Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 35 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 35

Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 35 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 35 Translation

Surah Al-Baqarah

Verse 35

2:35 Al-Baqarah

☘️Allāh (the Most-High) then says – informing us of what He honoured Ādam with – and it is an honour for us: After he ordered the angels to perform sujūd to him, and they prostrated except for Iblīs, He made permissible for them al-Jannah (Paradise), to dwell therein wherever he pleases, and eat therefrom whatever he pleases in vast, pleasant, enjoyable abundance. He said:

وَقُلْنَا يَا آدَمُ اسْكُنْ أَنْتَ وَزَوْجُكَ الْجَنَّةَ وَكُلَا مِنْهَا رَغَدًا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَٰذِهِ الشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ

And We said, “O Ādam, dwell you and your wife in Paradise, and eat from it raġadā (in abundance) from wherever you desire. But do not approach this shajarah (tree), lest you be among the ṭhālimīn (wrongdoers)” (Al-Baqarah 2:35)

Surah Baqarah Verse 35

☘️O Ādam, dwell you and your wife in Paradise: Take it as an abode and home, and make it a place of sukūn (السكون - tranquillity), for a suknā (السكنى - residence) is from sukūn, because it is a form of remaining and settlement. And eat from it raġadā (in abundance): Meaning from its vast (blessings). 

☘️From wherever you desire: Whatever you desire, if you desire. No accounting will take place against you.

☘️But do not approach this tree: Do not circulate around it by eating from it. Indeed, He forbade going near it, because going near it leads to acquisition. So our Lord severed the first step that leads to disobedience. If a person takes a step, it will be followed by additional steps. Disobedience is a shut door. 

☘️Among the ṭhālimīn (wrongdoers): Those who disobey and place the commands of Allāh (the Mighty and Majestic) other than where they should be placed. And from the ṭhālimīn who wrong themselves in disobedience. And from the ṭhālimīn who transgressed the prohibition. 

☘️Allāh (majestic be His praise) informed His servants that Ādam and his wife ate from the tree. Which he forbidden them from eating from. Allāh (majestic be His praise) made clear to them the specific tree He forbade them from eating from. He pointed it out to them with His saying, “But do not approach this tree.” 

☘️So Allāh (majestic be His praise) forbade Ādam and his wife from eating from a specific tree from the trees of Paradise – singled out from amongst all its other trees. But they went against what He had forbidden them from and ate from it, just as Allāh (majestic be His praise) detailed. And we have no knowledge of which tree it was that was specified, because Allāh did not place an evidence for this in the Qur’ān, nor in the authentic sunnah.

🔮The true obedience to Allah SWT and true worship of him involves following the commands and prohibitions of Allah SWT.

💎I ask Allah SWT to help us follow his commands and to not go against them, Aameen.

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