Al-Qalam 68:20
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A Blackened Garden
فَأَصۡبَحَتۡ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ ٢٠
And in the morning it was as if plucked.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
And it became as though reaped.
Insight
Elmalılı explains “sarim” as completely cut: a vineyard with its fruit cut, a harvested field, a part of the night, or sand that grows nothing.
Reflect
Give thanks, knowing what you have could be gone in a night.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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