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Surah Saba' ([The People of] Saba) 34 : 16

فَأَعْرَضُوا۟ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلَ ٱلْعَرِمِ وَبَدَّلْنَٰهُم بِجَنَّتَيْهِمْ جَنَّتَيْنِ ذَوَاتَىْ أُكُلٍ خَمْطٍ وَأَثْلٍ وَشَىْءٍ مِّن سِدْرٍ قَلِيلٍ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
But they turned away [refusing], so We sent upon them the flood of the dam, and We replaced their two [fields of] gardens with gardens of bitter fruit, tamarisks and something of sparse lote trees.

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Word Arabic word
(34:16:1)
fa-aʿraḍū
But they turned away
(34:16:2)
fa-arsalnā
so We sent
(34:16:3)
(34:16:4)
sayla
(the) flood
(34:16:5)
l-ʿarimi
(of) the dam
(34:16:6)
wabaddalnāhum
and We changed for them
(34:16:7)
bijannatayhim
their two gardens
(34:16:8)
jannatayni
(with) two gardens
(34:16:9)
(34:16:10)
ukulin
producing fruit
(34:16:11)
khamṭin
bitter
(34:16:12)
wa-athlin
and tamarisks
(34:16:13)
washayin
and (some)thing
(34:16:14)
(34:16:15)
sid'rin
lote trees
(34:16:16)
qalīlin
few

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When such priceless blessings are given in plenty, why were they unwilling to give thanks? When they failed to show their gratitude to God and use what God favoured them with in a goodly and beneficial way, He took away their source of affluence and let loose raging, stone-carrying torrents which destroyed their dam and its water flooded the whole area. With the dam no longer functioning, the land dried up. Instead of beautiful gardens they now had only a desert in which only a few wild trees were to grow, bearing no good fruit. The verse says that their gardens were “replaced ...with others yielding bitter fruit, tamarisks, and a few lote trees.”

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