Peace
[2:126] And remember Abraham said: "My Lord, make this a City of Peace, and feed its people with fruits,-such of them as believe in Allah and the Last Day." He said: "(Yea), and such as reject Faith,-for a while will I grant them their pleasure, but will soon drive them to the torment of Fire,- an evil destination (indeed)!"
Fruits in Makkah
For me Abraham was not in Makka for asking Allah to grow fruits in the desert where nobody lived.
Peace.
It is a prayer of Abraham (pbuh) to God it is figurative to mean prosperity. Abraham (pbuh) in his prayer is asking God to keep its people prosperous. And even though it is barren desert it has been prosperous throughout history one way or another.
Here are verses that are of value:
And convey good news to those who believe and do good deeds, that they shall have gardens in which rivers flow; whenever they shall be given a portion of the fruit thereof, they shall say: This is what was given to us before; and they shall be given the like of it, and they shall have pure mates in them, and in them, they shall abide.
Surely Allah is not ashamed to set forth any parable-- (that of) a gnat or any thing above that; then as for those who believe, they know that it is the truth from their Lord, and as for those who disbelieve, they say: What is it that Allah means by this parable: He causes many to err by it and many He leads aright by it! but He does not cause to err by it (any) except the transgressors,
The connection between the nature of fruits constantly changing in taste to purified spouses in Paradise along with Allah not being 'ashamed to set forth any parable' is obvious. The disbelievers were trying to poke holes in the Quran at the parables God had used to explain the nature of a world never experienced before by human beings, i.e. "no human beings knows what is in store for them". Allah states quite clearly that he has no qualms in using what the disbelievers consider as 'trivial' such as a gnat to explain higher truths, which is the ultimate goal, and in the end, as the Quran says in another place, the disbelievers cannot even 'create a fly' and if the 'fly' were to snatch something from the food given to the idols, the disbelievers, let alone their gods, would never be able to retrieve it.
The main implication is that these poking holes was clearly an agenda, meant to divest away from the reality of the message as well as it's inimitability, which is alluded to a few verses up in the challenge to produce anything like the Quran. The Quran states that one can only profit from the Quran when one approaches it with seriousness and a desire to understand the truth.
In other places of the Quran, this same mentality is referred to regarding the disbelievers. For example, the "tree of zaquum" whose branches are like 'heads of devils' is called a 'trial for the disbelievers' in the Quran, the implication being, when the disbelievers heard about this, they stated "Look at Muhammad!!! He says Hell is a place of fire and boiling water, and at the same time, he is telling us that a tree can grow in it." In another instance, the Quran states that Hell has nineteen over it, and the disbelivers would argue, "Look at Muhammad!!! He says Hell is this vast place that will punish the disbelievers, and yet, only nineteen angels will maintain it. If such is the case, our own numbers will deal with these angels when we get there."
The Quran states that a believer increases in his faith when he heras such things, for he understands the might of God, as well as the fact that his powers are not limited by the extent of a 'person's thought'. As the Quran states in many instances, who was it that created the universe out of nothing in the first place? Is he not capable of creating another?
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