English - Tafheem -Maududi : لقد كان لسبا في مسكنهم ايه جنتان عن يمين وشمال كلوا من رزق ربكم واشكروا له بلده طيبه ورب غفور div class="tafheem"div class="tafheem_trans"3415 For Shebaspan id="25" *25 there was also a Sign in their dwelling placespan id="26" *26 the two gardensspan id="27" *27 to the right and to the left' Eat of your Lord's provision and render thanks to Him Most pleasant is your land and Most Forgiving is your Lord'/divdiv class="tafheem_comments" span*25 To understand the continuity of the subjectmatter one should keep in view the theme as expressed in vv19 There it has been pointed out that the pagans of Arabia regarded the coming of the Hereafter as irrational and declared openly that the Messenger who was presenting this doctrine was either a mad man or deliberately was fabricating falsehood In reply to this Allah first gave some rational arguments which we have elaborated in EN's 7 8 and 12 above Then in vv 1021 the story of the Prophets David and Solomon and of Saba has been related as an historical argument which is meant to impress the reality that the history of the human species on the earth itself testifies to the law of retribution If man studies his own history carefully he will see that this world is not a lawless kingdom which might be functioning blindly but it is being ruled by an AllHearing and AIISeeing Being Who treats and deals with His grateful servants in one way and with the ungrateful and thankless people in quite another way If one wants one can learn this lesson from the same history that in the Kingdom of God which has such a character goodness and evil cannot have one and the same result The necessary demand of its justice is that a time must come when goodness should be fully rewarded and evil fully punished br span*26 That is "A Sign of this that whatever they havc is the gift of some one else and not of their own creation and a Sign of this that the one worthy of their service and worship and gratitude is that God Who has blessed them with these favours and not those who havc no share in bestowing these and a Sign of this that their wealth is not imperishable but can perish even as it has been amassed" br span*27 This does not mean that there were only two gardens in the whole country but that the entire land of Saba was like a garden Wherever a man stood he could see a garden on his right and a garden on his left br /div