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Ibrahim 24

Ayah 24 of 52 · Meccan

أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلٗا كَلِمَةٗ طَيِّبَةٗ كَشَجَرَةٖ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصۡلُهَا ثَابِتٞ وَفَرۡعُهَا فِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ ٢٤

Have you not considered how Allāh presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky?

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. أَلَمۡDo notalam
  2. تَرَyou seetara
  3. كَيۡفَhowkayfa
  4. ضَرَبَAllah sets forthḍaraba
  5. ٱللَّهُAllah sets forthl-lahu
  6. مَثَلٗاthe examplemathalan
  7. كَلِمَةٗa wordkalimatan
  8. طَيِّبَةٗgoodṭayyibatan
  9. كَشَجَرَةٖ(is) like a treekashajaratin
  10. طَيِّبَةٍgoodṭayyibatin
  11. أَصۡلُهَاits rootaṣluhā
  12. ثَابِتٞ(is) firmthābitun
  13. وَفَرۡعُهَاand its brancheswafarʿuhā
  14. فِي(are) infī
  15. ٱلسَّمَآءِthe skyl-samāi

Tafsir

O Messenger, do you not know how Allah presented an example of the monotheistic phrase: “There is no deity but Allah”, when He likened it to an excellent tree, the date palm. Its trunk shoots into the earth’s floor and it drinks water with its excellent roots. Its branches reach out into the sky, drinking from the moisture and inhaling the good wind.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran