Al Quran Chapter 14 Verses 24-26

I am studying the following verses from The Book.

These are the translation of the verses (please see them in the original Arabic language).

Verse 24
Have you not regarded how Allah has drawn a parable?
A good word is like a good tree:
its roots are steady and its branches are in the sky.

Verse 25
It gives its fruit every season by the leave of its Lord.
Allah draws these parables for mankind so that they may take admonition.

Verse 26
And the parable of a bad word is that of a bad tree: uprooted from the ground, it has no stability.

The above translations is by Ali Quli Qara'i.

Items of note

- In verse 24, the word mathalan is used. A literal translation of this word seems to be Example.

- Ali Quli, rightly so, added another degree of preciseness to his translation and used the word parable (def: a statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like).

- The word similitude (def: a likening or comparison in the form of a simile, parable, or allegory) is also a good replacement.

- The second important word in verse 24 it Kalimatan Tayyibatan (short form: Kalima tayyiba). A literal translation would be 'a good word'.

- There's been some dispute on the meaning of the good word.

- Some believe that the good word here is referring to the shahādat (lā illāha illā llāh) witnessing Allah and his messenger.

- Some of the Sunnis have speculated that the verse good tree is probably a date palm tree. And the whole verses might be referring so someone's good deeds that may reach up high to the heaven. Yes, this does sound extremely speculative.

- Al-Zamakhshari, the Mutazila scholar, said the good word is tawhid with all the attributes of God.

- Al-Razi rejected the tree (mentioned here) as the palm tree.

- In the Shia commentary by al-Kashi, he narrated a hadith by the sixth Imam, where the good tree is Ahle Muhammad, Imam Ali and his descendents. The Holy Prophet is the root, Imam Ali is the trunk and his descendents are the branches of knowledge or its fruits.

- Furthermore, the bad tree in the verse 26 is referring to the Umayad.