THE GOOD, CLEAN TREE AND THE BAD, UNCLEAN TREE (VERSES NO. 24 - 27)

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 03)
Verses 28-30Verses 24-27

      Here is another stage to illustrate truth and falsehood, belief and disbelief, clean and unclean, through an expressive and meaningful parable:ِ

      ``.... A clean good word is like a clean good tree....''

      Some commentators understand the, ``KALAMATAN TAYYEBAT'' which we have translated to, ``good clean word'', to mean the divine word of truth, oneness, and purity which is, ``LÄ-ELAH-ELA-ALLAH=There is no God except Allah.''

      Some other know it to mean, divine word or Message of God. Some think it to mean the true and sincere believers. Jesus Christ is also called the word of God by some Muslim scholars. In this parable, a word of truth and goodness which comes from a true Divine Religion, is like a goodly tree which is fruitful, and has beauty, pleasure, and stability, and will not bend or break in the storm, because it has its root firmly fixed in the earth. And the evil tree in this similitude is one having the opposite of the above qualifications:ِ

      ``....Its root is firmly fixed in the earth, and its branches are in the sky.''

      To summarize the qualifications of the said clean good tree, it may have the following endowments:ِ

1- It is a living thing with growth and various movements.

2- It is clean in all aspects, with having beauty and giving pleasure to the observer. Its fruit and flower, its root and branch, are all clean. Even its shade is clean and attractive for birds, man, and animal.

3- It has a designed and calculated system. Its various parts like its roots, branches, blossom, stem, fruit and etc., each have a duty to perform and they know well what to do.

4- Its root is firmly fixed in the earth so that no wind can bend or break it. Its branches reach high in the sky to catch the sun's radiation as much as possible, and to get rid of the dirts that are found upon the earth.

5- Such a clean good tree is fruitful and produces its abundant fruit in time, and according to the natural laws, that is in fact God's permission.

      An so, and the same, is the word of truth having all the qualifications mentioned above and much more. So is the word of truth, be it an apostle, or a truthful believer, or even a word like (LÄ-ELAH-ELLA-ALLAH) or any other Message or commandment of our Lord.

      Also the opposite to the word of truth, and to the clean good tree, has been referred to in the above parable and verses. The resemblance of the contrast and contradiction of the two kinds of tree and words, can be followed out in all the above mentioned details.

 

 

 

 

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