If there were a recitation that could cause mountains to move, or the earth to split, or the dead to speak, ˹it would have been this Quran˺. But all matters are by Allah’s Will. Have the believers not yet realized that had Allah willed, He could have guided all of humanity? And disasters will continue to afflict the disbelievers or strike close to their homes for their misdeeds, until Allah’s promise comes to pass. Surely Allah never fails in His promise.
Explanation
These readings represent linguistic options for this verb form X from root y-ʾ-s. One narration from al-Bazzī has the first two letters reversed, and the hamzah lightened; another narration is in agreement with the majority. Both are consistent with the same skeletal form.