech of the Arabs is everything by which enjoyment is obtained, whether of livelihood enjoyed, or furnishings, or adornment, or pleasure, or otherwise (4). Since that is the case—and Allah, majestic is His praise, had made the life of every living being an enjoyment for him, which he enjoys during the days of his life, and made the earth an enjoyment for man during the days of his life through his settling upon it, his feeding on the sustenance and fruits Allah brought forth from it, his taking pleasure in the delights He created in it, and made it after his death a container for his corpse (5), and an abode and settling place for his body; and as the word "enjoyment" encompasses all of that—the most appropriate of interpretations
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