Vertaling van de betekenissen Vers 260 Surah Soerat Albaqarah (De Koe) - Engelse Vertaling - Dr. Walid Bleyhesh Al-Omari - The Heilige Qur'an Encyclopedie

Vers: 260

وَإِذۡ قَالَ إِبۡرَٰهِـۧمُ رَبِّ أَرِنِي كَيۡفَ تُحۡيِ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰۖ قَالَ أَوَلَمۡ تُؤۡمِنۖ قَالَ بَلَىٰ وَلَٰكِن لِّيَطۡمَئِنَّ قَلۡبِيۖ قَالَ فَخُذۡ أَرۡبَعَةٗ مِّنَ ٱلطَّيۡرِ فَصُرۡهُنَّ إِلَيۡكَ ثُمَّ ٱجۡعَلۡ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ جَبَلٖ مِّنۡهُنَّ جُزۡءٗا ثُمَّ ٱدۡعُهُنَّ يَأۡتِينَكَ سَعۡيٗاۚ وَٱعۡلَمۡ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٞ

(260) ˹Or˺ When Ibrāhīm said: “My Lord, show me how you bring the dead to life”. He ˹Allah˺ said: “Did you not Believe!” He said: “Beyond doubt! But that so that my heart will be reassured”^[462]. ˹To this he was replied˺ “Take you then four birds, hold them to you (and cut them to pieces^[463]), then, on every mountain, put a portion of them. Then call them and they will come hurrying to you. And know that Allah is All-Prevailing, All-Wise”.

[462] The Patriarch of Prophets, Abraham, had no doubt whatsoever in his mind about God’s ability to resurrect the dead. This is what the Prophet (ﷺ) implied by saying: “We are more likely to doubt than Ibrāhīm” (al-Bukhārī: 4537, Muslim: 151), when he heard that people said Abraham doubted. Scholars are of the opinion that Abraham wanted to reach the highest rank of knowledge, the so-called ‘concrete certitude’ (ḥaqq al-yaqīn), which comes with actually seeing and living through an experience (cf. al-Wāḥidī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr). Ibn al-Qayyim has it that: “Knowledge is of three ranks: firm knowledge (ʿilm al-yaqīn) which comes with receiving news: then, what is being told becomes evident to the sight and heart and knowledge becomes exact knowledge (ʿayn al-yaqīn), and when it is touched and felt it becomes concrete certitude (ḥaqq al-yaqīn) (Madārij al-Sālikīn, 1: 469). So Abraham, the beloved of God, knowing that God was likely to grant him his wish, wanted to actually see resurrection in action.
[463] In accordance with al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī citing many scholars.