Fig and olive

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تين

Tīn

Topic

Chapter 95, “The Fig”, swears by the fig and the olive, and by Mount Sinai and the safe city of Mecca.

What it means

“By the fig and the olive, and Mount Sinai, and this secure city” (95:1–3). The oaths are by places of prophets: the fig and olive lands of Syria-Palestine, where Jesus lived, Sinai, where Moses spoke with God, and Mecca. The chapter goes on to say that humanity was created in “the best form” (95:4).