(Take A Hint)
We let them taste the smaller retribution (of this world), before they incur the greater retribution (of the Hereafter), that they may (take a hint and) reform.
وَلَنُذيقَنَّهُم مِنَ العَذابِ الأَدنىٰ دونَ العَذابِ الأَكبَرِ لَعَلَّهُم يَرجِعونَ
wa lanuzeeqan nahum minal ‘azaabil adnaa doonal ‘azaabil akbari la’allahum yarji’oon