The Surah was revealed in Mecca and emphasizes themes of mercy, creation, and the relationship between Allah and humanity, making it a significant chapter in Islamic teachings.

In the fourth century CE south Arabian pagan inscriptions started to be replaced by monotheistic expressions, using the term rahmān.

(55:5, 7, 10) The sun and the moon (travel) with precision... As for the sky, He raised it (high), and set the balance (of justice), He laid out the earth for all beings.

Chapter 55 (Surah Rahman) is composed of 26 couplets, 4 tercets, and an introductory stanza of 13 verses all ending with this refrain.

[1]: 55:70–77 [21]Muhammad Asad asserts that the "noun hur – rendered as 'companions pure' – is a plural of both ahwar (masculine) and hawra’ (feminine), each describing a person distinguished by hawar, a term that denotes 'intense whiteness of the eyeballs and lustrous black of the iris.'

Asad, along with Yusuf Ali and Marmaduke Pickthall, translates this verse as:[22][23][24] In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful.

[1]: 55:70–77  The Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur'an says that they (the Houri) are good and righteous virgins and are intended to have intercourse only with their husbands.