And when he alerted to this objection between the punishment and what is connected to it of the subtle meanings in the grandeur of the structures, he said, completing what is in that of encouragement in the form of intimidation: ﴿Or﴾ that is, or if He wills at any time He desires. And he attributed the drowning to the maidens to emphasize the intention of generality in the destruction of the passengers, so he said: ﴿He will drown them﴾ that is, He will destroy them by drowning through sending the wind and other forms of calamity until they seem after that elevation in their pit, that is, in their holes, and the depth in the water and its bottom. And the meaning of "wa baqa" has already been established in all its forms in Surah Al-Kahf, and from it that "wa baqa" is like "wa'ada" and "wajala" and "waritha" and "wubuqan" and "mawbqan": it means perished, and "mawbq" like "majlis": the destroyer, and everything that stands between two things because the "waqbah" stands between what is in it and what is other than it. And from it, the appointment is called: "mawbq", and "awbaqahu": he confined him or destroyed him.

And when the destruction for them is destruction for the passengers, he said, clarifying that they are the intended ones merely for the act, indicating that the son of Adam, due to what he is naturally inclined to of deficiencies, has no action free from the taint of deficiency, urging him to resort to Allah in refining his soul and purifying his actions: ﴿By what they earned﴾ that is, what they did of sins with their seriousness in it and their striving therein.

And when the estimation is a detail for the drowning: so He will drown everyone in them if He wills, and He will drown many of them if He wills, he added to it his saying: ﴿And He pardons﴾ that is, if He wills ﴿many﴾ that is, from the people who are in these drowning ships, so He saves them by swimming or being carried on a plank or otherwise. And if He wills, He sends a good wind to save them and bring them to their utmost desire or to other forms of estimations included under the will. So the action, as you see, is connected to "youbq", and it is connected by the conjunction because it is a part of the state of the drowning, and it is in the meaning of what was implied by the people of the city from the establishment of "ya'fu" by estimating "if" so that the meaning is: He causes drowning and pardon.