Tarikh (al-Tabari) 365
the accounts of past peoples from the Israelites and others
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي سُورَةِ " الْكَهْفِ " بَعْدَ قِصَّةِ أَصْحَابِ الْكَهْفِ: وَاضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلًا رَجُلَيْنِ جَعَلْنَا لِأَحَدِهِمَا جَنَّتَيْنِ مِنْ أَعْنَابٍ وَحَفَفْنَاهُمَا بِنَخْلٍ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمَا زَرْعًا كِلْتَا الْجَنَّتَيْنِ آتَتْ أُكُلَهَا وَلَمْ تَظْلِمْ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا وَفَجَّرْنَا خِلَالَهُمَا نَهَرًا وَكَانَ لَهُ ثَمَرٌ فَقَالَ لِصَاحِبِهِ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُ أَنَا أَكْثَرُ مِنْكَ مَالًا وَأَعَزُّ نَفَرًا وَدَخَلَ جَنَّتَهُ وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِنَفْسِهِ قَالَ مَا أَظُنُّ أَنْ تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدًا وَمَا أَظُنُّ السَّاعَةَ قَائِمَةً وَلَئِنْ رُدِدْتُ إِلَى رَبِّي لَأَجِدَنَّ خَيْرًا مِنْهَا مُنْقَلَبًا قَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُ أَكَفَرْتَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِنْ تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُلًا لَكِنَّا هُوَ اللَّهُ رَبِّي وَلَا أُشْرِكُ بِرَبِّي أَحَدًا وَلَوْلَا إِذْ دَخَلْتَ جَنَّتَكَ قُلْتَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ إِنْ تَرَنِ أَنَا أَقَلَّ مِنْكَ مَالًا وَوَلَدًا فَعَسَى رَبِّي أَنْ يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْرًا مِنْ جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَانًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًا زَلَقًا أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَاؤُهَا غَوْرًا فَلَنْ تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُ طَلَبًا وَأُحِيطَ بِثَمَرِهِ فَأَصْبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى مَا أَنْفَقَ فِيهَا وَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَى عُرُوشِهَا وَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِرَبِّي أَحَدًا وَلَمْ تَكُنْ لَهُ فِئَةٌ يَنْصُرُونَهُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَمَا كَانَ مُنْتَصِرًا هُنَالِكَ الْوَلَايَةُ لِلَّهِ الْحَقِّ هُوَ خَيْرٌ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ عُقْبًا [ الْكَهْفِ: 32 - 44 ].
Translation
✧ Allah, exalted is He, said in Sūrat al-Kahf after the story of the Companions of the Cave: “And strike for them a similitude: two men, to one of whom We gave two gardens of grapevines, and We surrounded them with date-palms and placed between them crops. Each of the two gardens brought forth its produce and did not fail in anything thereof, and We caused a river to gush forth in their midst. And he had fruit, so he said to his companion while he was conversing with him, ‘I am greater than you in wealth and mightier in men.’ And he entered his garden while wronging himself; he said, ‘I do not think that this will ever perish. And I do not think the Hour will occur; and if I am returned to my Lord, I will surely find better than this as a return.’ His companion said to him while he was conversing with him, ‘Have you disbelieved in the One who created you from dust, then from a drop, then fashioned you into a man? But as for me, He is Allah, my Lord, and I do not associate anyone with my Lord. And would that when you entered your garden you had said, “What Allah wills! There is no strength except in Allah.” If you see me as less than you in wealth and children, then perhaps my Lord will give me better than your garden and send upon it a reckoning from the sky so that it becomes a barren slippery ground, or its water becomes sunken so that you will never be able to seek it.’ And his fruit was encompassed, so he began wringing his hands over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises, and he said, ‘Would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord.’ And he had no party to help him besides Allah, nor was he able to defend himself. There, protection belongs to Allah, the True; He is best in reward and best in outcome” [al-Kahf: 32–44].
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