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Quran Enough To Explain Itself?
10. This objection was raised by the Jews. When Muslims attacked them they chopped off some trees from their orchards. These trees were not cut because of intention of some foul play or to seek revenge; they were cut keeping in view the needs and requirements of the battle and to make these wrongdoers reach their fate. Similarly, the trees which were left intact was not because Muslims needed them but because they were not at the site of the battle and the Muslims did not need to cut them. However, the Jews used this incident to launch a propaganda against Islam. They declared that Muslims who claim to be reformers in the land have ruined their orchards by chopping off good quality fruit-laden palm trees and in this way were guilty of spreading disorder in the land which was what most victors do. The Qur’ān has answered this objection; however, since those who had raised this objection were not worthy of being addressed, hence it has addressed the Muslims while giving this answer. Muslims are told that they should not care about what these people are saying; whatever they did was in the presence of the messenger of God and at his behest. In other words, they had God’s permission in this regard and God gave them this permission so that they could see from their very eyes the destruction of their luxuriant orchards and also witness them going into the hands of the Muslims and were thus humiliated before the Day of Judgement in this very world so that the promise of God was fulfilled. The promise referred to is the one that those who try to oppose Him even after the truth is conclusively conveyed to them by God will ultimately reach this fate.
The above is the explanation for:
Al-Hashr – 59:5
Arabic
مَا قَطَعۡتُم مِّن لِّينَةٍ أَوۡ تَرَكۡتُمُوهَا قَآئِمَةً عَلَىٰٓ أُصُولِهَا فَبِإِذۡنِ ٱللَّهِ وَلِيُخۡزِىَ ٱلۡفَٰسِقِينَ
I was completely lost reading just the Quran here. Is all this historical data established history or inferred from somewhere else in the Quran?
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Quran Enough To Explain Itself?
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Read from verse one in the sequence, Quran itself is telling the whole incident. History details are only included secondarily when the primary content and context of Quran accepts those details.
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The only thing we can infer from purely the Quran is that trees were cut down in the context of battle and it was only because of Allah’s will. Nowhere can we infer that this was a propaganda from the Jews or anything of that nature. So doesn’t the verse lose meaning?
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Read from verse 1 again.
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I did- I don’t get an idea of propaganda anywhere here after the battle of suggesting fasaad. Only that the battle was due to their opposition
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Every object in the heavens and the earth has glorified God, and He alone is Mighty, and Wise.1 It is He Who drove the disbelievers among the People of the Book out of their dwellings for their first fate2.3 You never thought that they would go out [in this manner];4 and they also thought that their forts would protect them from the [punishment of] God.5 But God came upon them from where they did not even expect it. And He struck terror into their hearts.6 They were destroying their dwellings by their own hands and also by the hands of the Muslims.7 So learn from their example O you who have eyes! (1-2)
And had God not destined exile for them [like this] from various places, He would have punished them in this world8 and in the Hereafter for them there already is the punishment of Hell. This is because they tried to oppose God and His Messenger. And those who oppose God9 [reach this very fate] because God is stern in retribution. (3-4)
[If they hold an objection, just disregard it because] the palm trees you cut down or spared [at the time of their attack] was because of God’s directive and so that He may humiliate the defiant.10 (5)
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So a picture has been painted that these people are hell bent on opposing God and his messenger. So they will obviously provide objections that is why it was implied.
Thanks
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