Al-Kahf 18:40 فعسى ربي ان يوتين خيرا من جنتك ويرسل عليها حسبانا من السماء فتصبح صعيدا زلقا ٤٠

18:40

فَعَسَىٰ

رَبِّيٓ

أَن

يُؤۡتِيَنِ

خَيۡرٗا

مِّن

جَنَّتِكَ

وَيُرۡسِلَ

عَلَيۡهَا

حُسۡبَانٗا

مِّنَ

ٱلسَّمَآءِ

فَتُصۡبِحَ

صَعِيدٗا

زَلَقًا

٤٠

"It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and will send on it Husbân (torment, bolt) from the sky, then it will be a barren slippery earth.

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Chapter 18, Page 298, Juz 15

32. And put forward to them the example of two men: unto one of them We had given two gardens of grapes, and We had surrounded both with date-palms; and had put between them green crops (cultivated fields). 33. Each of those two gardens brought forth its produce, and failed not in the least therein, and We caused a river to gush forth in the midst of them. 34. And he had property (or fruit) and he said to his companion, in the course of mutual talk: "I am more than you in wealth and stronger in respect of men." (Tafsir Al-Qurtubî). 35. And he went into his garden while in a state (of pride and disbelief) unjust to himself. He said: "I think not that this will ever perish. 36. "And I think not the Hour will ever come, and if indeed I am brought back to my Lord, (on the Day of Resurrection), I surely shall find better than this when I return to Him." 37. His companion said to him during the talk with him: "Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you out of dust (i.e. your father Adam), then out of Nutfah (mixed semen drops of male and female discharge), then fashioned you into a man? 38. "But as for my part, (I believe) that He is Allâh, my Lord, and none shall I associate as partner with my Lord. 39. "It was better for you to say, when you entered your garden: ‘That which Allâh wills (will come to pass)! There is no power but with Allâh!’ If you see me less than you in wealth, and children, 40. "It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and will send on it Husbân (torment, bolt) from the sky, then it will be a barren slippery earth. 41. "Or the water thereof (of the gardens) becomes deep-sunken (underground) so that you will never be able to seek it." 42. So his fruits were encircled (with ruin). And he remained clapping his hands (with sorrow) over what he had spent upon it, while it was all destroyed on its trellises, and he could only say: "Would that I had ascribed no partners to my Lord!" [Tafsir Ibn Kathîr] 43. And he had no group of men to help him against Allâh, nor could he defend (or save) himself. 44. There (on the Day of Resurrection), Al-Walâyah (protection, power, authority and kingdom) will be for Allâh (Alone), the True God. He (Allâh) is the Best for reward and the Best for the final end. (Lâ ilâha illallâh- none has the right to be worshipped but Allâh).

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