Regret of the Sinners: Reflections on the Day of Judgment
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Indeed We have tried them We have tested the people of Mecca with drought and famine just as We tried the owners of the garden the orchard when they vowed that they would pluck that they would pick it...
And they did not make any exception to their vow for God’s will the sentence is a new syntactically independent one in other words and that was their condition.
Then a visitation from your Lord visited it that is a fire consumed it during the night while they slept.
So by the morning it was like the darkness of night in other words black.
They then called out to one another in the morning
saying ‘Go forth early to your tillage your produce ani’ghdū ‘alā harthikum constitutes an explication of the import of tanādaw ‘they called out to one another’; otherwise an relates to the verbal act...
So off they went whispering to one another talking secretly
‘No needy person shall today come to you in it’ this constitutes the explication of the preceding verse; or else an relates to the verbal action to be understood to mean bi-an.
And they went forth early supposing themselves able to prohibit to prevent the poor folk from enjoying the fruit.
But when they saw it blackened and charred they said ‘Assuredly we have strayed!’ from it that is to say this is not the one. Then when they recognised it they said
‘Nay but we have been deprived!’ of its fruits by our denying it to the poor folk.
The most moderate the best one among them said ‘Did I not say to you “Why do you not glorify?” ’ God repenting to Him.
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Ibn Kathir Commentary
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Regret of the Sinners: Reflections on the Day of Judgment
قَالُواْ سُبْحَـنَ رَبّنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَـلِمِينَ- فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ يَتَلَـوَمُونَ- قَالُواْ يوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَـغِينَ- عَسَى رَبُّنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْراً مّنْهَآ إِنَّآ إِلَى رَبّنَا رغِبُونَ- كَذَلِكَ الْعَذَابُ وَلَعَذَابُ الاْخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ لَوْ كَانُواْ يَعْلَمُونَ-