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never make their trees grow. Is there another god TRIBE OF ISRAEL
besides Allah? No indeed, but they are people (CHILDREN OF ISRAEL)
who equate others with Him! (27:60) Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I con-
If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, ferred on you. Honour My contract and I will ho-
with seven more seas besides, was ink Allah’s nour your contract. Have dread of Me alone.
words still would not run dry. Allah is Almighty, (2:40)
All-Wise. (31:27) Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I con-
But they turned away so We unleashed against ferred on you and that I preferred you over all
them the flood from the great dam and ex- other beings. (2:47)
changed their two gardens for two others con- Remember when We made a covenant with the
taining bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a tribe of Israel: ‘Worship none but Allah and be
few lote trees. (34:16) good to your parents and to relatives and or-
Say ‘He Who made them in the first place will phans and the very poor. And speak good words
bring them back to life. He has total knowledge to people. And perform prayer and give the
of each created thing; He Who produces fire for alms.’ But then you turned away–except a few of
you from green trees so that you use them to light you–you turned aside. (2:83)
your fires.’ (36:79-80) Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I con-
Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of ferred on you, and that I preferred you over all
Zaqqum which We have made to be an ordeal other beings. (2:122)
for the wrongdoers? It is a tree that emerges in the Ask the tribe of Israel how many Clear Signs We
depths of the Blazing Fire. (37:62-64) gave to them. If anyone alters Allah’s blessing
And We caused a gourd tree to grow over him after it has come to him, Allah is fierce in retribu-
(Yunus). (37:146) tion. (2:211)
The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked. What do you think about the council of the tribe
(44:43) of Israel after Musa’s time when they said to one
Allah was pleased with the believers when they of their Prophets, ‘Give us a king and we will
pledged allegiance to you under the tree. He fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not pos-
knew what was in their hearts, and sent down sible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you
serenity to them and has rewarded them with an would not fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not
imminent victory. (48:18) fight in the way of Allah when we have been
He saw him again another time by the Lote-tree driven from our homes and children?’ But then
of the Final Limit, beside which is the Garden of when fighting was prescribed for them, they
Refuge, when that which covered the Lote-tree turned their backs–except for a few of them.
covered it. (53:13-16) Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
The stars and the trees all bow down in prostra- He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom,
tion. (55:6) and the Torah and the Gospel, as a Messenger to
(The Companions of the Right are) amid thorn- the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have brought you a
less lote-trees. (56:28) Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
(Deniers) will eat from the tree of Zaqqum. bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it
(56:52) and it will be a bird by Allah’s permission. I will
Is it you who make the trees that fuel it grow or heal the blind and the leper, and bring the dead
are We the Grower? (56:72) to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what
Whatever palm-trees you cut down, or left stand- you eat and what you store up in your homes.
ing upright on their roots, it was done by Allah’s There is a Sign for you in that if you are believ-
permission in order to disgrace the deviators. ers.’ (3:48-49)
(59:5) All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except
what Israel made unlawful for himself before the
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