A042
Surah: 068 - Ayah: 042
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68:42
The ta'wil of shin (saq) Is the Intellect, as God says: "The Day that the shin shall be laid bare and they (disbelievers) will be summoned to prostrate themselves but will not be able (to prostrate)" (68:42) That is to say, where and when the light of the Intellect will manifest and the disbelievers will be summoned to obey, they will not be able to obey. A shin is also mentioned with refrence to Queen Sheba, as God says: "It was said unto her: Enter the palace. And when she saw it she deemed it a pool and bared her legs" (27:44). That Is to say, that when she saw the light of intellect, she tried to understand it instantly with the external and Internal aspects of her particular Intellect and all at once tried to assess its depth to cross It, but her conjecture was wrong. The third mention of the leg is in the verse (75:29-30), in which is mentioned the death of animal soul: "And one leg will be joined with another; unto thy Lord that day will be the driving". In this verse, in tanzil, the physical death is mentioned, but in ta'wil there is the mention of spiritual death, in which the external intellect is joined with the internal intellect.
This verse has been referred 3 times.