وإذ أخذ ربك من بني آدم من ظهورهم ذريتهم وأشهدهم على أنفسهم ألست بربكم قالوا بلى شهدنا أن تقولوا يوم القيامة إنا كنا عن هذا غافلين . أو تقولوا إنما أشرك آباؤنا من قبل وكنا ذرية من بعدهم أفتهلكنا بما فعل المبطلون
الأعراف:172-173
172. And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam's loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We testify," lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: "Verily, we have been unaware of this."
173. Or lest you should say: "It was only our fathers afortime who took others as partners in worship along with Allah, and we were (merely their) descendants after them; will You then destroy us because of the deeds of men who practiced Al-Batil (i.e. polytheism and committing crimes and sins, invoking and worshiping others besides Allah)?" (Tafsir At-Tabari).
the words used here are that the children of Adam-humans- were brought out from the loins ,and their seed etc, this doe not capture what the qur'an actually says.
on the other hands if we take the words literally they mean: and as you lord took a vow from the children of Adam to testify to themselves from their appearance etc.
the word ظهورهم in Arabic has two meanings, 'appearance/emergence', and the 'back'. many translate it as 'their backs', or attempt to clarify by saying he meant their loins, since the seed of man comes from there and he's speaking about the children of Adam. and the back is connected to the loins etc.
but we needn't go far, by 'emergence' we can understand the verse to be talking about the history of mankind, note: the second part of the verse warns that the vow humans have made with their lord to testify amongst themselves prevents them from claiming ignorance by saying they didn't follow Allah's way since their fathers didn't either, and that they simply followed what they were taught.
now the words 'to testify' can also be seen in two lights, one: to testify verbally, the other: to testify by action, here the latter is meant. that is to say their own actions serve to testify to the matter.
the reason they can't use this as an excuse is that human history itself refutes it, or more clearly as Allah has sent the prophets to remind the people, no one who received revelation through them can claim ignorance. saying that their own ancestors or parents had refused it and not looking for themselves while being able to do so is again no excuse.
Allah said:
(1)“By the Fig and the Olive
(2)And the Mount of Sinai
(3)And This City of Security
(4)We have indeed created man in the best of moulds ” (97:1-4)
Explanation: The Fig and the Olive are actually meant to be locations not food.
Also did you notice that the first three verses talk about the best 5 people on Earth.
(1) The Fig (At-teen) = it resembles the location where Nooh had his ship (2) The Olive (Az-zaytoon) = where Issa (Jesus) -alayhe as salam- was born (3) Toor ( The mount of Sinai) = When Musa alayhe as salam has talked to Allah (4) This city of security (Makkah) = Makkah when Ibrahim alayhe as salam made dua that it would be a safe city and that Allah would send a prophet amongest them, which is Mohammad -be peace upon him- and he was from Makkah as well.
This is very interesting and it makes sense. It also shows that the Qur'an is nuanced and layered and that we know very little about the Quran
According to ibn Abbas, the Quraish proposed to the Holy Prophet; "We shall give you so much of wealth that you will become the richest man of Makkah; we shall give you whichever woman you like in marriage; we are prepared to follow and obey you as our leader, only on the condition that you will not speak ill of our gods. If you do not agree to this, we present another proposal which is to your as well as to our advantage. "When the Holy Prophet asked what it was, they said that if he would worship their gods, Lat and Uzza, for a year, they would worship his God for the same space of time. The Holy Prophet said: "Wait awhile; let me see what my Lord commands in this regard. "Thereupon the revelation came down: Qul ya-ayyuhal¬kafirun
According to another tradition from Ibn Abbas, the Quraish said to the Holy Prophet: "O Muhammad, if you kiss our gods, the idols, we shall worship your God. "Thereupon,this Surah was sent down.
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