Similitudes
- philhoraia
- Sep 7, 2023
- 8 min read
S 2:26 Allah is not ashamed to make a similitude of even a mosquito and even above it. So as for those who have believed, and they know that it is the truth from their lord, and as for those who have disbelieved, and they say: What did Allah want by this similitude? He misguides therewith many and guides therewith many. And he does not misguide therewith except the fasiqun.
Allah misguides by means of its similitudes? So Allah misguides Muslims?
S 10:24 The similitude of the dunya life is only like water that we have sent down from the sky, so the vegetation of the Earth has been mixed with it from what people and cattle eat until when the Earth has taken its gold and has been adorned and its people have thought that they have power over it, our command has come to it by night or by day and we have made it a crop as though it had not availed yesterday. Thus do we detail the verses for people who ponder.
S 11:24 The similitude of the two parties is like the blind man and the deaf and the seer and the hearer. Are they equal in likeness? So do you not remember?
S 13:17 He has sent down from the sky water and valleys have flown by their quantity and the stream has carried rising foam. And from what they kindle on it in the fire to seek a bijou or pleasure, scum the like of it. Thus does Allah give the truth and the falsehood. And as for the scum, it passes away as dross. And as for what benefits people, it remains in the Earth. Thus does Allah give the similitudes.
S 13:35 The similitude of the Jannah which the fearers have been promised, rivers run beneath it. Its food is lasting and its shade. That is the result of those who have feared and the result of the kafirun is the fire.
Its food and shade are lasting? So they're temporary?
S 14:18 The similitude of those who have disbelieved in their lord, their deeds are like ash that the wind has been more vehement with on a stormy day. They do not have power of what they have earned over anything. That is the far error.
S 14:24 Have you not seen how Allah has made a similitude: A good word is like a good tree, its origin is fixed and its branch is in the sky?
S 14:25 It gives its food all the time with permission of its lord. And Allah gives the similitudes to people; perhaps they will remember.
People receive permission.
S 14:26 And a similitude of a malignant word is like a malignant tree that has been uprooted from above the Earth, not having any steadiness.
S 16:60 For those who do not believe in the hereafter a similitude of the evil and for Lah the highest similitude. And he is the mighty, the wise.
S 16:74 So do not coin the similitudes for Lah. Allah knows and you do not know.
S 16:75 Allah has coined a similitude, a slave who is owned who has no power over anything and him whom we have given a good provision from us so he spends of it secretly and publicly. Are they equal? Praise be to Lah! Rather, most of them do not know.
For the founder of Islam a slave was not equal to a free man.
S 16:76 And Allah has coined a similitude of two men. One of them dumb who has no power over anything and he is a fatigue on his mawla. Wherever he sends him he does not bring good. Are equal he and and he who commands with justice and he is on a straight path?
Mawla can mean either a master or a(n emancipated) slave.
S 16:112 And Allah has coined a similitude of a village that was secure, confident, its provision coming to it opulently from every place but it disbelieved in Allah’s graces so Allah made it taste the garment of hunger and fear for what they used to do.
Made it taste a garment?
S 17:48 Look how they have coined the similitudes for you but they have strayed so cannot a way.
S 17:89 And we have laid out for people in this quran of every similitude. But most people have refused except disbelief.
Every similitude is recorded in (this) quran?
S 18:32 And coin for them a similitude of two men. We assigned to one of them two jannat of grapes and we enclosed them with date palms and put a plantation between them.
The author is being called upon by Allah to coin a similitude, which Allah then coins?
S 18:45 And coin for them the similitude of the dunya life. Like water that we have sent down from the sky then the vegetation of the Earth was mingled with it then it became chaff which the winds scatter. And Allah was capable over everything.
S 18:54 And we have explained in this quran for people from every similitude. And man was an argument in most things.
S 22:73 People, a similitude has been coined so listen to it. Those whom you invoke instead of Allah will not create a fly even if they gathered for it. And if the fly despoiled them of a thing they would not save it from it. Weakened was the seeker and the sought.
S 24:35 Allah is the light of the skies and the Earth. A similitude of his light is as a niche wherein is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass, the glass is as though it were a brilliant planet, lit from a blessed tree, an olive tree, not eastern or western, its oil almost illuminates, even if fire had not touched it. Light upon light. Allah guides to his light whom he wills. And Allah makes similitudes for people. And Allah is learned in everything.
