a-s-n

Description

The Arabic root أسن (a-s-n) carries the core meaning of water that has become stagnant, altered, or corrupted through standing still for a long time, developing an unpleasant taste or smell. In the Quranic context, it appears in Surah Muhammad (47:15) describing the rivers of Paradise, where the water is explicitly stated as not being "āsin" (polluted/stagnant), emphasizing the eternal purity and freshness of paradise's provisions in contrast to earthly water that inevitably deteriorates. This distinction highlights the perfect and unchanging nature of divine blessings in the afterlife compared to the temporal and decaying nature of worldly pleasures.