Yunus (Jonas) 10:25

<h2>The Parable of this Life</h2><p>Allah the Almighty has set an example of the similitude of the life of this world, its glitter and the swiftness of its passage, likening it to the plant and vegetation that Allah brings out from the earth. This plant grows from the water that comes down from the sky. These plants are food for people, such as fruits and other different types and kinds of foods. Some other kinds are food for cattle such as clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle) and herbage etc.</p><p>حَتَّى إِذَآ أَخَذَتِ الاٌّرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا</p><p>(until when the earth is clad in its adornments ,)</p><p>وَازَّيَّنَتْ</p><p>(and is beautified ) meaning, it became good by what grows on its hills such as blooming flowers of different shapes and colors.</p><p>وَظَنَّ أَهْلُهَآ</p><p>(and its people think...) those who planted it and put it in the ground,</p><p>أَنَّهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَيْهَآ</p><p>(that they have all the powers of disposal over it) to cultivate it and harvest it. But while they were in that frame of mind, a thunderbolt or a severe, cold storm came to it. It dried its leaves and spoiled its fruits. Allah said:</p><p>أَتَاهَآ أَمْرُنَا لَيْلاً أَوْ نَهَارًا فَجَعَلْنَاهَا حَصِيدًا</p><p>(Our command reaches it by night or by day …

And Allah summoneth to the abode of peace, and leadeth whom He will to a straight path.

But Allah doth call to the Home of Peace: He doth guide whom He pleaseth to a way that is straight.

Allah calls to the home of peace (i.e. Paradise, by accepting Allah's religion of Islamic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds and abstaining from polytheism and evil deeds) and guides whom He wills to a Straight Path.

God invites to the Home of Peace, and guides whomever He wills to a straight path.