Surah Yunus ayat 24 Tafsir Quran 10:24

﴿إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَاءٍ أَنزَلْنَاهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الْأَرْضِ مِمَّا يَأْكُلُ النَّاسُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا أَخَذَتِ الْأَرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا وَازَّيَّنَتْ وَظَنَّ أَهْلُهَا أَنَّهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَيْهَا أَتَاهَا أَمْرُنَا لَيْلًا أَوْ نَهَارًا فَجَعَلْنَاهَا حَصِيدًا كَأَن لَّمْ تَغْنَ بِالْأَمْسِ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ﴾
[ يونس: 24]

10:24 The example of [this] worldly life is but like rain which We have sent down from the sky that the plants of the earth absorb - [those] from which men and livestock eat - until, when the earth has taken on its adornment and is beautified and its people suppose that they have capability over it, there comes to it Our command by night or by day, and We make it as a harvest, as if it had not flourished yesterday. Thus do We explain in detail the signs for a people who give thought.

The likeness the description of the life of this world is only as water rain which We send down from the heaven then the plants of the earth mingle with it they mingle because of it attaching themselves one to another whereof mankind eat plants such as wheat and barley and so on and cattle eat of pasture until when the earth has taken on its ornaments its splendour of plants and has adorned itself with flowers izzayyanat ‘adorned itself’ is originally tazayyanat but the tā’ has been substituted with the zāy and assimilated with it and its inhabitants think that they are masters of it fully capable of harvesting its fruits Our command Our decree or Our chastisement comes upon it by night or day and We make it that is its crops as reaped corn like that which has been reaped with sickles as though ka-an is softened in other words read it as ka-annahā the previous day it had not flourished as though it never were. Thus do We detail do We make clear the signs for a people who reflect.

Life here below stands similitude exact of the soil which is stirred to activity and swells up by absorption of the rain water falling from the floor of the vault of heaven. The water is imbibed by soil which constitute the victuals of both man and animal causing the vegetal growths to flourish and grow healthy and vigorous. The earth is rendered beautiful and pleasing to the senses and the world comes to be adorned and furnished with all that is ornamental, the natural and the artificial, and when its inhabitants begin to think that it shall always minister to their necessities and pleasure and they are now the masters thereof, there comes Our command to pass by night or by day to convince mankind that it is not in mortals to command success, and we mow it down as if it never flourished the day before. Thus do We expound Our revelations and make Our discourse readily understood by people who reflect

