Reviewing the Reason of Permission to Cut the Trees of the Jewish Arab Tribe of Bani Nasir in the Fifth Verse of the Surah Al-Hashr (with Emphasis on the Doubts Criticism)

The study of the subject of cutting the trees of the Jewish Arab tribe of Bani Nasir in the fifth verse of the surah Al-Hashr is a controversial matter in the area of jurisprudence and interpretation. Some people, relying on the appearance of the aforementioned verse, casted doubts on “confirming the oppression in the Holy Quran”. The jurists and the exegetes, understanding the doubt, have proposed different analyses about that. The present article, using a content descriptive-analytical method, tries to review the different views of the scholars about cutting the trees of the Jewish Arab tribe of Bani Nasir. The results show that the jurisprudential matter of cutting the trees in the fifth verse of the surah Al-Hashr is “property jihad” which is allowed by both the reason and the Divine Law; therefore, the real controversy in this matter between the necessity to preserve the property and the necessity of jihad is to abase the evildoers. Since jihad guarantees the human life, it precedes the preservation of the property. In addition, the analysis of some jurists that everything on which the preservation of Islam stands is lawful is against the absoluteness of the verses on the unlawfulness of oppression and outrage, is considered corruption, and is not accepted.