Does the context of Surat Al-Kahf indicate that the believer wished for the removal of his companion's two blessings?
Interpretation of the verse: ﴿So perhaps my Lord will give me something better than your garden and send upon it a calculating affliction from the sky, so it becomes barren, slippery ground Or its water becomes sunken, so you will never be able to seek it.﴾
The majority of scholars believe that the verse is a warning from the believer to his disbelieving companion, cautioning him against his transgression and his forgetfulness to thank his Lord, and that the consequence of this is the disappearance of blessings.
Some scholars believe that it is a supplication from the believer for himself and against his companion.
Al-Sa'di said: "In it: a supplication for the destruction of wealth that was the cause of his transgression, disbelief, and loss..."
Ibn Ashour said: "Perhaps he intended it as a supplication for himself and against his companion."
Ibn Uthaymeen said: "'Perhaps' (عسى) may be for hope, and the believer may have prayed that Allah grant him something better than his garden, and that He send upon it a calculating affliction; because he (the disbeliever) belittled him. And it may be for expectation, meaning that he expects that Allah will remove from him what he was reproached for, and remove from his companion what he boasts about. And what the believer said came to pass. And the 'calculating affliction' (الحسبان) is what destroys the garden, such as thunderbolts or other things."
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