Yalbasoona min sundusin waistabraqin mutaqabileena
English
Ahmed Ali
Dressed in brocade and shot silk, facing one another.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another) they visit one another.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : dressed in fine silk and [heavy] silk brocade, that is to say, in fine and thick silks (sundusin wa’stabraqin, respectively), sitting face to face (mutaqābilīna is a circumstantial qualifier), that is to say, they do not look upon each other backs, since the couches revolve with them in them.
