Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Indeed, there was for Saba’ in their dwelling a sign: two gardens on the right and the left. Eat from the provision of your Lord and be grateful to Him…”

The term refers to orchards, but the scholars said that because these orchards became like a single garden, and it is not known whether, if they had been separate gardens, they would have been considered a sign—meaning, simple ones—since they are orchards connected to one another on the right and left of the valley. Because they were connected to one another, they became like one, as if it were a single garden on the right and a single garden on the left. Now, the benefits: