Allah's Table Sent Down
- philhoraia
- Sep 18
- 2 min read
S 5:112-115 When the Hawariyun said: Isa son of Maryam, is your lord able to send down to us a table from the sky? He said: Fear Allah if you are believers. / They said: We want to eat from it and for our hearts to be satisfied and know that you have told us the truth and for us to be over it of the witnesses. / Isa son of Maryam said: Allahumma our lord, send down upon us a table from the sky being for us a festival for the first of us and the last of us and a sign from you. And provide us, and you are the best of providers. / Allah said: I am sending it down upon you so he who disbelieves after among you I torture him whom I do not torture anyone of the ‘alimin.
Ibn Kathir:
(Verily, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire. ) 4:145 Ibn Jarir said that `Abdullah bin `Amr said, "Those who will receive the severest torment on the Day of Resurrection are three: The hypocrites, those from the people of Al-Ma'idah who disbelieved in it, and the people of Fir`awn.'' Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Ibn `Abbas said, "They said to `Isa, son of Maryam, `Supplicate to Allah to send down to us from heaven, a table spread with food.' He also said, `So the angels brought the table down containing seven fish and seven pieces of bread and placed it before them. So the last group of people ate as the first group did.'' Ibn Jarir recorded that Ishaq bin `Abdullah said that the table was sent down to `Isa son of Maryam having seven pieces of bread and seven fish, and they ate from it as much as they wished. But when some of them stole food from it, saying, "It might not come down tomorrow,'' the table ascended. These statements testify that the table was sent down to the Children of Israel during the time of `Isa, son of Maryam, as a result of Allah's accepting his supplication to Him. https://quranx.com/Tafsir/Kathir/5.112
The opinion will remind the reader of the two occasions when Jesus fed the five thousand (Matthew 14) and four thousand (Matthew 15) and of the manna in the wilderness when the food would be available for six days of the week but not on the Sabbath but some went out anyway. Exodus 16
The passage itself puts me in mind of Psalm 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Psalm 78:19 They spoke against God, saying, "Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
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