🍇 We clearly recognize the sinfulness and ingratitude involved in taking beautiful, nutritious, delicious grapes and turning them into destructive intoxicants, but do we recognize our own misuse of blessings just as clearly? These verses remind me of our speech. Allah has given us a mind, vocal cords, a mouth, a tongue, teeth, lips...but how do we use these blessings? Do we produce pure speech? Or do we create something destructive? Do we recogn...
Theres a popular saying that goes, 'If life gives you lemons, make lemonade'. This ayah reminds of the exact opposite scenario: when some people are given grapes (sweet and nourishing), they turn them into intoxicants (foul and destructive).
Can you think of examples in the Quran, Islamic History, or in your life where someone was given 'lemons (sour circumstances)' and they were able to turn them into something good/pleasant?
Al-Baghawi mentions how this practice of burying one’s infant daughter took place in his Tafseer (2/619): When an Arab man would have a daughter, and he wanted to let her live, he would dress her in a robe made of wool or hair and would leave her in the desert for the camels and sheep to graze. If he wanted to kill her, he would wait until she was six years old and then say to her mother: 'Dress her up so that I can take her to marry her off.'...