The Quran sets forth parables of every kind as a reminder and a lesson, and these verses show their purpose. Among them are the parables of the disbeliever and his deeds, of powerless idols, of the believer and the disbeliever, of worldly life, of those who spend in Allah’s cause, of the good and the evil word, and of the light of Allah, to whom belongs the highest example.
Verses gathered from a topical index of the Quran, in Mushaf order; every verse is quoted in full.
Have you not considered how Allāh presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky?