24أَن لا يَدخُلَنَّهَا اليَومَ عَلَيكُم مِسكينٌMuhammad Asad"Indeed, no needy person shall enter it today [and come] upon you [unawares],"1Ever since Biblical times it has been understood that the poor have a right to a share in the harvest of the fields and gardens owned by their more fortunate fellow-men (cf. 6:141 - "give [unto the poor] their due on harvest-day"). The determination of the "owners of the garden" to deprive the poor of this right is the second type of sin to which the above parable points: and inasmuch as it is a social sin, it connects with verses 10-13.