Al-Qalam (The Pen)

34. For the God fearing are gardens abounding in Bounties with their Lord.

35. Shall We then treat the believers like the disbelievers?

36. What is the matter with you? How do you judge?

37. Or do you have a book wherein you learn,

38. What you choose belongs to you.

The accounts of the good and the evil are juxtaposed in the Holy Qur’an such that such comparisons may help people with a better understanding of their fates. Such method is quite impressive in terms of education.

Likewise, following an account of the dire fate of the owners of the orchard in the preceding blessed Verses, mention is made of the exalted position of the God fearing and the Bounties in store for them.

The blessed Verse 34 is saying:

“For the God fearing are gardens abounding in Bounties with their Lord.”

Such gardens abound in whatever imaginable Bounty.

However, some polytheists and the vain affluent claiming that they are quite at comfort in this world and will enjoy the same state in the Hereafter are addressed in the blessed Verse 35 saying:

“Shall We then treat the believers [obedient to Allah] like the disbelievers?”

The following blessed Verse says:

“What is the matter with you? How do you judge?”

Anyone sound in mind readily acknowledges that the fates the just and the wrong doer, the obedient and the sinners, the sacrificing and the vain are not on a par before God Almighty Whose Acts are Wise and Well-Measured. Such vain people imagine that the world and the Hereafter belong to them.

The blessed Verse 37 further adds that if your reason failed to lead you to such understanding, could you produce any argument to substantiate your claim. Do you have a book to learn something from it?

The blessed Verse 38 says:

“Does your choice belong to you?”

Do you expect wrong doers like you to be on a par with the believing Muslims? Your false claim is neither reasonable nor is it mentioned in any authoritative book.