Surah Al-Qalam Verse 17

¹⁷Let the polytheists of Mecca, who deny the prophethood of Our Messenger and look down on him while boasting of the wealth they own, not forget that it is Allah who granted them that wealth. He granted them this wealth as a means of testing them. What they should do is not grow arrogant, but give thanks to Allah, who gave them these blessings, live in keeping with tawhid, serve Him alone, and believe in Our Messenger. Now, as a lesson to take to heart, We will tell them what became of the owners of the garden, who in the past, like them, were ungrateful for divine blessings! There were once several brothers who owned a large and fertile garden inherited from their father, a charitable man and a person of tawhid. Instead of giving thanks for this divine blessing as their father had, thinking of the poor and helping them, they were ungrateful to Allah and cut off the help their father used to give. We had put the owners of the garden through a severe test because, despite the blessings We had given them, they did not take Us into account. Recall that while their father was alive, those garden owners used to give the poor their right from their property. But when their father died, they stopped giving their wealth to the poor, with various excuses. So this man’s sons, having become selfish, swore confidently and boastfully that when morning came they would harvest the crops without letting the poor see. Yet this was not entirely in their hands. They could not even know whether the vineyard, or they themselves, would survive until morning. But their attachment to the world had dragged them into such heedlessness.