Surat al-Tin
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التين At-Tīn The Fig |
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| Classification | Meccan |
| Other names | The Fig Tree |
| Position | Juzʼ 30 |
| No. of verses | 8 |
| No. of words | 34 |
| No. of letters | 162 |
Arabic text · English translation
Sūrat at-Tīn (Arabic: التين, “The Fig”, “The Figtree”) is the ninety-fifth sura of the Qur'an with 8 ayat.
This sura opens by mentioning the fig (the sura’s namesake), the olive, Mount Sinai, and "this city secured" (generally considered to be Mecca).
Muhammad Asad, the author of The Message of The Qur'an comments on these verses as follows:
The "fig" and the "olive" symbolize, in this context, the lands in which these trees predominate: i.e., the countries bordering on the eastern part of the Mediterranean, especially Palestine and Syria. As it was in these lands that most of the Abrahamic prophets mentioned in the Qur’an lived and preached, these two species of tree may be taken as metonyms for the religious teachings voiced by the long line of those God-inspired men, culminating in the person of the last Judaic prophet, Jesus. "Mount Sinai", on the other hand, stresses specifically the apostleship of Moses, inasmuch as the religious law valid before, and up to, the advent of Muhammad—and in its essentials binding on Jesus as well—was revealed to Moses on a mountain of the Sinai Desert. Finally, "this land secure" signifies undoubtedly (as is evident from 2:126) Mecca, where Muhammad, the Last Prophet, was born and received his divine call.
The cosmology of the Qur'an states that God made mankind out of clay. This sura suggests not only this, but that the mould which God used for man was "the best possible". The lowness of the clay has set humanity apart from God; because clay is heavier and more solid than fire, from which the Jinn were made, or light, from which the angels came.
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