The Parable of this Life Allah the Almighty has set an example of the similitude of the life of this world, its glitter and the swiftness of its passage, likening it to the plant and vegetation that Allah brings out from the earth.
This plant grows from the water that comes down from the sky.
These plants are food for people, such as fruits and other different types and kinds of foods.
Some other kinds are food for cattle such as clover plants ( i.e.
green fodder for the cattle ) and herbage etc. حَتَّى إِذَآ أَخَذَتِ الاٌّرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا ( until when the earth is clad in its adornments , ) وَازَّيَّنَتْ ( and is beautified ) meaning, it became good by what grows on its hills such as blooming flowers of different shapes and colors. وَظَنَّ أَهْلُهَآ ( and its people think... ) those who planted it and put it in the ground, أَنَّهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَيْهَآ ( that they have all the powers of disposal over it ) to cultivate it and harvest it.
But while they were in that frame of mind, a thunderbolt or a severe, cold storm came to it.
It dried its leaves and spoiled its fruits.
Allah said: أَتَاهَآ أَمْرُنَا لَيْلاً أَوْ نَهَارًا فَجَعَلْنَاهَا حَصِيدًا ( Our command reaches it by night or by day and We make it like a clean-mown harvest, ) it became dry after it was green and flourishing. كَأَن لَّمْ تَغْنَ بِالاٌّمْسِ ( as if it had not flourished yesterday! ) as if nothing existed there before.
Qatadah said: "As if it had not flourished; as if it was never blessed." Such are things after they perish, they are as if they had never existed.
Similarly, the Hadith,
«يُؤْتَى بِأَنْعَمِ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا، فَيُغْمَسُ فِي النَّارِ غَمْسَةً، فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ خَيْرًا قَطُّ؟ هَلْ مَرَّ بِكَ نَعِيمٌ قَطُّ؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا، وَيُؤْتَى بِأَشَدِّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَيُغْمَسُ فِي النَّعِيمِ غَمْسَةً، ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ بُؤْسًا قَطُّ؟ فَيَقُولُ لَا»
( A person who led the most prosperous life in this world will be brought up and dipped once in the Fire.
He will then be asked: `Have you ever found any good or comfort' He will reply: `No.' And a person who had experienced extreme adversity in this world will be brought up and dipped once in the bliss (of Paradise ).
Then he will be asked: 'Did you ever face any hardship or misery' He will reply: `No.') Allah said about those who were destroyed: فَأَصْبَحُواْ فِى دِيَارِهِمْ جَـثِمِينَكَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْاْ فِيهَآ ( So they lay (dead ), prostrate in their homes; as if they had never lived there.)11:67-68 Allah then said: كَذلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الآيَـتِ ( Thus do We explain the Ayat.
.. ) We do explain the proofs, and evidences, in detail لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ( for the people who reflect. ) so they may take a lesson from this example in the swift vanishing of this world from its people while they are deceived by it.
They would trust this world and its promises, and then it unexpectedly turns away from them.
This world, in its nature, runs away from those who seek it but seeks those who run away from it.
Allah mentioned the parable of this world and the plants of the earth in several Ayat in His Noble Book.
He said in Surat Al-Kahf: وَاضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلَ الْحَيَوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَآءٍ أَنْزَلْنَـهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الاٌّرْضِ فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًا تَذْرُوهُ الرِّياحُ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مُّقْتَدِرًا ( And put forward to them the example of the life of this world: it is like the water (rain ) which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it, and becomes fresh and green.
But ( later ) it becomes dry and broken pieces, which the winds scatter.
And Allah is able to do everything.) ( 18:45 ) He also gave similar examples in both Surat Az-Zumar 39:21 and Surat Al-Hadid 57:20. Invitation to the Everlasting Gifts that do not vanish Allah said: وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلاَمِ ( And Allah calls to the Abode of Peace ) When Allah mentioned the swiftness of this world and its termination, He invited people to Paradise and encouraged them to seek it.
He called it the Abode of Peace.
It is the Abode of Peace because it is free from defects and miseries.
So Allah said: وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلاَمِ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ( Allah calls to the Home of Peace and guides whom He wills to the straight path. ) It was narrated that Jabir bin `Abdullah said: "Allah's Messenger ﷺ came out one day and said to us:
«إِنِّي رَأَيْتُ فِي الْمَنَامِ كَأَنَّ جِبْرِيلَ عِنْدَ رَأْسِي، وَمِيكَائِيلَ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيَّ، يَقُولُ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ: اضْرِبْ لَهُ مَثَلًا، فَقَالَ: اسْمَعْ، سَمِعَتْ أُذُنُكَ، وَاعْقِلْ، عَقَلَ قَلْبُكَ، إِنَّمَا مَثَلُكَ وَمَثَلُ أُمَّتِكَ كَمَثَلِ مَلِكٍ اتَّخَذَ دَارًا، ثُمَّ بَنَى فِيهَا بَيْتًا، ثُمَّ جَعَلَ فِيهَا مَأْدَبةً، ثُمَّ بَعَثَ رَسُولًا يَدْعُو النَّاسَ إِلَى طَعَامِهِ، فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ أَجَابَ الرَّسُولَ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ تَرَكَهُ، فَاللهُ الْمَلِكُ، وَالدَّارُ الْإِسْلَامُ، وَالْبَيْتُ الْجَنَّةُ، وَأَنْتَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ رَسُولٌ، فَمَنْ أَجَابَكَ دَخَلَ الْإِسْلَامَ، وَمَنْ دَخَلَ الْإِسْلَامَ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَمَنْ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ أَكَلَ مِنْهَا»
( I have seen in my sleep that it was as if Jibril was at my head and Mika'il at my leg.
They were saying to each other: `Give an example for him.' He said: `Listen, your ear may listen.
And fathom, your heart may fathom.
The parable of you and your Ummah is that of a king who has built a house on his land.
He arranged a banquet in it.
Then he sent a messenger to invite the people to his food.
Some accepted the invitation and others did not.
Allah is the King and the land is Islam, the house is Paradise and you Muhammad are the Messenger.
Whosoever responds to your call enters Islam.
And whosoever enters Islam enters Paradise.
And whosoever enters Paradise eats from it. ) Ibn Jarir recorded this Hadith.
It was also reported that Abu Ad-Darda' said that Allah's Messenger ﷺ said:
«مَا مِنْ يَوْمٍ طَلَعَتْ فِيهِ الشَّمْسُ إِلَّا وَبِجَنْبَيْهَا مَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ يَسْمَعُهُ خَلْقُ اللهِ كُلُّهُمْ إِلَّا الثَّقَلَيْنِ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ هَلُمُّوا إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ، إِنَّ مَا قَلَّ وَكَفَى خَيْرٌ مِمَّا كَثُرَ وَأَلْهَى»
( Two angels descend every day in which the sun rises and say that which all Allah's creatures would hear except Jinn and humans: `O people! Come to your Lord! Anything little and sufficient is better than a lot but distractive.' ) And He sent this down in the Qur'an when He said: وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلاَمِ ( "Allah calls to the Abode of Peace". ) Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Jarir recorded this.

