Yâ Sîn
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[36:80]
He who produces for you fire out of the green tree, so that, lo! you kindle [your fires] therewith."

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* v.80 : Cf. the ancient Arabian proverb, “In every tree there is a fire” (Zamakhsharī): evidently an allusion to the metamorphosis of green – i e., water-containing – plants into fuel, be it through desiccation or man-made carbonization (charcoal), or by a millennial, subterranean process of decomposition into oil or coal. In a spiritual sense, this “fire” seems also to symbolize the God-given warmth and light of human reason spoken of in verse 77 above.