مَثَلُهُمۡ كَمَثَلِ ٱلَّذِي ٱسۡتَوۡقَدَ نَارٗا فَلَمَّآ أَضَآءَتۡ مَا حَوۡلَهُۥ ذَهَبَ ٱللَّهُ بِنُورِهِمۡ وَتَرَكَهُمۡ فِي ظُلُمَٰتٖ لَّا يُبۡصِرُونَ (17)
Their likeness is like the one who stole a fire, but when it illuminated what was around him,Allah has taken away their light and left them in darkness that they do not see (17)
He was in a great darkness, and he was in great need of the fire, so he kindled it from someone else, and it was not with him, rather it was outside him, so when the fire lit up what was around him, and look at the place in which he is, and the fears and security therein, He benefited from that fire, and his eyes were enjoy by it, And he thought that he was capable of it, so while he is like that, when God took away his light, the light removed from him, and pleasure went with it, and he remained in the great darkness and the burning fire, so what was in it of the radiance was gone, and what remained in it of burning.
A look at the verse
Metaphors are generally defined as forms of speech in which one thing is described from the perspective of another that is significantly different, metaphor is classified as a type of figurative language (along with idioms, irony, metonymy, and many other forms) until recently, metaphors and other forms of speech were assumed to be relatively unimportant aspects of communication. However, it is now recognized that metaphor is pervasive in everyday language, an increasing number of researchers and theorists now view metaphor as an aspect of thought rather than language.In fact, it has been shown that metaphor is involved in:
The acquisition of knowledge
conceptual change
Abstract thinking
social persuasion
and even the development of empathy between individuals and groups
It is not surprising, then, that this metaphor now occupies a central place in many areas of research on cognition and communication.
The witness from the foregoing
The Qur’an is full of examples, metaphors, and this verse is the first example in the Book of God in the Qur’an of Medina (for believers specifically), and we take from that the following:
1- The eloquence of the Qur’anic expression due to its use of all the vocabulary of the language (components, not words) to communicate the meaning.
2 - Divine instruction for teachers and educators to use examples and stories of meaning and metaphors in the educational process
3 - As we have seen, it is a type of social persuasion, so it is an important type in the process of educating the Muslim individual on the Holy Quran and God is superior and knows best
صُمُّۢ بُكۡمٌ عُمۡيٞ فَهُمۡ لَا يَرۡجِعُونَ (18)
Deaf, dumb, blind, for they will not turn back (18)
Deaf"
That is: about hearing the good
" with you"
That is: to pronounce it
"blind"
That is, about seeing the truth
they will not return"
Because they left the truth after they knew it, so they do not return to it, unlike those who left the truth out of ignorance and misguidance, because it does not make sense, and it is closer to them returning.
Saib: It is the rain that pours, that is: it falls in abundance.
"there is darkness"
The darkness of the night, the darkness of the clouds, and the darkness of the rain.
thunder
It is: the sound heard from the clouds.
"lightning"
It is the bright light visible from the clouds
On the authority of Ibn Masoud, and on the authority of some of the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
“or heavy rain from the sky in which there is darkness, thunder and lightning” to “God has power over all things” Two men from the hypocrites from the people of Madinah were fleeing from the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, to the polytheists, so this rain, which God mentioned, struck them with intense thunder, thunderbolts and lightning, so whenever the thunderbolts lit up for them, they put their fingers in their ears out of fear, that the thunderbolts enter their ears and kill them, and if the lightning flashes they walk in its light, and if it did not shine, they did not see, and they stood in their place, not walking, so they began to say: If only we had come in the morning, so we would come to Muhammad and put our hands in his hand, so in the morning, they came to him, so they embraced Islam and put their hands in his hand, and their Islam became good, so God set the matter of these two outgoing hypocrites as an example for the hypocrites who were in Medina.
أَوۡ كَصَيِّبٖ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فِيهِ ظُلُمَٰتٞ وَرَعۡدٞ وَبَرۡقٞ يَجۡعَلُونَ أَصَٰبِعَهُمۡ فِيٓ ءَاذَانِهِم مِّنَ ٱلصَّوَٰعِقِ حَذَرَ ٱلۡمَوۡتِۚ وَٱللَّهُ مُحِيطُۢ بِٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ (19)
Or like a rainstorm from the sky, in which there is darkness, thunder, and lightning, they put their fingers in their ears from the thunderbolts, fear of the dead, and God encompasses the unbelievers (19)
It is like what the hypocrites were pleased with when they said to the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and to the believers with their tongues: We believe in God and in the Last Day and in Muhammad and what he brought, until they became in this world the rulings of the believers, and they - while showing with their tongues what they show - about God and His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, and what he brought from God and the Last Day, are liars, contrary to what they show with tongues in their hearts believing, despite their blindness, they are ignorant of the misguidance they are upon, not knowing which of the two matters that He has legislated for them [concerning] guidance, or the disbelief they were upon before God sent Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, with what He sent him with to them, or in what Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, brought them from their Lord? They are from God's threat to them on the tongue of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, despite their apprehension of this, they are complaining, in their hearts is a disease, so God made them sick.
