مُحَمَّد : ٢٢

  • فَهَلۡ Then would
  • عَسَيۡتُمۡ you perhaps
  • إِن if
  • تَوَلَّيۡتُمۡ you are given authority
  • أَن that
  • تُفۡسِدُواْ you cause corruption
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡأَرۡضِ the earth
  • وَتُقَطِّعُوٓاْ and cut off
  • أَرۡحَامَكُمۡ your ties of kinship
So would you perhaps, if you turned away,1 cause corruption on earth and sever your [ties of] relationship?
Footnotes
1 - From Islām or from jihād (struggling in the cause of Allāh).
May it not be [the case] with you, (read 'aseetum or 'asaytum; there is a shift here from the third person to the second person address), that if you were to turn away, [if] you were to shun faith, you would then cause corruption in the land and sever your kinship ties?, in other words, [that] you would then return to the ways of pagandom such as belligerence and fighting.