It is He Who produceth gardens, with trellises and without, and dates, and tilth with produce of all kinds, and olives and pomegranates, similar (in kind) and different (in variety): eat of their fruit in their season, but render the dues that are proper on the day that the harvest is gathered. But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters.

(Joseph) said: "For seven years shall ye diligently sow as is your wont: and the harvests that ye reap, ye shall leave them in the ear,- except a little, of which ye shall eat.

The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: (It grows) till the earth is clad with its golden ornaments and is decked out (in beauty): the people to whom it belongs think they have all powers of disposal over it: There reaches it Our command by night or by day, and We make it like a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished only the day before! thus do We explain the Signs in detail for those who reflect.

And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.

And We send down from the sky rain charted with blessing, and We produce therewith gardens and Grain for harvests;

These are some of the stories of communities which We relate unto thee: of them some are standing, and some have been mown down (by the sickle of time).

他创造了许多园圃，其中有蔓生的和直立的果木，与果实各别的海枣和百谷，与形同味异的橄榄和石榴。当结果的时候，你们可以采食其果实；在收获的日子，你们当施舍其中的一部分，但不要过分。真主的确不喜爱过分的人。

他说：“你们要连种七年，凡你们所收获的麦子，都让它存在穗子上，只把你们所吃的少量的麦子打下来。

今世的生活，就像是从云中降下雨水，地里的禾苗，即人和牲畜所吃的东西--就因之而繁茂起来。直到田地穿上盛装，打扮得很美丽，而农夫猜想自己可以获得丰收的时候，我的命令在黑夜或白昼降临那些田地，我使五谷只留下茬儿，彷佛新近没有种过庄稼一样。我为能思维的民众这样解释许多迹象。

那句话，将要常为他们的哀号，直到我使他们变成谷茬和死灰。

我从云中降下吉祥的雨水，就借它而生长许多果树和五谷，

这是已遭毁灭的那些市镇的消息，我把它告诉你。那些市镇有废墟犹在的，有荡然无存的。