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Deep study · دِرَاسَة
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Verse · Āyah
2:53
وَإِذْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ وَٱلْفُرْقَانَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ ٥٣
And when We gave unto Moses the Scripture and the criterion (of right and wrong), that ye might be led aright.
And [recall] when We gave Moses the Scripture and criterion that perhaps you would be guided.
Remember that (at that very time, when you were committing this gross iniquity) We gave Moses the Book and the criterion of right and wrong so that you might be guided aright.
وَقَوْلُهُ: ﴿وَإِذْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ﴾ يَعْنِي: التَّوْرَاةَ ﴿وَالْفُرْقَانَ﴾ وَهُوَ مَا يَفْرق بَيْنَ الْحَقِّ وَالْبَاطِلِ، وَالْهُدَى وَالضَّلَالِ ﴿لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ﴾ وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ -أَيْضًا-بَعْدَ خُرُوجِهِمْ مِنَ الْبَحْرِ، كَمَا دَلَّ عَلَيْهِ سِيَاقُ الْكَلَامِ فِي سُورَةِ الْأَعْرَافِ. وَلِقَوْلِهِ [[في جـ:" "وكقوله".]] تَعَالَى: ﴿وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا أَهْلَكْنَا الْقُرُونَ الأولَى بَصَائِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ﴾ [الْقَصَصِ: ٤٣] .
وَقِيلَ: الْوَاوُ زَائِدَةٌ، وَالْمَعْنَى: وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ وَالْفُرْقَانَ وَهَذَا غَرِيبٌ، وَقِيلَ: عُطِفَ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنْ كَانَ الْمَعْنَى وَاحِدًا، كَمَا فِي قَوْلِ الشَّاعِرِ:
وَقَدَّمَتِ الْأَدِيمَ لِرَاقِشِيهِ ... فَأَلْفَى قَوْلَهَا كَذِبًا وَمَيْنَا ...
وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ:
أَلَا حَبَّذَا هِنْدٌ وَأَرْضٌ بِهَا هِنْدُ ... وَهِنْدٌ أَتَى مِنْ دُونِهَا النَّأْيُ وَالْبُعْدُ ...
فَالْكَذِبُ هُوَ الْمَيْنُ، وَالنَّأْيُ: هُوَ الْبُعْدُ. وَقَالَ عَنْتَرَةُ:
حُيِّيتَ مِنْ طَلَلٍ تَقَادَمَ عَهْدُهُ ... أَقْوَى وَأَقْفَرَ بَعْدَ أُمِّ الْهَيْثَمِ ...
فَعَطَفَ الْإِقْفَارَ عَلَى الْإِقْوَاءِ وَهُوَ هُوَ.
About this surah
Madani · order 87
Summary
Al-Baqarah (the Cow) has been so named from the story of the Cow occurring in this Surah (67-73). It has not, however, been used as a title to indicate the subject of the Surah. It will, therefore, be as wrong to translate the name Al-Baqarah into "The Cow" or "The Heifer" as to translate any English name, say Mr. Baker, Mr. Rice, Mr. Wolf etc., into their equivalents in other languages or vice versa, because this would imply that the Surah dealt with the subject of "The Cow". Many more Surahs of the Quran have been named in the same way because no comprehensive words exist in Arabic (in spite of its richness) to denote the wide scope of the subject discussed in them. As a matter of fact all human languages suffer from the same limitation.
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