IS THAT A SIMILITUDE OR NARRATIVE?

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 03)
Verses 115-119THOSE WHO WERE UNGRATEFUL WERE AFFLICTED (VERSES NO. 112 - 114)

      The parable may be taken in general, but because the verbs in the verse are all in the past tense it might be that the similitude refers to an event that has happened in the past.

      Some commentators see here a reference to the city of Mecca, as a land which cannot produce food and fruit for being mountainous all around, where its sustenance comes from other places. But in the history of Mecca such an event has not been recorded.

      Hazrat Imam Sadiq (AS) was of opinion that the immediate reference here is to an Israelite group who were living in abundance, and through their thanklessness were seized by famine and misery.

      On the other hand the history of Mankind is full of such incidents that a nation, or a group of people, or a town, lived in abundance; and when they bacame thankless to God's bounty, they tasted hunger and terror after security and abundant supplies.

 

 

 

Verses 115-119THOSE WHO WERE UNGRATEFUL WERE AFFLICTED (VERSES NO. 112 - 114)
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