ٱلرُّوم : ٤١

  • ظَهَرَ Has appeared
  • ٱلۡفَسَادُ the corruption
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡبَرِّ the land
  • وَٱلۡبَحۡرِ and the sea
  • بِمَا for what
  • كَسَبَتۡ have earned
  • أَيۡدِي (the) hands
  • ٱلنَّاسِ (of) people
  • لِيُذِيقَهُم so that He may let them taste
  • بَعۡضَ a part
  • ٱلَّذِي (of) that which
  • عَمِلُواْ they have done
  • لَعَلَّهُمۡ so that they may
  • يَرۡجِعُونَ return
Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He [i.e., Allāh] may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].
Corruption has appeared on land, in the wastelands, because of the rain being withheld and the vegetation diminishing, and on sea, in lands near rivers because of their waters diminishing, because of what people's hands have perpetrated, of acts of disobedience, that He may make them taste (li-yudheeqahum; or [may be read] li-nudheeqahum, 'that We may make them taste') something of what they have done, that is, the punishment for it, that perhaps they may repent.