أَوْ يُوبِقْهُنَّ بِمَا كَسَبُوا۟ وَيَعْفُ عَن كَثِيرٍۢ
Aw yoobiqhunna bimaa kasaboo wa ya'fu 'an kaseer
Or He could destroy them for what they earned; but He pardons much.
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Mercy & forgiveness
42:34Ayah 153
8 ayahs in Ash-Shura are strongly about mercy and forgiveness. This is one of them.
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Or He wrecks them yūbiqhunna a supplement to yuskin ‘He stills’ that is to say or He sinks them including their passengers by sending violent winds upon them because of what they that is the passengers of these ships have earned of sins. And He pardons much of such sin and does not cause those who have sinned to drown.
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