Commentary
And when this believer acknowledged his inability and neediness, in contrast to what the disbeliever displayed of strength and pride, it caused what is customary in every recompense. He called out in the form of expectation, so Allah, the Exalted, said: "Perhaps my Lord, who is good to me, will give me from His treasures something better than your garden," and He will do good to me with wealth as He has done good to me with the poverty that is accompanied by monotheism, which produces happiness. "And He will send upon it" (p-64) meaning your garden, "a reckoning" meaning targets from severe storms and hail from the sky.
And when the encounter with calamity is the most painful, Allah, the Exalted, said: "So it will become" after being a delight to the eye by what it shakes from trees and crops, "a slippery ground" meaning a land on which one slips due to the complete removal of its vegetation, so no plant grows in it, and no foot remains firm in it.
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