ٱلْكَهْف : ٤٠

  • فَعَسَىٰ It may be
  • رَبِّيٓ that my Lord
  • أَن that my Lord
  • يُؤۡتِيَنِ will give me
  • خَيۡرٗا better
  • مِّن than
  • جَنَّتِكَ your garden
  • وَيُرۡسِلَ and will send
  • عَلَيۡهَا upon it
  • حُسۡبَانٗا a calamity
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱلسَّمَآءِ the sky
  • فَتُصۡبِحَ then it will become
  • صَعِيدٗا ground
  • زَلَقًا slippery
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,
maybe my Lord will give me [something] better than your the Paradise (this is the response to the conditional clause [beginning with lawlaa, 'and if only']) and unleash upon it bolts (husbaan is the plural of husbaana), that is to say, thunderbolts, from the sky so that it becomes a bare plain, a [piece of] smooth ground upon which no foot can stand firm;