Ibrāhīm 14:27

Yuthabbitu'llāhu'lladhīna āmanū bi'l-qawli'th-thābiti fi'l-ḥayāti'd-dunyā wa fi'l-ākhirah · Wa yuḍillu'llāhu'ẓ-ẓālimīn · Wa yafʿalu'llāhu mā yashāʾ

"God makes those who believe firm with the firm word, in the life of this world and in the hereafter. God leads the wrongdoers astray. God does what He wills."

The verse comes immediately after the parable of the two trees, and it takes the root of the parable (ث-ب-ت) and gives it to the human being.

Two words from the same root: yuthabbitu (a verb, Form II — to make firm) and al-thābit (an adjective). That is, the root occurs twice in the sentence.

And with aṣluhā thābit in the twenty-fourth verse, three times.

The three occurrences carry the parable from description to ruling. I record this as a weave within the sūra, and it can be verified.

Two adverbial phrases must be recorded: the making firm spreads across two domains at once.

In the classical commentaries it is widely said that "the making firm in the hereafter" points to the questioning in the grave, and reports are transmitted to this effect. I transmit this interpretation as the widespread tendency of the tradition; I do not transmit any particular report with its source, because I do not write an attribution I am not sure of.

What the wording of the verse says is this, and I keep within it: the making firm covers both domains, and no break is set up between the two.

The block closes with this sentence, and the sentence's placing must be recorded.

I record this as an observation about the word order: the parable had been recounting an order — the root holds, the branch reaches up, the fruit comes. The last sentence of the block says that this order is not a mechanism. The tree's fruit was "by its Lord's leave" (25); at the end of the section the same idea is repeated in its most general form.