Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:29
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 29 of 96
وَطَلْحٍۢ مَّنضُودٍۢ
Translation
and clustered acacia
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And clustered banana-trees, layered with fruit.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note 'talhin mandud', trees whose fruit is stacked and layered abundantly, tier upon tier, heavy with plenty. Ask yourself: the image is of density, not a single fruit but layers of it, abundance piled on abundance. The Qur'an keeps refusing my stingy imagination of reward, insisting on overflow rather than sufficiency. It hints that my Lord's generosity is not measured out in careful minimums but heaped in layers. When I picture what He might give, in this life or the next, do I picture a modest ration, or trees layered thick with fruit? My small expectation of His giving may be one of the quiet ways I fail to know Him.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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