26 Preface فَلَمّا رَأَوها قالوا إِنّا لَضالّونَYusuf AliBut when they saw the (garden), they said: “We have surely lost our way:1Their fond dreams were dispelled when they found that the garden had been changed out of all recognition. It was as if they had come to some place other then their own smiling garden. Where they had expected to reap a rich harvest, there was only a howling wilderness. They reflected. Their first thought was of their own personal loss, the loss of their labour and the loss of their capital. They had plotted to keep out others from the fruits: now, as it happened, the loss was their own.