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Therefore, such comparisons imply that for example his face is fresh and luminous like the moon and only the difference is that there is decline for the moon but that person has no decline or his body has the qualities of tall stature of a date palm but his distinction is that he can walk and the date palm cannot walk. Many such kinds of examples are found in literature. In addition to poetic examples the Quran itself has such comparisons and similes.

For example when the Holy Quran gives the examples of pure and best things it says it is like a tree that bears fruits.[2] Although there is no tree that bears fruits all the year round [1] In Tafseer Minhajus Sadiqeen this reply is indicated under the commentary of the above verse ** [2]** Surah Ibrahim 15:25 or even if there is such a tree would be very rare.

Thus the implication is that this tree of goodness has a distinction over all the other trees and it is that there is no autumn for this tree and neither is there any restriction on it for bearing fruits. The Holy Quran also gives the examples of the light of Allah and says: His light is as a niche in which is a lamp [Surah Nur 24:35] In the same verse He says: the oil whereof almost gives light though fire touch it not. Though any oil, however pure it may be, does not light up without fire.

Actually it is a distinction which is given as a simile. The verse regarding which question is posed in that too the growth of the seed of Charity seventy fold is a distinction which the seed of Charity has over all the seeds of the world. Previous…