Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ibrahim, Ayah 24
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Have you not seen observed how God has struck a similitude? mathalan is substituted by the following words kalimatan tayyibatan a goodly saying which is ‘there is no god but God’ is as a goodly tree a palm tree its root set firm in the ground and its shoots its branches are in heaven;
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Seest thou you not) have you not been informed, O Muhammad, (how Allah coineth a similitude: A goodly saying) He says: how Allah has exposited the description of a goodly saying which is " there is no god save Allah " , (as a goodly tree) which is the believer, (its root set firm) He says: the heart of the sincere believer is firm by means of " there is no god save Allah " , (its branches reaching into heaven) He says: due to it the works of a sincere believer are accepted,