أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ

YOU ARE OBSESSED by greed for more and more (1)

حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ

until you go down to your graves. (2)

ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ

And once again: Nay, in time you will come to understand! (4)

كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ الْيَقِينِ

Nay, if you could but understand [it] with an understanding [born] of certainty, (5)

لَتَرَوُنَّ الْجَحِيمَ

you would indeed, most surely, behold the blazing fire [of hell]! (6)

ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ

In the end you will indeed, most surely, behold it with the eye of certainty: (7)

ثُمَّ لَتُسْأَلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعِيمِ

and on that Day you will most surely be called to account for [what you did with] the boon of life! (8)