سورة الكهف

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): The poor man said: فَعَسی رَبِّی أَنْ یُؤْتِیَنِ خَیْراً مِنْ جَنَّتِکَ وَ یُرْسِلَ عَلَیْها حُسْباناً مِنَ السَّماءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِیداً زَلَقاً [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]. What is meant by صَعِیداً زَلَقاً is scorched ground.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): It is narrated from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): فَعَسی رَبِّی أَنْ یُؤْتِیَنِ خَیْراً مِنْ جَنَّتِکَ [Then maybe my Lord will give me what is better than your garden] — and than your world in this world, through the rising of my descendant al-Qa'im (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance), in terms of state, government and sovereignty; and in the Hereafter, in terms of judgement, intercession, paradise and the pleasure of Allah. وَ یُرْسِلَ عَلَیْها, meaning upon your garden, حُسْباناً مِنَ السَّماءِ, meaning a punishment and a fire that will burn it, or a sword from the swords of al-Qa'im (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance) that will destroy it. فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِیداً, meaning ground in which there is no vegetation. زَلَقاً, meaning that one who walks upon it slips.