S 25:9 See how they have coined the similitudes for you and have strayed so are not able a way.
S 25:33 And they do not bring you a similitude but we have brought you the truth and the best tafsir.
S 29:43 And those similitudes, we coin them for people and none comprehends them but the knowledgeable.
So quran isn't for all to fully understand, not that anyone can fully understand it, and quran itself says that only Allah can interpret (sic) it. See: None Knows Its Interpretation But Allah
S 30:27 And he is the one who begins creation then repeats it and it is easier for him. And his is the similitude, the high one, in the skies and the Earth. And he is the mighty, the wise.
S 30:28 He has given you a similitude from yourselves. Do you have of what your right hands have possessed any partners in what we have provided you with, so you are equal therein, fearing them as you fear yourselves? Thus do we detail the verses for people who comprehend.
S 30:58 And we have given for people in this Quran of every similitude. And if you have brought them a verse those who have disbelieved will say: You are nothing but pretenders.
S 36:13 And coin for them a similitude of the companions of the village, when the commissaries came to it,
S 36:78 And he has coined a similitude for us and he has forgotten his creation. He said: Who vivifies the bones while they are worn out?
S 39:27 And we have coined for people in this quran of every similitude; perhaps they will remember.
S 39:29 Allah has coined a similitude. A man concerning whom are partners quarrelling and a man, submission to a man. Are they equal in similitude? Praise be to Lah! Rather, most of them do not know.
S 47:3 That is because those who have disbelieved have followed falsehood and that those who have believed have followed the truth from their lord. Thus does Allah give to people their similitudes.
S 47:15 A similitude of the Jannah which the fearers have been promised. Therein are rivers of water that is not stagnant and rivers of milk whose taste has not changed and rivers of wine, delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clarified honey and theirs therein of all the fruits and forgiveness from their lord like those who abide indefinitely in the fire and have been given to drink boiling water and it has cut their intestines up.
S 59:21 Had we sent down this quran on a mountain you would have seen it devout, cracked from fear of Allah. And those similitudes we give to people; perhaps they will reflect.
'Those' is actually feminine; we might have expected the masculine.
If a mountain would have been cracked had it been 'sent down' on it, why wasn't the author, although cracked in a different sense?
S 74:31 And we have not made the companions of the fire but angels. And we have not made their number except as fitnah for those who have disbelieved that those who were given the Book may be certain and that those who have believed may increase in faith and that those who were given the Book and the believers may not doubt and that those in whose hearts is disease and the kafirun may say: What did Allah want by this similitude? Thus Allah misguides whom he wills and guides whom he wills. And none knows your lord’s troops but him. And it is nothing but a remembrance for the human being.
If quran is eternal and uncreated, why do we find verses speaking of Allah's coining and having coined similitudes? And why do we find a verse that has 'Allah' calling upon the author to coin one, and then having ALLAH come up with one?
Etymology 3
Noun
likeness
metaphor, simile, parable
proverb, adage
example
lesson
ideal, model مثل - Wiktionary
مَثَل
- A person or thing cited as a notable example - lesson; byword
مَثَل
- Imitating someone because you like him - Imitating someone because you like him - Noun gerund of verb (to rival) - Noun gerund of verb (to rival) - The quality of being the same - Like or similar to (somebody or something) - Like or similar to (somebody or something) - Action or behaviour in accordance with established practice - Action or behaviour in accordance with established practice - The quality of being the same or always being good - The quality of being the same or always being good - The quality of being the same or always being good - The quality of being the same or always being good - The ability to exist or be used together without causing problems - The ability to exist or be used together without causing problems - Agreeing with - absolute sameness; harmony; likeness; pinpointing; recognition; resemblance; similarity; conformity; consistence; consistency; agreement; accord
مَثَل
- Instance of the occurrence of something - Special conditions relating to a person - Quotation or the act of giving or mentioning an example - illustration; instance; case; example
مَثَل
- saying; maxim; saw; gnome; adage; aphorism
مَثَل
- Story told to illustrate a moral truth - parable
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