The wealthy...

The wealthy, seeing his fruitful garden; in his vanity and pride said to his companion:ِ ``I am wealthier than you, and mightier in man power; and I don't think this garden of mine will ever perish, and I don't think that the hour of Resurrection will come on; and even if I return to my Lord I will find better than these, in exchange!'' The Materialist who was puffed up with vanity and pride, thought that his power would never diminish, and looked at his friend with a contemptible eye and scornful gaze!

But he was more unjust to himself than his friend, and knew not that his vanity and pride was ruining him and all that he had. قَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُ أَكَفَرْتَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِنْ تُرَاب ثُمَّ مِنْ نُّطْفَة ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُلا(( 37 )) 37- HIS COMPANION SAID TO HIM, WHILE HE WAS ARGUING [ 641 ] WITH HIM:ِ ``HAVE YOU LOST FAITH IN HIM WHO CREATED YOU FROM SOIL, THEN FROM A SPERM-DROP; AND AFTER THAT FASHIONED YOU INTO A MAN!?

لَّكِنَّا هُوَ اللهُ رَبِّي وَلاَ أُشْرِكُ بِرَبِّي أَحَداً(( 38 )) 38- BUT AS FOR ME; ALLAH IS MY LORD, AND I WILL NOT ASSOCIATE WITH MY LORD ANY ONE. وَلَوْلاَ إِذْ دَخَلْتَ جَنَّتَكَ قُلْتَ مَا شَاءَ اللهُ لاَ قُوَّةَ إِلاَّ بِاللهِ إِنْ تَرَنِ أَنَا أَقَلَّ مِنْكَ مَالا وَوَلَداً(( 39 )) 39- WHY THEN WHEN YOU ENTERED YOUR GARDEN, DID NOT SAY:ِ ``ALLAH'S WILL BE DONE, THERE IS NO POWER EXCEPT IN ALLAH,'' WHEN YOU SAW ME TO HAVE LESS WEALTH AND CHILDREN THAN YOU?

فَعَسَى رَبِّي أَنْ يُؤْتِيَنِي خَيْراً مِّنْ جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَاناً مِنْ السَّمَاءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيداً زَلَقاً(( 40 )) 40- THEN IT MAY BE THAT MY LORD WILL GIVE ME BETTER THAN YOUR GARDEN; AND SEND AGAINST IT, (i.e. YOUR GARDEN) HAIL-STONE FROM THE SKY (FALLING IN SHOWER) THEN IN THE MORNING YOU FIND IT A SLIPPERY BARREN WASTE.

أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَاؤُهَا غَوْراً فَلَنْ تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُ طَلَباً(( 41 )) 41- OR IT BEGIN THE DAY WITH ITS WATER HAVING SUNK DOWN, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIND IT AGAIN. [ 642 ] THE COMMENTARY THE ANSWER OF THE HUMBLE BELIEVER (VERSE NO. 37 - 41) Here the believer companion rejects all the baseless and literary compositions of his friend, about his false and deceiving motives. First of all he objects against his proud companion for denying God!

Although the above verses do not imply that the Materialist denied God, but his denying the Resurrection and raise of the dead consists of denying God's power of creation; and this is why the believer reasons by the three stages of Man's creation.

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