The Parable of this Life Allah the Almighty has set an example of the similitude of the life of this world, its glitter and the swiftness of its passage, likening it to the plant and vegetation that Allah brings out from the earth.
This plant grows from the water that comes down from the sky.
These plants are food for people, such as fruits and other different types and kinds of foods.
Some other kinds are food for cattle such as clover plants ( i.e.
green fodder for the cattle ) and herbage etc. حَتَّى إِذَآ أَخَذَتِ الاٌّرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا ( until when the earth is clad in its adornments , ) وَازَّيَّنَتْ ( and is beautified ) meaning, it became good by what grows on its hills such as blooming flowers of different shapes and colors. وَظَنَّ أَهْلُهَآ ( and its people think... ) those who planted it and put it in the ground, أَنَّهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَيْهَآ ( that they have all the powers of disposal over it ) to cultivate it and harvest it.
But while they were in that frame of mind, a thunderbolt or a severe, cold storm came to it.
It dried its leaves and spoiled its fruits.
Allah said: أَتَاهَآ أَمْرُنَا لَيْلاً أَوْ نَهَارًا فَجَعَلْنَاهَا حَصِيدًا ( Our command reaches it by night or by day and We make it like a clean-mown harvest, ) it became dry after it was green and flourishing. كَأَن لَّمْ تَغْنَ بِالاٌّمْسِ ( as if it had not flourished yesterday! ) as if nothing existed there before.
Qatadah said: "As if it had not flourished; as if it was never blessed." Such are things after they perish, they are as if they had never existed.
Similarly, the Hadith, «يُؤْتَى بِأَنْعَمِ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا، فَيُغْمَسُ فِي النَّارِ غَمْسَةً، فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ خَيْرًا قَطُّ؟ هَلْ مَرَّ بِكَ نَعِيمٌ قَطُّ؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا، وَيُؤْتَى بِأَشَدِّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَيُغْمَسُ فِي النَّعِيمِ غَمْسَةً، ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ بُؤْسًا قَطُّ؟ فَيَقُولُ لَا» ( A person who led the most prosperous life in this world will be brought up and dipped once in the Fire.
He will then be asked: `Have you ever found any good or comfort' He will reply: `No.' And a person who had experienced extreme adversity in this world will be brought up and dipped once in the bliss (of Paradise ).
Then he will be asked: 'Did you ever face any hardship or misery' He will reply: `No.') Allah said about those who were destroyed: فَأَصْبَحُواْ فِى دِيَارِهِمْ جَـثِمِينَكَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْاْ فِيهَآ ( So they lay (dead ), prostrate in their homes; as if they had never lived there.)11:67-68 Allah then said: كَذلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الآيَـتِ ( Thus do We explain the Ayat.
.. ) We do explain the proofs, and evidences, in detail لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ( for the people who reflect. ) so they may take a lesson from this example in the swift vanishing of this world from its people while they are deceived by it.
They would trust this world and its promises, and then it unexpectedly turns away from them.
This world, in its nature, runs away from those who seek it but seeks those who run away from it.
Allah mentioned the parable of this world and the plants of the earth in several Ayat in His Noble Book.
He said in Surat Al-Kahf: وَاضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلَ الْحَيَوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَآءٍ أَنْزَلْنَـهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الاٌّرْضِ فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًا تَذْرُوهُ الرِّياحُ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مُّقْتَدِرًا ( And put forward to them the example of the life of this world: it is like the water (rain ) which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it, and becomes fresh and green.
But ( later ) it becomes dry and broken pieces, which the winds scatter.
And Allah is able to do everything.) ( 18:45 ) He also gave similar examples in both Surat Az-Zumar 39:21 and Surat Al-Hadid 57:20. Invitation to the Everlasting Gifts that do not vanish Allah said: وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلاَمِ ( And Allah calls to the Abode of Peace ) When Allah mentioned the swiftness of this world and its termination, He invited people to Paradise and encouraged them to seek it.
