As-salaam wa-alaikum, brothers and sisters.
Summary
Today’s selection is from Surah 68, Al-Qalam or the Pen, verses 17-33. These verses tell the story of the arrogant, stingy owners of a garden who did not want to pay charity.
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Verses
Bis-millahi ar-rahman, ar-raheem.
In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful.Surely We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore that they would pluck its fruit the next morning,[17] without adding any reservation ( such as God willing).[18] So a calamity from your Rabb came down upon it while they slept,[19] and by the morning it lay as if it had been already harvested.[20] At daybreak they called out to one another,[21] saying: “Go out early to your crop, if you want to pick its fruit.”[22] So they went, whispering to one another:[23] “Let no needy person enter upon you in the garden today.”[24] Thus they went out, fixed in their stingy resolve (not to give any fruit to the poor people, as if they had the full control over harvesting the fruit).[25] But when they saw the garden, they cried: “Surely we must have lost our way![26] Nay, we have become destitute.”[27] The most upright among them said: “Did I not tell you to glorify Allah? Why did you not glorify Him?”[28] Then they said: “Glory be to our Rabb! Surely we were unjust,”[29] and they started blaming one another.[30] Finally they said: “Woe to us! Surely we had become rebellious.[31] It may be that our Rabb will give us in exchange a better garden than this: surely to our Rabb do we make our humble petition.”[32] Such is the punishment in this life; but the punishment in the Hereafter is even greater, if they but knew it.[33] 68:[17-33]
Ameen.
This concludes today’s episode of the 17 Verses Podcast. I hope that this selection has helped increase your understanding of the holy Qur’an just a little bit.
Thank you and be well.