The self at peace (al-nafs al-mutma'inna) returns to its Lord well-pleased
Traditionally read as God's own words addressing the soul at death, these verses describe a self so thoroughly realigned that obeying God no longer feels like restraint but like the self's own settled preference.
These verses close Surah al-Fajr and are traditionally read as God's address to the soul at the moment of death or on the Day of Judgment, calling it back "well-pleased and pleasing," content with God's decree and, in turn, an object of God's own pleasure. As the final rung of the classical nafs ladder, al-nafs al-mutma'inna names a self no longer at war with itself: the desires that once needed suppressing at the ammara stage or scolding at the lawwama stage have been so thoroughly reoriented that obedience feels like the self's own preference rather than an imposed restraint. Sufi commentators treat this verse as the promised destination of the whole inner struggle, tracing a path from ammara through lawwama to mutma'inna, though they debate whether it is reached only after death or can be tasted, in glimpses, within this life.
O soul at peace, return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him].
Qur'an