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And it may be that you dislike a thing, while it is a good for you;

and it may be that you like a thing, while it is an ill for you.

He said: "Might it be that, if combat were prescribed for you, you would not fight?"

If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing in which God places much good.

It may be that God will restrain the violence of those who disown.

As for those, it may be that God will overlook it for them.

it may then be that God brings the opening, or a command from Himself, and they find themselves, for what they kept secret within themselves, full of regret.

He said: "It may be that your Guardian will annihilate your enemy and make you successors on the earth, so as to look at how you would act."

Have they not looked into the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, and into everything God has created, and that it may be that their term has already drawn near?

Only he populates the places of prostration of God who has believed in God and the Last Day, has maintained the Contact, given pure liberality, and dreaded none but God alone — it may be that those are among those who let themselves be guided.

And others have acknowledged their offenses, having mixed a sound deed with another that was evil; it may be that God will turn toward them with clemency.

And the one who bought him, in Egypt, said to his wife: "Make his sojourn honorable; it may be that he will be useful to us, or that we adopt him as a son."

It may be that God will bring them all back to me:

It may be that your Guardian will show you benevolence;

Say: "It may be that it is near.

And for part of the night, keep vigil with it, as an addition for you: it may be that your Guardian will raise you to a praised station.

and say: "It may be that my Guardian will guide me to a rectitude nearer than this."

If you see me as having fewer goods and children than you, it may be that my Guardian will grant me better than your garden, and send upon it, from the sky, a reckoned plague, so that it becomes a slippery outcrop, or its water sinks away, so that you will never be able to seek it out."

Ibrahim said: "Peace be upon you. I will ask my Guardian's forgiveness for you: He has ever been attentive to me. I draw apart from you and from what you invoke besides God, and I invoke my Guardian; it may be that, in invoking my Guardian, I shall not be wretched."

Say: "It may be that some of what you seek to hasten is very close behind you."

it may be that he will be useful to us, or that we adopt him as a son." They did not sense it.

As he headed toward Madyan, he said: "It may be that my Guardian will guide me to the straight way."

As for one who repented, believed, and did sound deeds, it may be that he is among those who succeed.

Might you, then, if you turned your backs, sow corruption on earth and fragment your kinship into rival factions?

O you who have believed! Let not a people scoff at a people: it may be that they are better than them; nor let women scoff at women: it may be that they are better than them.

It may be that God will place affection between you and those you have held as enemies among them,

It may be that his Guardian, if he repudiates you, will give him in exchange wives better than you: true to God alone, believing, devoted, repentant, obedient, free in their movement, previously married or virgins.

O you who have believed! Turn back to God with a sincere turning back. It may be that your Guardian will cover your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, on the day when God will not disgrace the Informant nor those who believed with him; their light will hurry before them and on their right.

They said: "Woe to us! We have indeed exceeded all measure. It may be that our Guardian will give us a better one in exchange; it is to our Guardian that we turn in yearning."