By the fig and the olive that is the two edible foods — or these denote the names of two mountains in Syria on which these two foods grow —

and by the Mount Sinai the mountain on which God exalted be He spoke to Moses sīnīn means ‘the one blessed’ or ‘the fair one with fruitful trees’

and by this secure land Mecca as people were secure in it in the time of pagandom and are still secure in it in Islam.

Verily We created man al-insān the generic in the best of forms in the best proportioning of his shape.

Then in the case of certain individuals of his species We reduced him to the lowest of the low — a metaphor for old age and weakness at which point a believer’s deeds are fewer than when he was young; but he will still have his reward as God exalted be He says

except those who believe and perform righteous deeds for they shall have an unfailing reward one unending — in a hadīth it is stated ‘When a believer reaches that stage of old age which prevents him from performing good deeds then what he used to do is recorded in his favour instead’.

So what makes you deny O disbeliever thereafter — after the mention of man being created in the best of forms and his being reduced to the vilest of age all of which indicates the power of God to resurrect — the Judgement? the Requital that will be preceded by the Resurrection and the Reckoning. In other words what makes you disbelieve in all this? Nothing does!

Is not God the fairest of all judges? the most just of all judges. His passing judgement by means of the process of requital is one such example. In a hadīth it is stated ‘Whoever recites sūrat wa’l-tīni ‘By the fig’ to the end of it let him then say “Yes Indeed! And I am of those who bear witness to this!” ’