Surah Al-Kahf 18:40

فَعَسَىٰ رَبِّىٓ أَن يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْرًا مِّن جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَانًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًا زَلَقًا

It may be that my Lord will give me [something] better than your garden and will send upon it a [disastrous] penalty from the sky, and it will become a smooth, dusty ground,

Translation: Saheeh International

Tafsir

maybe my Lord will give me something better than your garden this is the response to the conditional clause beginning with lawlā ‘and if only’ and unleash upon it bolts husbān is the plural of husbāna that is to say thunderbolts from the heaven so that it becomes a bare plain a piece of smooth ground upon which no …

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