Book of Crop Calamities

Chapter
Explaining the Meaning of a Calamity through the Quran

Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:

“What they spend in this worldly life is like a wind carrying bitter frost that strikes the crops of people who have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah has not wronged them; rather, they wrong themselves.” [Āl Imrān: 117]

And He, Most High, says:

“The life of this world is only like rain We send down from the sky, by which the earth’s vegetation grows in abundance, providing food for people and livestock. Then, when the earth has taken on its adornment and is beautified, and its people think they have power over it, Our command comes upon it by night or day, and We leave it mown down, as though it had not flourished the day before. Thus We explain the signs for people who reflect.” [Yūnus: 24]

And He, Most High, says:

“Why, when you entered your garden, did you not say, ‘What Allah wills comes to pass; there is no power except through Allah’? Although you see me as having less wealth and fewer children than you,” [al-Kahf: 39]

“perhaps my Lord will give me something better than your garden and send upon it a calamity from the sky, leaving it a bare, slippery plain,” [al-Kahf: 40]

“or its water may sink deep into the earth, so that you will never be able to reach it.” [al-Kahf: 41]

“And his fruit was utterly destroyed, and he began wringing his hands over what he had spent on the garden, while it lay collapsed upon its trellises.” [al-Kahf: 42]

And He, Most High, says: