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=== The Lote Tree of the utmost Boundary (Sid'rati al-Muntaha) === | |||
Different to the tree of eternity/immortality ''(shajarati ul-khul'di)'' in paradise ''jannah,'' the Qur'an mentions The Lote Tree (Sidr) of the utmost boundary (al-munthaa) (cite LL), a real type of tree (Ziziphus spina-christi)[1], near (but not in) the 'garden of abode', said to be 'covered' yaghshā by something unspecified in (Q53:16), typically taken by exegetes to mean by angels, light and/or golden animals [2] | |||
Near (the) Lote Tree (of) the utmost boundary, Q53:14 (<nowiki>https://quranx.com/Tafsirs/53.14</nowiki>) <<nowiki>https://quranx.com/53.14</nowiki>> | |||
Near it (is the) Garden (of) Abode. 15 | |||
when there covered the Lote Tree what covered it. 16 <nowiki>https://quranx.com/Tafsirs/53.16</nowiki> From <<nowiki>https://quranx.com/53.16</nowiki>> | |||
Not swerved the sight and not it transgressed. | |||
This furthest boundary/limit is said in the hadith to place the cosmic tree in the sixth heaven, where even celestial creatures cannot go beyond; said to be seen by Muhammad in his Night Journey (mi’rāj) on the Buraq (link page) . See <nowiki>https://sunnah.com/muslim:173</nowiki>, :<nowiki>https://quranx.com/hadiths/53.16</nowiki> & <nowiki>https://sunnah.com/nasai:451</nowiki> | |||
<nowiki>https://sunnah.com/mishkat:5865</nowiki> | |||
<nowiki>https://sunnah.com/mishkat:5640</nowiki> | |||
Similarly seen next to the 4 main Near-East rivers (Nile, Euphratesm Tigres,) <nowiki>https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5610</nowiki>, which area said to flow from paradise: <nowiki>https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-5/Book-58/Hadith-227/</nowiki> | |||
Supporting the idea that paradise is on the top of or in the seventh heaven, cite: [https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/107126/the-location-of-paradise-now#:~:text=Paradise%20that%20Allaah%20promised%20for,are%20many%20texts%20proving%20this. https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/107126/the-location-of-paradise-now#:~:text=Paradise%20that%20Allaah%20promised%20for,are%20many%20texts%20proving%20this.] | |||
" Jannat al-ma'va' literally means "the Jannat (Garden) that is to be an abode. " Hadrat Hasan Basri says that this is the same Jannat which the believers and righteous will be given in the Hereafter, and from this same verse he has argued that that Jannat is in the heavens. Qatadah says that this is the Jannat in which the souls of the martyrs are kept; it does not imply the Jannat that is to be given in the Hereafter. Ibn 'Abbas also says the same but adds that the Jannat to be granted to the believers in the Hereafter is not in the heavens but here on the earth. | |||
No evidence of celestial tree, an example of tree mythology. [[Trees in mythology|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees_in_mythology]] | |||
== Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature - Part 2 == | == Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature - Part 2 == | ||
Following on from [[Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature|Part 1]], this is Part 2 of Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature found in the Qur'an. This material, drawing heavily on rabbinical commentaries on the bible, and late Syriac Christian thought found in homilies, was created far later than the biblical cannon; no-where near the time of the events that occurred. This suggests the stories were transmitted in an oral millennia along with local Arabian traditions<ref>Bannister, Andrew G.. ''An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur'an (Kindle Location 249-259 in Chapter 1.2 The Biblicist Roots of the Iblis and Adam Story).'' Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition. | Following on from [[Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature|Part 1]], this is Part 2 of Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature found in the Qur'an. This material, drawing heavily on rabbinical commentaries on the bible, and late Syriac Christian thought found in homilies, was created far later than the biblical cannon; no-where near the time of the events that occurred. This suggests the stories were transmitted in an oral millennia along with local Arabian traditions<ref>Bannister, Andrew G.. ''An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur'an (Kindle Location 249-259 in Chapter 1.2 The Biblicist Roots of the Iblis and Adam Story).'' Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition. | ||