WaAAindahum qasiratu attarfi AAeen (surah Assaaffat: 48)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(37:48) Theirs shall be wide-eyed maidens *28 with bashful, restrained glances, *29

Wa `indahum qaasiraatut tarfi `een

*29) "Restraining their looks": Restraining their looks from everyone except their husbands.
*30) The words of the Text actually mean this: "As if they were the hidden or well preserved eggs." The commentators have given different interpretations of these words, but the correct commentary is the one which Hadrat Umm Salamah has related from the Holy Prophet. She says that when she asked the meaning of this verse from the Holy Prophet, he said: "Their delicacy and elegance and tenderness will be like the thin skin which is there between the shell of the egg and its fleshy part." (Ibn Jarir).