A look at the verse
God - Glory be to Him - mentioned the thunderbolts and linked them to death, and the fear of the infidels specifically from those thunderbolts - perhaps because they are more knowledgeable about modern studies and that the thunderbolts Indeed, it can lead to death, even if in rare cases, which is proven by the reality of some people who died by lightning from the sky.
يَكَادُ ٱلۡبَرۡقُ يَخۡطَفُ أَبۡصَٰرَهُمۡۖ كُلَّمَآ أَضَآءَ لَهُم مَّشَوۡاْ فِيهِ وَإِذَآ أَظۡلَمَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ قَامُواْۚ وَلَوۡ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَذَهَبَ بِسَمۡعِهِمۡ وَأَبۡصَٰرِهِمۡۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيۡءٖ قَدِيرٞ (20)
The lightning almost snatches away their eyes every time it shines for them, they walk in and when it was darkened against them, they stood up, and if God had willed, He would have taken away their hearing and their sight. Indeed, God is powerful over all things (20)
This is the condition of the hypocrites, when they hear the Qur’an and its commands and prohibitions, and its promises and threats, they put their fingers in their ears, and turn away from its commands and prohibitions, and its promises and threats
On the authority of Ibn Abbas
“And had God willed, He would have taken away their hearing and their sight.” They would not have abandoned the truth after knowing it.
The general characteristics of the hypocrites
Allah says
(إِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ فِي الدَّرْكِ الْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ النَّارِ وَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُمْ نَصِيرًا) [النساء: 145]
(Indeed, the hypocrites are in the lowest depths of the Fire, and you will not find a helper for them) [An-Nisa: 145]
1 - ( Deception )
Allah says
(إِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ يُخَادِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَهُوَ خَادِعُهُمْ ... النساء )
(Indeed, the hypocrites deceive God, and He deceive them...women)
2- (Showing off with good deeds)
( ... وإذا قَامُوا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ قَامُوا كُسَالَى يُرَاءُونَ النَّاسَ...) النساء
(...and when they stand up for prayer, they stand up lazily to show people...) Women
3 - (The little remembrance of Allah - the Almighty-)
... وَلَا يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا) [النساء: 142].
... And they do not remember Allah except a little) [An-Nisa: 142].
4 - the fluctuation in faith in God Almighty -
Allah says
(مُذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ لَا إِلَى هَؤُلَاءِ وَلَا إِلَى هَؤُلَاءِ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُ سَبِيلًا) [النساء: 143].
(wavering between that neither to these nor to those, and whomever Allah leads astray, you will never find a way for him) [An-Nisa: 143].
Allah says
{فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَهُمُ اللّهُ مَرَضاً وَلَهُم عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ} ا
{In their hearts is a disease, so God made them more sick, and they will have a painful chastisement because they used to lie}
5- Swearing without necessity
Allah says
(اتَّخَذُوا أَيْمَانَهُمْ جُنَّةً فَصَدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُهِينٌ) [المجادلة: 16].
(They took their oaths as a shield, so they barred from the path of God, for them is a humiliating punishment) [Al-Mujadalah: 16].
Allah says
{يَوْمَ يَبْعَثُهُمُ اللَّهُ جَمِيعًا فَيَحْلِفُونَ لَهُ كَمَا يَحْلِفُونَ لَكُمْ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْكَاذِبُونَ} (18) سورة المجادلة.
{On the Day when God will send them all together, they will swear to Him as they swear to you, and they think that they are upon something, but they are the liars} (18) Surah Al-Mujadalah.
