Al-Baqarah 2:7
Al-Baqarah 2:25
Al-Baqarah 2:29
Al-Baqarah 2:183
Al-Baqarah 2:220
Al-Baqarah 2:222
Al-Baqarah 2:223
Al-i-'Imran 3:3-4
Al-i-'Imran 3:7
Al-i-'Imran 3:28
Al-i-'Imran 3:84
Al-i-'Imran 3:178
An-Nisa' 4:3
An-Nisa' 4:16
An-Nisa' 4:48
An-Nisa' 4:51
An-Nisa' 4:59
Al-Maidah 5:5
Al-Araf 7:3
Al-Araf 7:26
Al-Araf 7:38
Al-Araf 7:46
Al-Araf 7:54
Al-Araf 7:73
Al-Anfal 8:1
Al-Anfal 8:19
Al-Anfal 8:48
At-Tawbah 9:5
At-Tawbah 9:20
Yusuf 12:4
Yusuf 12:6
Yusuf 12:52
Ar-Ra‘d 13:2
Ar-Ra‘d 13:16
Ar-Ra‘d 13:27
Al-Hijr 15:9
Al-Hijr 15:15
Al-Hijr 15:44
Al-Hijr 15:73
Al-Hijr 15:87
An-Nahl 16:8
An-Nahl 16:15
An-Nur 24:33
As-Saba 34:10
As-Saba 34:11
Az-Zumar 39:10
Az-Zumar 39:12
Az-Zumar 39:18
Az-Zumar 39:23
Al-Mu'min 40:7-8
Fussilat 41:9
Fussilat 41:11
Fussilat 41:33
Fussilat 41:34
Fussilat 41:51
Muhammad 47:2
Al-Fath 48:1
Ad-Dhariat 51:21
An-Najm 53:38
Ar-Rahman 55:33
Ar-Rahman 55:35
Al-Waqiah 56:75
Al-Mujadilah 58:11
Al-Mursalat 77:33
An-Naba 78:14
An-Naba 78:33
An-Naziat 79:1
Al-Inshiqaq 84:6
At-Tariq 86:1
At-Tariq 86:7
Al-Ghashiyah 88:17
Al-Balad 90:1
Al-Balad 90:13
Al-Adiyat 100:1-5
Al-Adiyat 100:6-8
Al-Adiyat 100:9-11
Al-Qaria'ah 101:9
Al-Asr
Al-Kauthar


77:33 “as if they were yellow camels.”

77:33 The purpose of the imagery used in this section is to stress upon impossibility and absurdity of sinners getting entry into the paradise. The word jimalah is the plural form of jamal (lit. camel). The word sufr is plural of asfar meaning something yellow or tawny in color. Asad strongly rejected the use of camel as the imagery, instead suggested ‘rope’ as the intended meaning. In the Bible in Luke 18:25 the impossibility and absurdity of sinners to enter the paradise is mentioned in Jesus’s word as: for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (cf. Mark 10:25; Matthew 19:24). The same metaphor is echoed in 7:40 as door of the heaven will not be opened for them, nor will they enter the Garden until the camel passes through the eye of a needle. In this verse jamal means camel, not ropes. To interpret jimalah as ‘ropes’ or ‘twisted ropes’ misses, if not impossibility of the proposition, the absurdity implied in the metaphor. 

 

 

 

 
     

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