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Surah Yaseen (36) — Ayah 80

Yaseen · Meccan · Juz 23 · Page 445

ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ ٱلْأَخْضَرِ نَارًا فَإِذَآ أَنتُم مِّنْهُ تُوقِدُونَ ﴿80﴾
He Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold you kindle therewith.
ٱلَّذِى alladhī The One Who
جَعَلَ jaʿala made
لَكُم lakum for you
مِّنَ mina from
ٱلشَّجَرِ l-shajari the tree
ٱلْأَخْضَرِ l-akhḍari [the] green
نَارًۭا nāran fire
فَإِذَآ fa-idhā and behold
أَنتُم antum You
مِّنْهُ min'hu from it
تُوقِدُونَ tūqidūna ignite

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By {الَّذِيْ جَعَلَ لَكُمْ مِّنَ الشَّجَرِ الْاَخْضَرِ نَارًا … : ’’ الْاَخْضَرِ ‘‘} is meant a fresh tree, which is filled with water. This is another proof of resurrection: that Allah is capable of bringing forth opposites from things; He will create a living human being from decayed bones, because see, water and fire are opposites of each other, yet He has placed in the water-filled fresh tree that substance which causes even fresh wood to catch fire. In the same way, He brings forth the dead from the living and the living from the dead, and will continue to do so.

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80. 1 It is said that in Arabia there are two trees, Markh and 'Afar. If their two sticks are rubbed together, fire is produced; regarding the production of fire from a green tree, this is what is being alluded to.

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80. He is the One Who made for you fire from the green tree [72], and behold, you kindle from it.

[72]
Allah Has Placed the Quality of Life in the Dead and Death in the Living:

That is, He created the tree from water. Then, in the end, He made it into fuel and brought forth fire from it. The tree began with water and ended with fire, and these two things are opposites, even, in a sense, enemies of each other. If the fire is in a small amount, water extinguishes it. And if the water is in a small amount, fire turns it into vapor and eliminates it. So, when Allah can create opposing qualities in the beginning and end of the same thing, then why can He not make the same thing alive from the dead and dead from the living? This is the case with ordinary trees and plants. Then there are some trees whose branches, when rubbed together, produce fire just as it is produced from flint stones. And there are some whose branches burn like candles, because they contain a significant amount of oil. In short, every tree and plant that is created from water has also been given the quality of combustibility. In exactly the same way, the quality of being alive in the dead and dying in the living has also been naturally placed.