6- The misguidance after guidance
Allah says
(ذلك بأنهم آمنوا ثم كفروا فطُبعَ على قلوبهم فهم لا يفقهون) [المنافقون: 3]
(That is because they believed, then disbelieved, so their hearts are sealed, so they do not understand) [Al-Munafiqun: 3]
7- (Good forms with inner panic
Allah says
وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ تُعْجِبُكَ أَجْسَامُهُمْ وَإِنْ يَقُولُوا تَسْمَعْ لِقَوْلِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ خُشُبٌ مُسَنَّدَةٌ يَحْسَبُونَ كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ هُمُ الْعَدُوُّ فَاحْذَرْهُمْ قَاتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ أَنَّى يُؤْفَكُونَ) [المنافقون: 4]
And if you see them, their bodies admire you, and if they say, you listen to what they say, as if they were wood supported, they consider every shout against them that they are the enemy, so beware of them, God fight them where they turn away from honest and truth.
8 - Feeling heartbreak, worry, and distress when the believers are afflicted with joy or victory from God
- Glory be to Him - So you see the hypocrites awaiting the fall of the believers.
9 - Love for immorality to appear among believers
Allah says
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ [النور:19].
Those who love that indecency spread among those who believe, for them is a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter [An-Nur: 19].
10, 11, 12, 13 (Betrayal of trust - lying in conversation - treachery after covenant - intense antagonism)
(Four traits, whoever possesses them is a pure hypocrite, and whoever possesses one of them There was a trait of hypocrisy in him until he left it: if he is trusted he betrays, if he speaks he lies, if he makes a promise he betrays, and if he quarrels he intense) [Sahih Hadith].
14- Referring to other than God’s law
Allah says
أَلَم تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ يَزعُمُونَ أَنَّهُم آمَنُوا بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيكَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ مِن قَبلِكَ يُرِيدُونَ أَن يَتَحَاكَمُوا إِلَى الطَّاغُوتِ وَقَد أُمِرُوا أَن يَكفُرُوا بِهِ وَيُرِيدُ الشَّيطَانُ أَن يُضِلَّهُم ضَلالاً بَعِيداً (60)
Have you not seen those who claim that they believe in what was revealed to you and what was revealed before you, they want to judge the juggernaut, and they have been commanded to disbelieve in it, and Satan wants, to mislead them far astray (60)
15, 16- Lack of spending - enjoining evil
Allah says
المُنَافِقُونَ وَالمُنَافِقَاتُ بَعضُهُم مِن بَعضٍ, يَأمُرُونَ بِالمُنكَرِ وَيَنهَونَ عَن المَعرُوفِ وَيَقبِضُونَ أَيدِيَهُم نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَنَسِيَهُم إِنَّ المُنَافِقِينَ هُم الفَاسِقُونَ (67)
The hypocritical men and the hypocritical women are one from the other, they enjoin evil and forbid good, and holding back their hands, they forgot God, so He made them forget that the hypocrites are the disobedient (67)
17 - Questioning God's promises to believers in times of distress
Allah says
((There the believers were tested and shaken with a severe earthquake (11) and when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease said, Allah and His Messenger promised us nothing but delusion (12))) [Al-Ahzab]
18 - Standing by the infidels in their war against the believers
Allah says
((Have you not seen what the hypocrites say to their disbelieving brothers from among the People of the Book, If you go out, we will go out with you, and we will never obey any of you and if you are killed, we will certainly help you, and God bears witness that they are liars.” [Al-Hashr (11)]
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ٱعۡبُدُواْ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُمۡ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِكُمۡ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَتَّقُونَ (21)
O people, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you that you may become pious (21)
Abu Jaafar said
So He commanded the two parties - of which God told about one of them that it is equal to them whether they were warned or were not warned that they do not believe (113), because it was imprinted on their hearts and on their hearing (114) and about the other, that he deceives God and those who believe in what he says with his tongue: We believe in God and the Last Day, despite his introspection to the contrary, and his heart’s disease, and his doubts about the truth of what he reveals of that;
And He is able to harm you and benefit you - more worthy of obedience than he who has no power over you to benefit or harm, that you may fear: you obey.
ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ فِرَٰشٗا وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بِنَآءٗ وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءٗ فَأَخۡرَجَ بِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ رِزۡقٗا لَّكُمۡۖ فَلَا تَجۡعَلُواْ لِلَّهِ أَندَادٗا وَأَنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ (22)
He who made for you the earth as a bed and the sky a building, and He sent down water from the sky and brought forth with it fruits as a provision for you, So do not set up equals to God while you know (22)
On the authority of Ibn Masoud, and on the authority of some of the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
“Who made the earth a bed for you.” It is a bed on which one walks, and it is the cradle and the resting place
Why do we worship God Almighty?
