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Surah Al-Kahf — 18:33

كِلْتَا ٱلْجَنَّتَيْنِ ءَاتَتْ أُكُلَهَا وَلَمْ تَظْلِم مِّنْهُ شَيْـًٔا ۚ وَفَجَّرْنَا خِلَـٰلَهُمَا نَهَرًا

Kiltal jannataini aatat ukulahaa wa lam tazlim minhu shai'anw wa fajjarnaa khi laalahumaa naharaa

Her iki bahçe de ürünlerini vermişlerdi, hiçbir şeyi de eksik bırakmamışlardı. İkisinin arasından bir de ırmak akıtmıştık.

Each of the two gardens yielded its fruit and fell short in nothing, and we caused a river to flow between them.

Reflection

Arabic describes the harvest with a verb of injustice: the gardens wronged nothing of their yield, holding back no part of what was owed. Two lines on, the owner walks in and the same verb is turned against him, this time with himself as the one wronged. One clause here belongs to God rather than to the owner, the river opened between the plots, and it is the thing he leaves out when he starts counting what is his.

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