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Tafsir: Al-Kahf 18:41

18:41
او يصبح ماوها غورا فلن تستطيع له طلبا ٤١
أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَآؤُهَا غَوْرًۭا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُۥ طَلَبًۭا ٤١
أَوۡ
يُصۡبِحَ
مَآؤُهَا
غَوۡرٗا
فَلَن
تَسۡتَطِيعَ
لَهُۥ
طَلَبٗا
٤١
Or its water may sink ˹into the earth˺, and then you will never be able to seek it out.”
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You are reading a tafsir for the group of verses 18:37 to 18:41

If God showers His blessings on a man, he should always remain grateful to Him. But, if he does not possess the right mentality, prosperity becomes the cause of arrogance and vanity developing in him. On the contrary, one who possesses the right mentality does not forget God, even in poverty. He is content with whatever he has, while entertaining the hope that God will give him more. A man who lives in this world with open eyes will never indulge in impudence or arrogance. Man is brought up as a humble creature. He is subject to accidents, disease and old age. Neither the water nor the other things with the help of which he cultivates his ‘Garden’ in this world personally belong to him. All this is in order to ensure that man should live in this world with humility and modesty. But the transgressor does not learn any lesson from any of these things. He does not come to his senses until he loses everything and only after being deprived of everything does he come to realise—after seeing it with his own eyes—that he possessed nothing but total helplessness.