hope is the thing with feathers

Birds in the Holy Quran


Yusuf Ali

… to the Children of Israel, (with this message): “‘I have come to you, with … , as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and … quicken the dead, by Allah’s leave; and I declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your houses. Surely therein is … quran

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

… constant passing of hands over it. Among these [signs] are the fact that the reward for good deeds is multiplied in it and that birds never fly over it; and whoever enters it is in security, not liable therein to be killed or oppressed or otherwise. It is …  Quran

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

… that is, for the sake of His religion, as dead, but rather, that they are, living with their Lord, their spirits inside green birds that take wing freely wherever they wish in Paradise, as reported in a hadīth); provided for [by Him], with the fruits …

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