| أَوْ يُوبِقْهُنَّ بِمَا كَسَبُوا وَيَعْفُ عَنْ كَثِيرٍ |
| Asad | : | or else He may cause them to perish because of what they have wrought;36 and [withal,] He pardons much. |
| Malik | : | - Or He may cause them to drown in consequence of even a few of their misdeeds, though He forgives many of their misdeeds. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | Or He can wreck the ships for what the people have committed—though He forgives much— |
| Pickthall | : | Or he causeth them to perish on account of that which they have earned And He forgiveth much-- |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Or He can cause them to perish because of the (evil) which (the men) have earned: but much doth He forgive. |
| Transliteration | : | Aw yoobiqhunna bima kasaboo wayaAAfu AAan katheerin |
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I.e., because of the evil which they have committed. The above passage is, I believe, a parabolical allusion to the three possible alternatives in the life to come: spiritual progress and happiness (symbolized by ships that sail freely through the sea); spiritual stagnancy (ships that lie motionless on the sea's surface); and spiritual disaster and suffering (summarized in the concept of perdition). The second of these three alternatives seems to point to the condition of those 'ala 'l-a'raf spoken of in 7:46 Cf. and explained in the corresponding note [37]. |
