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Verses 1 to 9 of Surah 104.
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وَيْلٌ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍ

WOE unto every slanderer, fault-finder! (1)

الَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُ

[Woe unto him] who amasses wealth and counts it a safeguard, (2)

يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُ أَخْلَدَهُ

thinking that his wealth will make him live forever! (3)

كَلَّا لَيُنْبَذَنَّ فِي الْحُطَمَةِ

Nay, but [in the life to come such as] he shall indeed be abandoned to crushing torment! (4)

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْحُطَمَةُ

And what could make thee conceive what that crushing torment will be? (5)

نَارُ اللَّهِ الْمُوقَدَةُ

A fire kindled by God, (6)

الَّتِي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْأَفْئِدَةِ

which will rise over the [guilty] hearts: (7)

إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ مُؤْصَدَةٌ

verily, it will close in upon them (8)

فِي عَمَدٍ مُمَدَّدَةٍ

in endless columns! (9)

  • Commentaries
  • Translations

  • Asad
  • Yusuf Ali

  • thinking that his wealth will make him live forever!3
  • 3 This is a metonym for the tendency to attribute an almost "religious" value to the acquisition and possession of material goods and facilities - a tendency which precludes man from giving any real importance to spiritual considerations (cf. note 1 on 102:1). My rendering of 'addadahu in the preceding verse as "[he] counts it a safeguard" is based on Jawhari's explanation of this term.

  • Thinking that his wealth would make him last for ever! — Abdullah Yusuf Ali
  • He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal. — Marmaduke Pickthall
  • He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal. — M. Habib Shakir
  • He thinks that his wealth will make him last forever! — Taqiuddin Hilali and M. Mohsin Khan
  • He bethinketh that his wealth shall abide for him. — Abdul-Majid Daryabadi
  • thinking his wealth will render him immortal! — Hasan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish
  • He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal. — Ayub Khan
  • He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal. — Sher Ali
  • thinking that his wealth will make him live forever! — Muhammad Asad
  • thinking his riches have made him immortal! — Arthur Arberry
  • He thinks that his wealth will immortalise him forever.{{3}} — Abu'l Ala Maududi