THE RESURRECTION OF ENERGY

 The more we ponder over the above verse, we may extract more versions of meanings. As a matter of fact, many of the Quränic verses include several meanings. Some of them are simple for common people's understanding, for all ages, and places; and some are very deep, and the learned and scholars understand them. Meanwhile, the various meanings are not contrary to one another! The above verse is among the complex ones with manifold of meanings.

      The first meaning that we may point to is the method by which the primitive Arabs were kindling their fires. They use two pieces of wood from two kinds of tree that they called, ``MARKH'' and ``AFÄR''.

      They moved and rubbed one over the ther, and a spark was produced, by which they lit their fire. This was just like a flint or a piece of quartz which strikes fire with steel. This means, was used instead of our present day's matches, among Arabs in the Pagan Era, and hence:-

      ``He Who made for you fire out of a green tree, and from it you kindle your fire.''

      The second meaning that we may apprehend from the verse is that, Allah Who produces fire from water is He Who produces life out of death!

PRODUCING FIRE FROM WATER

      To the ancients and the alchemists, the fire, Earth, Water, and Air, were the four elements from which all matter was made. However this did not prove to be right later. Now scientists define fire as any chemical process, commonly the union of substances with oxygen accompanied by evolution of light and heat. The main factors of kindling a fire is oxygen and fuel. Today we all know that water is a chemical compound with two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen in each of its molecules; and it is formed by direct reaction of hydrogen with oxygen. Primitive man had learned to make fire by friction of two substances, like two pieces of wood, or a flint and a piece of steel, even though he had no highly inflammable liquid at his disposal.

      A very common way of obtaining fire and heat is by the chemical action that takes place when a fuel like coal, oil, or natural gas, burnes. All these combustible substances have a definite kindling temperature at which they will burst into flame.

WHY GREEN TREE!?

      Why does the verse speak of green tree for lighting a fire and not a dry tree or wood that burnes easier!?

      It might be due to the fact that the green tree is able to catch carbon, and to emit oxygen, and by such chemical processes store up some of the sun's energy, where as a dry and dead tree cannot do that.

      This process also illustrates the resurrection or revival of energy too.

      Any how, although kindling a fire seems to be very simple a matter to us, it really is one of the most wonderful phenomenon in the nature, the process of which is vital for the life of creatures upon the earth.