مَثَلُ
مَا
يُنفِقُونَ
فِي
هَٰذِهِ
ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ
ٱلدُّنۡيَا
كَمَثَلِ
رِيحٖ
فِيهَا
صِرٌّ
أَصَابَتۡ
حَرۡثَ
قَوۡمٖ
ظَلَمُوٓاْ
أَنفُسَهُمۡ
فَأَهۡلَكَتۡهُۚ
وَمَا
ظَلَمَهُمُ
ٱللَّهُ
وَلَٰكِنۡ
أَنفُسَهُمۡ
يَظۡلِمُونَ
١١٧
The good they do in this worldly life is like the harvest of an evil people struck by a bitter wind, destroying it ˹completely˺. Allah never wronged them, but they wronged themselves.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
The example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves [i.e., sinned] and destroys it. And Allāh has not wronged them, but they wrong themselves.
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Virtues of the People of the Scriptures Who Embrace Islam
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…Virtues of the People of the Scriptures Who Embrace Islam
Muhammad bin Ishaq and others, including Al-Awfi who reported it from Ibn Abbas, said;"These
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