RENAISSANCE DECEMBER 2020

Qur’ ā nic Exegesis 37 Monthly Renaissance December 2020 ﺟۡﺮً ﻋﻈﻴۡﻤًﺎ﴿ ٢٩﴾ promised, those among these people who have embraced faith and did good deeds, 60 forgiveness and a rich reward. (29) Kuala Lumpur 12 th September 2014 ـــــــــــــــــــــــــ A ḥ san I ṣ l āḥī writes: … Since believers are implied in the parable, here at the end by saying that their rise and ascent will be a cause of yearning and envy for the disbelievers, it is as if the entity for which the parable was stated has been referred to. It is very common in the Arabic language that at the end of a parable or a metaphor a word is used which points to the entity for which a parable or a metaphor is mentioned so that the real purport becomes evident. (Am ī n A ḥ san I ṣ l āḥī , Tadabbur-i Qur’ ā n , vol. 7, 476) 60. This is stated so that it becomes evident to the addressees that the glad tidings are meant only for the sincere; not for the hypocrites whose attitude is under discussion in this s ū rah .