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[they shall enter] Gardens of Eden, as [a place of] residence (jannāti 'Adnin, substitutes for al-janna, 'Paradise') which the Compassionate One has promised to His servants [a promise] in the Unseen (bi'l-ghaybi, a circumstantial qualifier, in other words [a promise made while] they do not see it). Indeed His promise, that is to say, that which He promises, is ever fulfilled, meaning that it always arrives (the original [form of ma'tiyyan] is ma'tūyun); or [what is meant by] His promise here is Paradise, to which those deserving of it shall arrive.