Yūnus 10:25 commentary

10/25

وَٱللَّهُ يَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ دَارِ ٱلسَّلَٰمِ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ

"God calls to the abode of peace, and He guides whom He wills to a straight path."

دَارِ ٱلسَّلَٰم — the construct occurs in two places in the Qurʾān: here and al-Anʿām 6/127.

The root س-ل-م: to be whole, sound, without defect; and from this peace, safety, submission. The core of the root is "a thing's keeping its wholeness".

And the construct sets up a link within the sūra: in the tenth verse the greeting of those in the Garden was salām. The name of the abode and the word spoken inside it, that is, are from the same root.

Verse	Expression
10	Wa taḥiyyatuhum fīhā salām
25	Yadʿū ilā dāri's-salām

I record this as my own reading, and its ground is the shared root.

And the word order of the verse must be recorded: there is a difference of scope between the two verbs.

Verb	To whom
Yadʿū — He calls	Not stated — general
Yahdī — He guides	Man yashāʾ — whom He wills

The call is unqualified, the guiding qualified. I record this as an observation about the word order and do not enter into a preference; what the verse does is to give the two verbs with different scopes. And the ninety-ninth verse will complete this distinction within the sūra: to will and to compel are two different things.