سورة الشورى، الآية ٣٤
أَوْ يُوبِقْهُنَّ بِمَا كَسَبُوا۟ وَيَعْفُ عَن كَثِيرٍ ٣٤
aw yūbiq'hunna bimā kasabū wayaʿfu ʿan kathīrin
Or He could destroy them1424 for what they earned; but He pardons much.
[1424] Meaning that Allāh could sink the ships by means of violent winds.
Verse 34 of Surah Ash-Shuraa (42:34), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 487 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Or if Allah, (may He be glorified), willed to destroy those ships by sending gale-force winds, He would have done so on account of the sins that people earn. He overlooks many of the sins of His servants and does not punish them for those.
Or He can capsize them20 for what they committed, but He pardons much,
[20] i.e., He could sink the ships by violent winds.
Or He may destroy them (by shipwreck) because of that which their (people) have earned. And He pardons much.
Or He causeth them to perish on account of that which they have earned - And He forgiveth much -
Or He can cause them to perish because of the (evil) which (the men) have earned; but much doth He forgive.
Or He may make them founder for what they have earned, and (even then) pardon most;
Or He wrecks them for what they have earned; and He is Clement towards much.
