The story of the people of the garden

 The story of the people of the garden. 

Alhamdulillah, one of the beautiful story of Quran and full of lessons is the story of the two men of the garden. 

There was a man who inherited a garden from his father. The garden was of different fruits and everything and his father used to give the right of the poor from the garden. 

But this man who inherited the garden tried not to give charity from it and use to say to his friend, 

I don't think this garden will ever be taken from me. 

He even said i don't think the hereafter is there and even if there is the hereafter, i will be given something better than what i have been given. 

So he was associating partner with Allah and said to his friend, 

Tomorrow, Early in the morning, we will go to the farm and see it without telling the poor person. 

So early morning, he and his friend went to the place where the land was but as they went there, the man did not recognise his garden. 

The garden was something else and destroyed as if nothing existed on it before. 

Allah says in Quran, 

Al-Kahf 18:32

And present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops.

Al-Kahf 18:33

Each of the two gardens produced its fruit and did not fall short thereof in anything. And We caused to gush forth within them a river.

Al-Kahf 18:34

And he had fruit, so he said to his companion while he was conversing with him, "I am greater than you in wealth and mightier in [numbers of] men."

Al-Kahf 18:35

And he entered his garden while he was unjust to himself.[1] He said, "I do not think that this will perish - ever.

Al-Kahf 18:37

His companion said to him while he was conversing with him, "Have you disbelieved in He who created you from dust and then from a sperm-drop and then proportioned you [as] a man?

Al-Kahf 18:38

But as for me, He is Allāh, my Lord, and I do not associate with my Lord anyone.

Al-Kahf 18:39

And why did you, when you entered your garden, not say, 'What Allāh willed [has occurred]; there is no power except in Allāh'? Although you see me less than you in wealth and children,

Al-Kahf 18:40

It may be that my Lord will give me [something] better than your garden and will send upon it a [disastrous] penalty from the sky, and it will become a smooth, dusty ground,

Al-Kahf 18:42

And his fruits were encompassed [by ruin], so he began to turn his hands about [in dismay] over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises, and said, "Oh, I wish I had not associated with my Lord anyone."[1]

Al-Kahf 18:43

And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allāh, nor could he defend himself.