do the people of the towns feel secure from Our punishment...
do the people of the towns feel secure from Our punishment coming upon them in daylight while they are playing?” It is evident that whoever is busy with the mere affairs of this world and does not heed the affairs of Hereafter is in vain and, as if, he is playing around. The purpose of the Qur’ānic phrase ‘the people of the towns’ is any group of people who are busy with some useless affairs, and who reject divine prophets, and they refrain worshipping One God.
The occasion of revelation of these two verses, of course, was the obstinacies of the pagans of Mecca. Surah al-‘Araf , Verse 99 أَفَاَمِنُوا مَكْرَ اللّهِ فَلا يَأْمَنُ مَكْرَ اللّهِ إِلاَّ الْقَوْمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ 99 ***. “What! Do they then feel secure from…
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