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1224 The immediate occasion was the repeated treachery of the Banu Quraiza after their treaties with the Muslims. But the
general lesson remains, as noted in the two following verses. Treachery in war is doubly wrong, for it endangers so
many lives. Such treachery should be punished in such a way that it gets no chance again. Not only the actual
perpetrators but those who follow their standard should be rendered powerless. And the broken treaty should be
denounced so that the innocent party can at least fight on equal terms. From actual physical warfare we can carry the
same lesson to spiritual warfare. A truce or understanding is possible with those who respect definite principles, not
with those who have no principles and are merely out for oppression and wickedness. A) The purpose of the verse is
to urge Muslims to act against their enemies described above with a severity and resoluteness which would serve as
a deterrent to other enemies of Islam who might be inclined to follow their example and act treacherously towards
Muslims. (8.56)
TREES:-
7:19 - O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the garden and enjoy (its good things) as ye wish: but
approach not this tree or ye run into harm and transgression." 10031004
1003 Now the story turns to man. He was placed in the Garden of comfort and bliss, but it was Allah's Plan to give him a
limited faculty of choice. All that he was forbidden to do was to approach the Tree, but he succumbed to Satan's
suggestions. (7.19)
1004 Enjoy: literally, "eat." Cf. the meaning of ta'ama in vi, 14, n. 847 and akala in v. 66, n. 776. (7.19)
7:20 - Then began satan to whisper suggestions to them bringing openly before their minds all their
shame that was hidden from them (before): he said "Your Lord only forbade you this tree lest
ye should become angels or such beings as live for ever." 10051006
1005 The transition from the name "Iblis" to the name "Satan" is similar to that in ii. 36, where it is explained in n. 52. (7.20)
1006 Our first parents as created by Allah (and this applies to all of us) were innocent in matters material as well as
spiritual. They knew no evil. But the faculty of choice, which was given to them and which raised them above the
angels, also implied that they had the capacity of evil, which by the training of their own will, they were to reject. They
were warned of the danger. When they fell, they realised the evil. They were (and we are) still given the chance, in
this life on a lower plane, to make good and recover the lost status of innocence and bliss. (7.20)
27:60 - Or who has created the heaven and the earth and who sends you down rain from the sky?
Yea with it We cause to grow well-planted orchards full of beauty and delight: it is not in your
power to cause the growth of the trees in them. (Can there be another) god besides Allah?
Nay they are a people who swerve from justice. 32933294
3293 The order, beauty, and grandeur of the Universe are appealed to. They show unity of design and purpose. How can
unjust, ignorant, foolish, heedless, false men think of a multiplicity of gods, or of any god, besides the One True God?
(27.60)
3294 To make a single seed germinate and grow into a tree is beyond man's power. When it comes to a great well-laid-out
garden of beauty and delight, no one would think it grew up of itself without a Gardener's consummate art. And the
orchard is more than the trees in it: there is design and beauty in their arrangement: proper spaces have to be left
between them for the growth of their roots, for the aeration of the soil beneath them, and for the penetration of air and
sunlight between their branches. How can any one then think of the wonderful Universe as a whole, without thinking of
the far higher Unity of Design, the evidence of the One True Allah? (27.60)
31:27 - And if all the trees on earth were pens and the Ocean (were ink) with seven Oceans behind
it to add to its (supply) yet would not the Words of Allah be exhausted (in the writing): for Allah
is Exalted in power Full of Wisdom. 3616
3616 "Words of Allah": his wonderful Signs and Commandments are infinite and cannot be expressed if all the trees were
made into pens, and all the wide Ocean, multiplied seven times, were made into ink. Any Book of His Revelation
would deal with matters which man can understand and use in his life: there are things that man can never fathom.
Nor would any praise that we could write with infinite resources be adequate to describe His power, glory, and
wisdom. (31.27)
56:72 - Is it ye who grow the tree which feeds the fire or do We grow it? 5254
5254 The relation of Fire to Trees is intimate. In nearly all the fire that we burn, the fuel is derived from the wood of trees.
Even mineral coal is nothing but the wood of prehistoric forests petrified under the earth through geological ages. Fire
produced out of green trees is referred to in xxxvi. 80; and n. 4026 there gives instances. (56.72)
56:29 - Among Talh trees with flowers (or fruits) piled one above another 5238
5238 Talh: some understand by this the plantain or banana tree, of which the fruit is borne in bunches, one tier above
another; but the banana tree does not grow in Arabia and its ordinary Arabic name is Mauz; perhaps it is better to
understand a special kind of Acacia tree, which flowers profusely, the flowers appearing in tiers one above another.
(56.29)
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