Transliteration:( Masalu maa yunfiqoona fee haazihil hayaatid dunyaa kamasali reehin feehaa sirrun asaabat harsa qawmin zalamooo anfusahum fa ahlakath; wa maa zalamahumul laahu wa laakin anfusahum yazlimoon )
256. This expenditure either refers that to which the Yahud would spend on their priests and ascetics or the charities of the non-believers and polytheists, or the charities of the hypocrites and pretenders which is given for mere publicity. Without doubt, their deeds are certainly not for the pleasure of Allah Almighty. Hence, this verse fits like a glove on them. Just as icy winds destroy crops, so does winds of transgression destroy the crops of good deeds.
257. The futility of their good deeds is due to their false beliefs, and this infidelity of theirs is intentional on their part, hence, they are termed tyrants.
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Please refer to Surah Imran ayat 113 which provides the complete commentary from verse 113 through 117.
91. The term ‘harvest’ in this parable refers to this life which resembles a field of cultivation the harvest of which one will reap in the World to Come. The ‘wind’ refers to the superficial appearance of righteousness, for the sake of which unbelievers spend their wealth on philanthropic and charitable causes. The expression ‘frost’ indicates their lack of true faith and their failure to follow the Divine Laws, as a result of which their entire life has gone astray.
By means of this parable God seeks to bring home to them that while wind is useful for the growth of cultivation if that wind turns into frost it destroys it. So it is with man’s acts of charity: they can prove helpful to the growth of the harvest one will reap in the Hereafter but are liable to be destructive if mixed with unbelief. God is the Lord and Master of man as well as of all that man owns, and the world in which he lives. If a man either does not recognize the sovereignty of his Lord and unlawfully serves others or disobeys God’s Laws then his actions become crimes for which he deserves to be tried; his acts of charity’ are but the acts of a servant who unlawfully helps himself to his master’s treasure and then spends it as he likes.
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