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Verse 5 of Sura al-Jumu'a
Verse's Information
SuraSura al-Jumu'a (Qur'an 62)
Verse5
Juz'28
Content Information
Place of
Revelation		Medina
TopicMoral
AboutThe Qur'anic parable of the unpracticing Jewish scholars
Related VersesQur'an 62:6 • Qur'an 62:7 • Qur'an 62:8


Qur'an 62:5 likens the Jewish scholars who did not act according to the teachings of the Torah to a donkey that does not understand anything of the knowledge and wisdom of the books it carries.[1] According to Nasir Makarim Shirazi, this verse is one of the Qur'anic parables about the Jews at the time of the Prophet (s) who, despite the explicit mention of the prophethood of the Prophet of Islam in their own heavenly book, did not convert to the religion of Islam and became instances of unpracticing scholars.[2]

According to exegetes, Qur'an 62:5 and the next three verses of this sura are about blaming worldly Jews.[3] Based on some narrations, the Jews used to say that the religion of Muhammad (s) does not include us; therefore, the Qur'an reminds them that if they had read their heavenly book carefully and acted upon it, they would not have said this; because the glad tidings of the emergence of the Prophet of Islam are mentioned in it.[4]

Imam Khomeini has raised the aforementioned verse as a reminder to distinguish unpracticing and corrupt scholars from practicing, committed, and guided scholars.[5] Husayn Mazaheri, a Shi'a jurist, considering the belief in the embodiment of actions, believes that this verse indicates that in the Resurrection, unpracticing scholars will enter the gathering place in the shape of a donkey.[6] According to al-Shaykh al-Tusi, the peoples about whom this example is mentioned are bad peoples who deny divine verses, prophets, and clear proofs.[7]

Qur'an 62:5 has been reflected in Persian poems. 'Ali Akbar Dihkhuda in the book Amthal wa hikam brings several lines of poetry and considers them derived from this very verse: among them these lines by Sa'di: Template:Poem These lines by Rumi are also considered to be referring to this verse: Template:Poem Salman Savaji has also composed: Template:Poem

Notes

  1. ↑ Ṭabarsī, Majmaʿ al-bayān, 1372 Sh, vol. 10, p. 430; Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Al-Mīzān, 1417 AH, vol. 19, p. 66.
  2. ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Mathal-hā-yi zībā-yi Qurʾān, 1382 Sh, vol. 2, p. 267.
  3. ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, 1374 Sh, vol. 24, p. 125.
  4. ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, 1374 Sh, vol. 24, p. 114.
  5. ↑ Khumaynī, Ṣaḥīfa-yi Imām, 1389 Sh, vol. 9, p. 335.
  6. ↑ "Chirā Qurʾān barkhī az insān-hā rā bi ḥaywān tashbīh karda ast?" IQNA website.
  7. ↑ Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī, Al-Tibyān, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, vol. 10, p. 5.

References

  • "Chirā Qurʾān barkhī az insān-hā rā bi ḥaywān tashbīh karda ast?" IQNA website. Published: Day 1, 1392 Sh. Accessed: Mihr 30, 1402 Sh.
  • Dihkhudā, ʿAlī Akbar. Amthāl wa ḥikam. Tehran, Amīr Kabīr, 1383 Sh.
  • Khumaynī, Sayyid Rūḥ Allāh. Ṣaḥīfa-yi Imām. Tehran, Muʾassasa-yi Tanẓīm wa Nashr-i Āthār-i Imām Khumaynī, 1389 Sh.
  • Kulaynī, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-. Al-Kāfī. Edited by ʿAlī Akbar Ghaffārī and Muḥammad Ākhūndī. Tehran, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1389 AH.
  • Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir. Mathal-hā-yi zībā-yi Qurʾān. Qom, Nasl-i Jawān, 1382 Sh.
  • Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir. Tafsīr-i nimūna. Tehran, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1374 Sh.
  • "Mathal-hā-yi Qurʾānī: Fānūs-i bī-sū". Purtāl-i Jāmiʿ-i ʿUlūm-i Insānī website. Accessed: Ābān 3, 1402 Sh.
  • Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn. Al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Qom, Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī, 1417 AH.
  • Ṭabarsī, Faḍl b. Ḥasan al-. Majmaʿ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Tehran, Intishārāt-i Nāṣir Khusraw, 1372 Sh.
  • Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. Ḥasan al-. Al-Tibyān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Edited by Aḥmad Qaṣīr al-ʿĀmilī. Beirut, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, n.d.
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