( ولقد مكناهم فيما إن مكناكم فيه ) يعني فيما لم نمكنكم فيه من قوة الأبدان وطول العمر وكثرة المال .
قال المبرد : " ما " في قوله " فيما " بمنزلة الذي ، و " إن " بمنزلة ما ، وتقديره : ولقد مكناهم في الذي ما مكناكم فيه . ( وجعلنا لهم سمعا وأبصارا وأفئدة فما أغنى عنهم سمعهم ولا أبصارهم ولا أفئدتهم من شيء إذ كانوا يجحدون بآيات الله وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون ) .
And I granted the people of Hud the means of establishment which I have not given you, and I gave them hearing to hear with, vision to see with and hearts to understand with. But their hearing did not benefit them at all, nor did their vision or intellects. They did not repel Allah’s punishment from them when it came to them, as they used to disbelieve in Allah’s signs, and the punishment which they used to mock and which their prophet Hud (peace be upon him) used to warn them of befell them.