ٱلْقَمَر : ١٦

  • فَكَيۡفَ So how
  • كَانَ was
  • عَذَابِي My punishment
  • وَنُذُرِ and My warnings
And how [severe] were My punishment and warning.1
Footnotes
1 - To those after them, who were expected to derive a lesson from previous occurrences.
How [dreadful] then were My chastisement and My warnings? (this is an interrogative meant as an affirmative; kayfa, 'how', is the predicate of kaana, 'was', and it is here being used to inquire about a 'state'; the intention is to prompt those who are being addressed to affirm the fact that God's chastisement of those who denied Noah was fully deserved).