(October 15, 2018 at 11:36 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Remember also, "tree" is used a metaphor through out Quran, for example the example of a blessed word, also the light verse says it's lit from a blessed olive tree, neither east nor west, and so on and so forth.
No. A tree is not a metaphor in here also; this is the original verse:
Quote:Sura 24, The Quran:
Sahih International
(35) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things.
When you "kindle" something using a "tree"; then you used the "tree" as a source of fuel.
Ancient people knew that, and obviously there was many ancient sources for fire including wood from trees or oil from trees (like the one mentioned in this verse) and also "coal"; also "stone", even "people".
