الأعراف
Al-A'raf
Surah 7
Verse 20
الأعراف
The Heights • makkah
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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
English - Five Volume Translation
English - Short Commentary Translation
English - Topics
7:20
وَيَٰٓـَٔادَمُ ٱسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ فَكُلَا مِنْ حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
‘And O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in the garden and eat therefrom wherever you will, but approach not this tree lest you be among the wrongdoers.’
English - Five Volume Translation
English - Short Commentary Translation
‘And [b]O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden[955A] and eat therefrom wherever you will,[956] but approach not this tree[957] lest you be among the wrongdoers,’
2:38; 20:118.
See {68}.
This shows that every thing is lawful, except what may be forbidden as being harmful physically or spiritually.
"Forbidden tree" may also signify commandments whereby certain things were forbidden to Adam and his wife. "Good word" has been likened to "good tree" in the Qur’an (14:25) and evil word to "evil tree" (14:27).