Draft:Qur'an 29:20
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| Verse's Information | |
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| Sura | al-'Ankabut (Qur'an 29) |
| Verse | 20 |
| Juz' | 20 |
| Content Information | |
| Place of Revelation | Mecca |
| Topic | Studying and exploring the effects of creatures and past nations |
| About | The possibility of Resurrection |
| Related Verses | Qur'an 30:42 • Qur'an 6:11 • Qur'an 27:69 • Qur'an 16:36 • Qur'an 3:137 |
Qur'an 29:20 points to God's power in recreating creatures after their destruction[1] and considers it a reason for the existence of the Resurrection and Return and a sign of God's endless greatness and power.[2] According to Makarim Shirazi, Qur'an 29:19 and 20 of Sura al-'Ankabut are both about the possibility of the Resurrection. In these verses, by emphasizing God's vast power in the creation of creatures and examining past nations, the possibility of Resurrection is shown.[3] Fakhr al-Razi, a Sunni exegete, also like Shi'a exegetes says that by observing God's power in the initial creation of creatures, the possibility of reviving them once again is clearly evident, and these observations prove God's power and the existence of the Resurrection.[4]
| “ | قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانظُرُوا كَيْفَ بَدَأَ الْخَلْقَ ۚ ثُمَّ اللَّهُ يُنشِئُ النَّشْأَةَ الْآخِرَةَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
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| “ | Say, ‘Travel over the land and observe how He has originated the creation. Then Allah will bring about the genesis of the Hereafter. Indeed Allah has power over all things.’
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| — Qur'an 29:20 | ||
According to Shi'a and Sunni exegetes, in this verse, the command to travel at the beginning of the verse means the command to contemplate and think.[5] God addresses the Prophet (a) to tell the polytheists and deniers of the Resurrection to take a lesson by observing and contemplating the creation of creatures and their revival,[6] so that by understanding how they were created and the diversity of their colors and shapes, they may believe in God's power.[7] Abu l-Futuh al-Razi, a Shi'a exegete, also believes that God, by addressing the Prophet (a), wants to tell the polytheists to think and take a lesson about them by traveling the earth and observing the remains left from past nations.[8]
Muhammad Jawad Mughniyya, a Shi'a exegete, has also explained that this command is to study the conditions of the predecessors to counter imitation and prove monotheism and the Resurrection, and considers it a kind of recommendation for acquiring knowledge.[9] According to Makarim Shirazi, God in the Qur'an has recommended traveling and touring the earth in numerous verses to learn a lesson from the predecessors, and in all these verses the phrase "sīrū fī l-arḍ" (travel over the land) is mentioned. Among these verses, one can refer to Qur'an 30:42, Qur'an 6:11, Qur'an 27:69, Qur'an 16:36, and Qur'an 3:137.[10]
Notes
- ↑ Al-Ṭabarsī, Jāmiʿ al-bayān, 1372 Sh, vol. 8, p. 435.
- ↑ Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-bayān, 1372 Sh, vol. 8, p. 435.
- ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, 1371 Sh, vol. 16, p. 236.
- ↑ Fakhr al-Rāzī, al-Tafsīr al-kabīr, 1420 AH, vol. 25, p. 41.
- ↑ Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1390 AH, vol. 16, p. 118; Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, 1371 Sh, vol. 16, p. 236; Ṭanṭāwī, al-Tafsīr al-wasīṭ, 1997, vol. 11, p. 25; Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-bayān, 1412 AH, vol. 20, p. 90.
- ↑ Al-Ṭabarsī, Majmaʿ al-bayān, 1372 Sh, vol. 8, p. 435; Al-Ṭūsī, al-Tibyān, Beirut, vol. 8, p. 196; Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1390 AH, vol. 16, p. 118.
- ↑ Al-Ṭabarsī, Majmaʿ al-bayān, 1372 Sh, vol. 8, p. 435; Al-Ṭūsī, al-Tibyān, Beirut, vol. 8, p. 196; Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1390 AH, vol. 16, p. 118.
- ↑ Abū l-Futūḥ al-Rāzī, Rawḍ al-jinān, 1408 AH, vol. 15, p. 197.
- ↑ Mughniyya, al-Tafsīr al-kāshif, 1424 AH, vol. 6, p. 103.
- ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, 1371 Sh, vol. 3, p. 104.
References
- Abū l-Futūḥ al-Rāzī, Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī. Rawḍ al-jinān wa rūḥ al-jinān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Mashhad: Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1408 AH.
- Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn. Al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Aʿlamī li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1390 AH.
- Al-Ṭabarsī, al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥasan. Majmaʿ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Tehran: Nāṣir Khusraw, 1372 Sh.
- Al-Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr. Jāmiʿ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Beirut: Dār al-Maʿrifa, 1412 AH.
- Ṭanṭāwī, Muḥammad Sayyid. Al-Tafsīr al-wasīṭ li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm. Cairo: Nahḍat Miṣr, 1997.
- Al-Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan. Al-Tibyān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, n.d.
- Fakhr al-Rāzī, Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. Tafsīr kabīr. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 1420 AH.
- Mughniyya, Muḥammad Jawād. Al-Tafsīr al-kāshif. Qom: Dār al-Kitāb al-Islāmiyya, 1424 AH.
- Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir. Tafsīr-i nimūna. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1371 Sh.