He is your Lord, who raised you with all kinds of blessings, so He created you after non-existence, and He created those before you, and bestowed upon you apparent and hidden blessings, so He made the earth a bed for you to settle on, and benefit from buildings, cultivation, plowing, walking from place to place, and other aspects of benefiting from it.
A look at the verse
Earth's crust is the very thin layer of rock that makes up our planet's hard outer shell. In relative terms, its thickness is similar to the thickness of the peel of an apple. They account for less than half of 1% of the planet's total mass but play a vital role in most of Earth's natural cycles. The crust can be more than 80 kilometers thick in some areas and less than 1 kilometer in others. Beneath it is a layer of silicate rock about 2,700 kilometers thick. The mantle represents the bulk of the Earth, and the crust is made up of many different types of rock that fall into three main categories: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. However, most of these rocks originated from either granite or basalt. The lower mantle is made of aquamarine. Bridgmanite, the most common mineral on Earth, is found in the deep mantle.
The witness
The thickness of the Earth's crust, with its great importance to the environment and life on the planet, reaches a thickness in some places of no more than 1% of the total mass of the planet, the scientists liken it to the skin of an apple, as well as the mattress that is placed on the bed, how thick is it, no matter how thick it is? It has many benefits for the sleeping person, as it is an eloquent simile like the eloquence of the Qur’an, and God is higher and know the best.
In one of the research conducted by the European Southern Observatory, a group of scientists stated that they prefer to use the words (building blocks of galaxies) rather than the word (galaxies). And they assert that the universe is adorned with these buildings like pearls that are lined up in a thread or a necklace!! In this research, “The first galaxies, or rather the building blocks of galaxies, will form within the filaments of the web. When they begin to emit light, they will be seen to mark the otherwise invisible threads, like beads on a string.”
The sky is a building
After researching many scientific articles and researches about the universe and its structure, I found that this is not the only world that believes in this fact, but most scientists confirm the reality of the cosmic structure. You will rarely find an article or paper in the field of astronomy that does not contain the term "construction of the universe". This indicates that the scholars agree on this scientific fact, i.e. the reality of building. I went directly to the Book of Facts, i.e. the Qur’an, and searched for the word (building) and what are the connotations of this word.
the witness from this scientific part of the verse
As you have seen precisely that the sky is (built) as the astronomers say, so how does God Almighty determine the correct scientific pronunciation 1444 years ago with such accuracy word - Glory be to Him -?
وَإِن كُنتُمۡ فِي رَيۡبٖ مِّمَّا نَزَّلۡنَا عَلَىٰ عَبۡدِنَا فَأۡتُواْ بِسُورَةٖ مِّن مِّثۡلِهِۦ وَٱدۡعُواْ شُهَدَآءَكُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ (23)
And if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed to Our servants, then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call upon your witnesses besides Allah, if you are truthful (23)
And if you - O community of opponents of the Messenger, rejecting his call, claiming his lies - are in doubt and suspicion
If you come with a surah like it
It is as you claimed, and if you did not come up with a surah like it and were extremely incapacitated, then this is a great sign, and clear evidence of its sincerity and the truth of what it came with, so it is obligatory for you to follow it, and guard against the fire that has reached great heat and intensity, if its fuel is people and stones, not like the fire of this world, which is kindled with wood, and this described fire is prepared and prepared for the disbelievers in God and His Messengers.
So beware of disbelieving in His Messenger, after it became clear to you that he is the Messenger of God.
They call this verse and the like the verse of challenge, which is the inability of people to come up with such a Qur’an and oppose it in a way.
فَإِن لَّمۡ تَفۡعَلُواْ وَلَن تَفۡعَلُواْ فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱلنَّارَ ٱلَّتِي وَقُودُهَا ٱلنَّاسُ وَٱلۡحِجَارَةُۖ أُعِدَّتۡ لِلۡكَٰفِرِينَ (24)
If you do not, and you will not, then fear the Fire which is fueled by people and stones, prepared for the unbelievers (24)
The "infidel" in the words of the Arabs
He is the one who covers something with a covering, and that God, may He be glorified, has only called the infidel an infidel, due to his denial of his favors with Him, and his bounties covering him before him.
Of the apparent provisions of the doctrine of the Sunnis and the community
n his saying “I have been prepared for the unbelievers”
1 - Heaven and Hell are created, unlike the Mu'tazila. 2 - The monotheists - even if they commit some major sins - do not live in Hell forever, He said, "It was prepared for the unbelievers." If the disobedient monotheists were to live therein, it would not have been prepared for the unbelievers alone, unlike the Kharijites and the Mu'tazila.
The links
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