[348] Crops and offspring. Sowing corruption in the land by spreading Denial, acts of rebelliousness against God and injustice will surely cause disruption in the balance of life and may bring about God’s punishment of withholding rain, the source of the very element of life, water, thus causing ruination and death (cf. 7: 96 and 30: 41). (al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr)