26 Preface وَمَثَلُ كَلِمَةٍ خَبيثَةٍ كَشَجَرَةٍ خَبيثَةٍ اجتُثَّت مِن فَوقِ الأَرضِ ما لَها مِن قَرارٍYusuf AliAnd the parable of an evil Word is that of an evil tree: It is torn up by the root from the surface of the earth: it has no stability.1The evil tree is the opposite of the goodly tree. The parallelism of contrast can be followed out in all the details of the last note.