LESSON # 51 HOLY QUR’AAN
BAQARAH - 2
Adam In The Garden And
Prohibited Tree
Verse – 35 of 286, section -4
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And We said: O Adam! Dwell thou and
thy wife in the Garden, and eat ye, freely (of the fruits) thereof where ye
will; but come not nigh
this tree lest ye become wrongdoers.
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qulnaa yaaa-‘Aada-mus-kun ‘anta wa zaw-jukal-Jannata wa kulaaminhaa ragadan
hay-su shi’-tumaa; wa laa taqrabaa haazihish-shajarata fata-kuunaa
minaz-zaalimiin.
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Lesson
Jannata – literal significance of this
word is the garden whose close trees cover the earth. In the phrase of Divine
precepts of Religion its significance is that splendid Garden in which there
are uncounted blessings and which will be conferred to the persons of good
disposition. That Garden is called Jannah
also because that is hidden from our sights too.
zaw-juka – (Your wife) Eve (the wife of
Adam (peace be upon Him) who was already created before this discussion. She is
the Mother all of us.
Hay-su shi’-tumaa – (Where ye will) (from where you wish to eat) this word exposes the
width and greatness of the Paradise .
God Almighty created the Adam in accord with His
own Will and made him the viceroy of His Own on the earth. Then to clear his
position Allah Almighty ordered the Angels to prostrate towards the Adam (peace
be upon him) so that anyone may not have courage to rebel or disobey Him. The
Angels admitted the greatness of the Adam and bowed towards Him.
After the Caliphate of Adam (Peace be upon Him)
Allah Almighty gave them (Adam and His wife) chance to live in the Paradise , eat and drink what they wish.
About the Eve Commentators of Islam narrated that
the Adam was alone in the Paradise . He was tired
of aloneness. So God created the Eve and commanded both to live in the Paradise .
It is evident that God Almighty gave the Adam how
many rewards and ranks, at first He was given knowledge, then He became Caliph
of God, then he was presented a life partner (wife) for comfort and pleasure,
then He was placed in Paradise and bestowed uncounted blessings for eating and
drinking. Allah Almighty bestows presents to His servants always. Now it is the
duty of His servants to thank God and know the respect of these favours.
Laa taqrabaa - come not nigh (near). Actual significance of this order was that the
Adam should not eat the fruit of that particular tree.
Haazihish-shajarata – ‘this tree’ was a tree out of the trees of Paradise
and the Adam was acquainted about that tree. In the Holy Qur’aan there is no
explanation about it however the commentators of the religion have different
views about that particular tree. Some of them say that it was the tree of
grapes and some say that it was plant of wheat; some have view as dates and
fig. In the Sayings of the Messenger of God (Peace and blessings on Him) it has
not been explained.
Minaz-zaalimiin – (out of wrongdoers) it is the significance of those
people who oppress themselves. Disobeying the orders of God is the oppression
over oneself. Now it is clear that at that time means of the Paradise
was not as the reward of good deeds as now it has. But at that time there were
Divine’s laws. Some orders were to obey them and some deeds were to be prevented
to do them.
It is the lesson for us that the person who does
the works of doubts and suspicions him endangers himself intensively for wrong
deeds. So the God Almighty prevented the Adam (peace be upon Him) to go near
that prohibited tree so that neither they will go nigh the tree and nor they
will wish to eat it. We should also abstain from the doubtful and suspicious
things. It should also be remembered that the person who disobeys the orders of
God Almighty he actually loses his own. He creates mischief for himself in this
world as well as the next world i.e. Doomsday.
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