Allah sets forth a Parable: a city enjoying security and quiet, abundantly supplied with sustenance from every place: Yet was it ungrateful for the favours of Allah: so Allah made it taste of hunger and terror (in extremes) (closing in on it) like a garment (from every side), because of the (evil) which (its people) wrought.
真主打一个比喻:一个市镇,原是安全的,安稳的,丰富的给养从各方运来,但镇上的居民辜负真主的恩惠,所以真主因他们的行为而使他们尝试极度的饥荒和恐怖。