He called it the Abode of Peace.
It is the Abode of Peace because it is free from defects and miseries.
So Allah said: وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلاَمِ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ( Allah calls to the Home of Peace and guides whom He wills to the straight path. ) It was narrated that Jabir bin `Abdullah said: "Allah's Messenger ﷺ came out one day and said to us: «إِنِّي رَأَيْتُ فِي الْمَنَامِ كَأَنَّ جِبْرِيلَ عِنْدَ رَأْسِي، وَمِيكَائِيلَ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيَّ، يَقُولُ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ: اضْرِبْ لَهُ مَثَلًا، فَقَالَ: اسْمَعْ، سَمِعَتْ أُذُنُكَ، وَاعْقِلْ، عَقَلَ قَلْبُكَ، إِنَّمَا مَثَلُكَ وَمَثَلُ أُمَّتِكَ كَمَثَلِ مَلِكٍ اتَّخَذَ دَارًا، ثُمَّ بَنَى فِيهَا بَيْتًا، ثُمَّ جَعَلَ فِيهَا مَأْدَبةً، ثُمَّ بَعَثَ رَسُولًا يَدْعُو النَّاسَ إِلَى طَعَامِهِ، فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ أَجَابَ الرَّسُولَ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ تَرَكَهُ، فَاللهُ الْمَلِكُ، وَالدَّارُ الْإِسْلَامُ، وَالْبَيْتُ الْجَنَّةُ، وَأَنْتَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ رَسُولٌ، فَمَنْ أَجَابَكَ دَخَلَ الْإِسْلَامَ، وَمَنْ دَخَلَ الْإِسْلَامَ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَمَنْ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ أَكَلَ مِنْهَا» ( I have seen in my sleep that it was as if Jibril was at my head and Mika'il at my leg.
They were saying to each other: `Give an example for him.' He said: `Listen, your ear may listen.
And fathom, your heart may fathom.
The parable of you and your Ummah is that of a king who has built a house on his land.
He arranged a banquet in it.
Then he sent a messenger to invite the people to his food.
Some accepted the invitation and others did not.
Allah is the King and the land is Islam, the house is Paradise and you Muhammad are the Messenger.
Whosoever responds to your call enters Islam.
And whosoever enters Islam enters Paradise.
And whosoever enters Paradise eats from it. ) Ibn Jarir recorded this Hadith.
It was also reported that Abu Ad-Darda' said that Allah's Messenger ﷺ said: «مَا مِنْ يَوْمٍ طَلَعَتْ فِيهِ الشَّمْسُ إِلَّا وَبِجَنْبَيْهَا مَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ يَسْمَعُهُ خَلْقُ اللهِ كُلُّهُمْ إِلَّا الثَّقَلَيْنِ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ هَلُمُّوا إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ، إِنَّ مَا قَلَّ وَكَفَى خَيْرٌ مِمَّا كَثُرَ وَأَلْهَى» ( Two angels descend every day in which the sun rises and say that which all Allah's creatures would hear except Jinn and humans: `O people! Come to your Lord! Anything little and sufficient is better than a lot but distractive.' ) And He sent this down in the Qur'an when He said: وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلاَمِ ( "Allah calls to the Abode of Peace". ) Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Jarir recorded this.

( The similitude of the life of the world ) in terms of its permanence and evanescence ( is only as water ) rain ( which We send down from the sky, then the earth’s growth of that which men and cattle eat ) grains and fruits for men and plants and abundant grass for cattle ( mingles with it till, when the earth hath taken on her ornaments and is embellished ) with the colours red, yellow and green, ( and her people ) the plowmen ( deem that they are masters of her ) of her yielding, ( Our commandment ) Our punishment ( cometh by night or by day ) just as if sheep have trampled on its enclosure destroying all the plowmen’s plantations ( and we make it as reaped corn ) in the summer ( as if it had not flourished yesterday ) as if they had not existed yesterday. ( Thus do We expound the revelation ) We explain in the Qur’an the evanescence of the life of this world ( for people who reflect ) upon the matter of this world and the Hereafter.

Verily the likeness of (this) worldly life is as the water (rain) which We send down from the sky, so by it arises the intermingled produce of the earth of which men and cattle eat until when the earth is clad with its adornments and is beautified, and its people think that they have all the powers of disposal over it, Our Command reaches it by night or by day and We make it like a clean-mown harvest, as if it had not flourished yesterday! Thus do We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, laws, etc.) in detail for the people who reflect.

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