when distress befalls man he supplicates us on his side sitting or standing but when we remove his distress he passes on as if he had never supplicated us concerning the distress that had befallen him. what they have been doing is thus presented as decorous to the transgressors.
وإذا مس الإنسان الضر دعانا لجنبه أو قاعدا أو قائما فلما كشفنا عنه ضره مر كأن لم يدعنا إلى ضر مسه كذلك زين للمسرفين ما كانوا يعملون