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The Camel
الإبل
In the Quran
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلۡإِبِلِ كَيۡفَ خُلِقَتۡ ١٧ “Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created”
Translation of the meaning · Saheeh International
The word for “camel” occurs 11 times in 11 verses · Quranic Arabic Corpus lemma count
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وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيۡفَ رُفِعَتۡ ١٨ “And at the sky - how it is raised”
Translation of the meaning · Saheeh International
Commentary · al-Tabari (d. 310 AH)
Jami' al-Bayan 'an Ta'wil Ay al-Quran · جامع البيان عن تأويل آي القرآن88:17
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل فيعتبرون بها، ويعلمون أن القُدرة التي قدر بها على خلقها، لن يُعجزه خلق ما شابهها.Reviewer's summary (not a translation)
Will they not look at the camels and take a lesson from them, and know that the power by which He created them is not unable to create what resembles them? (Researcher's paraphrase of al-Tabari.)
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Explanation (not Quran text)
The Quran asks whether people will not look at the camel and how it was created (88:17), and in the same breath turns their gaze to the sky and how it was raised high (88:18). Al-Tabari explains the invitation: look at the camel, take a lesson from it, and recognise the power that created it.
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