Tafsir for verse: 16:65
وَٱللَّهُ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءٗ فَأَحۡيَا بِهِ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ بَعۡدَ مَوۡتِهَآۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗ لِّقَوۡمٖ يَسۡمَعُونَ ٦٥ ﴿65
65Allah sent down water from the heavens and revived the land with it after it was dead. Surely, in that there is a sign for a people who listen.
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Commentary

And when the evidence concluded that their hearts were in denial out of arrogance; and what relates to it; He concluded it with what He revived the hearts with, through faith; and knowledge; after their death through disbelief; and ignorance; and the greatest intended purpose of the Qur'an was to establish four fundamental principles: divine matters; prophethood; resurrection; and the affirmation of destiny and fate; and action by choice; and the most noble of these purposes is divine matters; He began with the evidence of oneness; and power; and action by choice; which necessitates the ability to resurrect; in a manner that is not prior; so that it may be known that the evidence for that is more than the leaves of trees; and clearer than the brightness of the day; so He turned to His saying: "And Allah knows what you conceal and what you declare" [An-Nahl: 19]; His saying - gathering in evidence between the upper world; and the lower world -: "And Allah"; meaning: the One to whom belongs all command; "He sends down from the heavens"; at the time He wills; "water"; with rain; and snow; and hail; "and He revives the earth"; the dry; and when His habit with that is continuous; and the context is to affirm the foundations of religion; and the revival with water still has its effect in crops; or trees; in some lands; it stripped the context of the neighbor; because the meaning therein is more eloquent; so He said: "after its death"; with dryness; and barrenness; and the disintegration of the plants fundamentally; and at the root.

And when what He established upon that in this surah from the evidences has reached a limit that the rational listener does not need with it to hear more than what has been heard; He said (the Exalted): "Indeed, in that"; the water that has an effect; by His management; this great effect; "is a sign for a people who listen"; this indication in this style that includes what has passed from the analogy; so they may know that He sends down from His command what He wills; and He revives with it the bodies of the servants; after their death; just as He revived the bodies of the plants with water; after their death; and the souls of the spirits with knowledge; after their death; and the result is that these evidences do not require with the senses a great effort of the heart; other than submission to the truth; and abandoning obstinacy and ignorance; for it is from the hearing of the ear; and what arises from it of the response; using the thing in its reality and metaphor; and perhaps He did not conclude it with "they see"; so that it would not be assumed that this is from insight; and it would be thought that it requires a great deal of thought; thus missing what was intended from the indication of the clarity.

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