Читать книгу Towards Understanding the Qur'an - Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi - Страница 135

Al-Baqarah 2: 265–6

such people derive no gain from their acts of charity. Allah does not set the deniers of the Truth on the Right Way.94 (265) The example of those who spend their wealth single- mindedly to please Allah is that of a garden on a high ground. If a heavy rain smites it, it brings forth its fruits twofold, and if there is no heavy rain, even a light shower suffices it. Allah sees all that you do.

(266) Would any of you desire that he should have a garden of palms and vines with rivers flowing beneath it – a garden in which he has every manner of fruit – and that it should then be struck by a fiery whirlwind and be utterly burnt down at a time when old age has overtaken him, and his offspring are still too small to look after their affairs?95 ▶

94 Here the term kafir is used in the sense of the ungrateful person who refuses to acknowledge the benevolence of his benefactor.

95 It is obvious that a man does not like to see that the earnings of his lifetime are destroyed when he is stricken with age and needs them badly and is no longer in a position to earn them. How is it, then, that he can contemplate stepping into the realm of the Hereafter and finding suddenly that he is empty-handed; that he has sown nothing whose fruit he can harvest?

86