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

then, it is likely that my Lord will give me (what is) better than your garden, and will send to it a punishment from the heavens, and it will become a barren land.

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Chapter 18, Page 298, Juz 15

32. Give them an example. There were two men; We gave one of them two gardens of grapes, and surrounded both of them with date-palms, and placed vegetation between them. 33. Both the gardens brought forth their fruit, and suppressed nothing from it, and We caused a stream to flow through them. 34. And he had wealth. So, he said to his companion while conversing with him, “I am greater than you in wealth and stronger in manpower.” 35. And he entered his garden while he was doing wrong to himself. He said, “I do not think that this will ever perish, 36. and I do not think that the Hour (Day of Judgment) has to come. And even if I am sent back to my Lord, I will surely find a better place than this to resort to.” 37. Said his companion, as he was conversing with him, “Do you deny Him who created you from dust, then from a drop (of semen), then He made you a perfect man? 38. As for me, I believe that Allah is my Lord, and I do not associate anyone with my Lord. 39. Why, when you entered your garden, did you not say, ‘(Everything is) as Allah wills. There is no power except with Allah’? If you see me inferior to you in wealth and children, 40. then, it is likely that my Lord will give me (what is) better than your garden, and will send to it a punishment from the heavens, and it will become a barren land. 41. Or, its water will sink deep in the earth, so that you will never be able to search it out.” 42. And its produce was overwhelmed by calamities and he stood wringing his hands (in anguish) over what he had invested in it, while it was fallen down on its trellises and he was saying, “I wish I had not ascribed any partner to my Lord!” 43. There were no supporters for him beside Allah, who could come to his help, nor was he able to defend himself. 44. That is where the power of protection rests with Allah, the True God. He is the best in rewarding and best in requiting.

- T. Usmani