The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5)

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PT. 29 AL-QALAM 27. But when they saw it, they said, 'Surely, we have lost our way!' 28. ‘Nay, we have been deprived of all our fruit. '4324 CH. 68 فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَاتُوْنَ ) بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ ) قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا ,The best among them said. 29 'Did I not say to you, "Why do you not glorify God?”” 30. Thereupon, they said, 'Glory be to our Lord. Surely, we have been wrongdoers. ' تُسَبِّحُونَ قَالُوا سُبُحْنَ رَبَّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظُلِمِينَ state فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُوْنَ Then some of them turned. 31 to the others, reproaching one another. 32. They said, 'Woe to us! We were indeed rebellious against God. ' 33. 'Maybe, if we repent, our Lord will give us instead a better garden than this; we do humbly entreat our Lord. '4325 قَالُوا يُوَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا طَغِيْنَ عَسَى رَبُّنَا أَنْ يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا إِنَّا إِلَى from others or he forsook his people these (Lane). Commentary: The exploiters of the labour of others are a class by themselves. They seek and scheme to debar the latter from the benefits of what they earn by the sweat of their brow. They revel in wealth, while the poor grovel in dirt and squalor before their very eyes. 4324. Commentary: رَبَّنَا رَغِبُونَ their exploiters and contrivances to deprive others of the fruit of their labour fail altogether in their purpose. 4325. Commentary: The parable of the owners of the "garden" may apply also to the leaders of the Quraish who had made life very miserable for the poor Muslims. They were sternly warned that all their designs against Islam would come to nought and all their efforts would prove abortive and they Sooner or later nemesis overtakes would be deprived of all their gardens 3201