and god propounds a parable a town which was secure and at ease with its sustenance coming to it abundantly from all quarters and which thereupon blasphemously refused to show gratitude for gods blessings and therefore god caused it to taste the allembracing misery of hunger and fear in result of all that its people had so persistently wrought.
وضرب الله مثلا قرية كانت آمنة مطمئنة يأتيها رزقها رغدا من كل مكان فكفرت بأنعم الله فأذاقها الله لباس الجوع والخوف بما كانوا يصنعون