ٱلْكَهْف : ٧٩

  • أَمَّا As for
  • ٱلسَّفِينَةُ the ship
  • فَكَانَتۡ it was
  • لِمَسَٰكِينَ of (the) poor people
  • يَعۡمَلُونَ working
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡبَحۡرِ the sea
  • فَأَرَدتُّ So I intended
  • أَنۡ that
  • أَعِيبَهَا I cause defect (in) it
  • وَكَانَ (as there) was
  • وَرَآءَهُم after them
  • مَّلِكٞ a king
  • يَأۡخُذُ who seized
  • كُلَّ every
  • سَفِينَةٍ ship
  • غَصۡبٗا (by) force
As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force.
As for the ship, it belonged to poor people, ten [in number], who earned a living on the sea, with it, leasing it [to others], as a way of gaining [a living]; and I wanted to make it defective, for behind them, whenever they returned - or [meaning] before them now - was a king, a disbeliever, seizing every ship, that was usable, by force (ghasban, is in the accusative as a verbal noun containing an explanation of the nature of such 'seizure').