This verse implies the false spendings that are done for false purposes and from base motives which are connected with the mortal life in this material world. When they are sure of getting a valuable harvest or fruitful farmland, there comes to destroy it a nipping whirlwind which is some sort of calamity and disaster! In their despair they may blame God for that misfortune; but the harm and injustice that he sees and feels, had not come from God, but from their own soul and self: ``And Allah did not oppress them, but they themselves oppressed.''