ٱلْأَعْرَاف : ٩٦

  • وَلَوۡ And if
  • أَنَّ [that]
  • أَهۡلَ people
  • ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ (of) the cities
  • ءَامَنُواْ (had) believed
  • وَٱتَّقَوۡاْ and feared Allah
  • لَفَتَحۡنَا surely We (would have) opened
  • عَلَيۡهِم upon them
  • بَرَكَٰتٖ blessings
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱلسَّمَآءِ the heaven
  • وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ and the earth
  • وَلَٰكِن but
  • كَذَّبُواْ they denied
  • فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم So We seized them
  • بِمَا for what
  • كَانُواْ they used to
  • يَكۡسِبُونَ earn
And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allāh, We would have opened [i.e., bestowed] upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.1
Footnotes
1 - Of blame for their sin.
Yet had the people of the towns, the deniers, believed, in God and the messengers [sent] to them, and been fearful, of unbelief and acts of disobedience, We would have indeed opened upon them (read la-fatahnaa or la-fattahnaa) blessings from the sky, by way of rain, and earth, by way of vegetation; but they denied, the messengers, and so We seized them, We punished them, on account of what they used to earn.