As –habay al-kahf - wa – Al raqeem
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There was a garden containing different types of fruits and vegetation.People who cared after the garden vowed between themselves during the night that they would pluck the fruit of the
garden
in the morning so that poor and the beggars would not know what they were doing. In this way they would be able to keep its fruit for themselves and not give any of it in charity.
Therefore, Allah broke their vow. As a punishment there passed over it a Ta'if from Lord while they were asleep. It was afflicted with some heavenly destruction.
By the morning it became like As-Sarim. "Like the dark night.''
Ibn `Abbas
"Like the crop when it is harvested withered and dry.''
Ath-Thawri and As-Suddi
when it was early morning time they called each other so that they could go together to pick the harvest or cut its fruits. They wanted to pluck their harvest fruits.'
So they departed, and they spoke privately about what they were doing so that no one could hear what they were saying. Then Allah, the All-Knower of secrets discussions, explained what they were saying in private.
They were whispering: "No poor person shall enter upon you into it today.'' some of them said to others, "Do not allow any poor person to enter upon you in the garden today.
And they went in the morning with Hard meaning, with strength and power.They thought they had power to do what they claimed and what they were desiring.
But when they arrived at garden and came upon it, and it was in the condition which Allah changed from that luster, brilliance and fruit, to being black, gloomy and void of any benefit. They believed that they had been mistaken in the path they took in walking to it.
They said, `we have walked down a path other than the one we were seeking to reach it. Then they changed their minds and realized with certainty that it was actually the correct path.
Then they said,
Nay! Indeed we are deprived of the fruits `nay, this is it, but we have no portion and no share of harvest.'
Then they started blaming each other for what they had resolved to do, preventing the poor people from receiving their right of the harvested fruit. Thus, their response to each other was only to confess their sin.
These people were from Yemen.They were from a village that was called Darawan which was six miles from San`a' . Their father used to handle the garden in a good way. Whatever he reaped from it he would put it back into the garden as it needed, and he would save some of it as food for his dependants for the year, and he would give away the excess in charity. Then, when he died, and his children inherited the garden they said, `Verily, our father was foolish for giving some of this garden's harvest to the poor. If we prevent them from it, then we will have more.' So when they made up their minds to do this they were punished . Allah took away all of what they possessed of wealth . Nothing remained for them.''
It was the punishment of whoever opposes the command of Allah.
to them. But they met him with denial, rejection and opposition.Then Allah gave an example of the people of garden who were also disbelievers like Quraysh. And mentioned their punishment in"
Al-qalam :17 to 28
Al-Qalam : 29 to 33
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