The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 34
CH. 10 YŪNUS PT. 11 earth receives its ornature and looks beautiful and its owners النَّاسُ وَالْاَنْعَامُ حَتَّى إِذَا أَخَذَتِ then there mingles with it the produce of the earth, of which الْأَرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا وَازَّيَّنَتْ وَظَنُّ men and cattle eat till, when the أَهْلُهَا أَنَّهُمْ قُدِرُونَ عَلَيْهَا أَتُهَا أَمْرُنَا لَيْلًا أَوْ نَهَارًا فَجَعَلْنَهَا حَصِيدًا to it Our كَأَن لَّمْ تَغْنَ بِالْأَمْسِ كَذَلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ command by night or by day think that they have power over it, "there comes and We render it a field that is mown down, as if nothing had existed there the day before. Thus do We expound the Signs for a people who reflect. 1300 1300. Important Words: Jašaŋk UmvųjŠIŠK "3:118. 11:69. (a field that is mown down) is derived from meaning, he reaped or cut with the scythe seed-produce or plants or herbage. They say i. e. he mowed them down with the sword; he slew them; he exerted his utmost power or exceeded ordinary bounds in slaying them; he exterminated them with the sword. The Arab proverb means, حصیل , he who sows evil reaps regret. means, reaped seed-produce; grain that is reaped; seed-produce torn up and carried away by the wind; slain or mown down with the sword, like seed-produce when reaped. means, time or season of reaping; what remains on the ground after the crop has been reaped; what falls off and becomes scattered of the seed- produce (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: الْأَيْتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ causes likened here to rainwater. The verse purports to say that when rain descends from heaven, it various kinds of vegetation to grow. Some of them are useful for man and others for animals. But man, instead of ascribing this to the favour of God, looks upon it as the fruit of his own industry and skill. When, however, in consequence of his pride and vanity, a sudden visitation from God destroys all the produce of the earth, he cannot prevent or delay its destruction, let alone possess the power to produce it which he so vaingloriously claimed to have. The moral of the parable is that when nations become proud and vain, i. e. when they take life lightly, their decline sets in and they come to grief. Water in this verse may also be taken to stand for the word of God. In this sense, the verse would mean that the word of God brings about mighty The life of this world has been changes in the life of those who 1242