سورة الکهف
Surah Al-Kahf 18:40
The Place of Refuge · Verse 40 of 110
فَعَسَىٰ رَبِّي أَنْ يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْرًا مِنْ جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَانًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًا زَلَقًا
Abdul Mannan Omar
`There is every hope that my Lord will give me a garden better than yours and He may visit this (garden of yours) with thunderbolts from above, so that it is turned into a barren waste.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
It may be that my Lord will give me something better than thy garden, and that He will send on thy garden thunderbolts (by way of reckoning) from heaven, making it (but) slippery sand!-
Ahmed Ali
Yet, my Lord may haply give me a garden better than yours, and He may send a thunder-bolt, from the skies and in the morning it will be a barren plain;
12 more translations
Ali Unal
"It may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your vineyard, and send on it (your vineyard) a calamity from heaven so that it becomes a barren waste.
Daryabadi
Then belike my Lord will vouchsafe unto me something better than thy garden and send thereon a belt from the heaven that it become a plane slippery.
Faridul Haque
"So it is likely that my Lord will give me a garden better than yours, and send bolts of lightning from the skies on your garden - it therefore turns into a barren plain."
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Then maybe my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and will send on (thine) a reckoning from heaven so that it is dust without plant:
Maulvi Sher Ali
`It may be, my Lord will grant me something better than thy garden, and will send on thy garden a thunderbolt from heaven so that it will become bare slippery ground;
Muhammad Asad
yet it may well be that my Sustainer will give me something better than thy garden - just as He may let loose a calamity out of heaven upon this [thy garden], so that it becomes a heap of barren dust
Muhammad Musin Khan
It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and will send on it Husban (torment, bolt, etc.) from the sky, then it will be a slippery earth.
Muhammad Pickthall
Yet it may be that my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and will send on it a bolt from heaven, and some morning it will be a smooth hillside,
Muhammad Sarwar
perhaps my Lord will give me a garden better than yours and strike your garden with a thunderbolt from the sky to turn it into a barren ground,
Muhammed ali Shakir
Then maybe my Lord will give me what is better than your garden, and send on it a thunderbolt from heaven so that it shall become even ground without plant,
Rashad Khalifa
My Lord may grant me better than your garden. He may send a violent storm from the sky that wipes out your garden, leaving it completely barren.
Shabbir Ahmed
He said, “So my Lord may grant me something better than your garden. (The luxuries of this life are bound to vanish.) He may send a calamity from heaven to wipe out this garden, leaving it a heap of barren dust.”
Commentary 18:40 In the statement “there is every hope that my Lord will give me a garden better than yours”, is the great promise that Muslims will inherit vast lands…
فَعَسَىٰ رَبِّي أَن يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْرًا مِّن جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَانًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًا زَلَقًا
18:40 In the statement “there is every hope that my Lord will give me a garden better than yours”, is the great promise that Muslims will inherit vast lands and expanded power, better than the land of Palestine, and manpower much superior to tthat of the Jews. The lands and the power of the Muslims eventually expanded from Arabia to Spain to the west and up to the borders of China on the east. The stronghold of the Jews in Khaibar was lost early at the time of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) and was turned into a barren land. Even today Khaibar is a wasted and barren land, as was prophesied.