بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ويل لكل همزة لمزة
Woe to every scorner and mocker
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Woe to every slanderer and backbiter.
Woe to every (kind of) scandal - monger and - backbiter,
Chapter 104, 9 verses
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ويل لكل همزة لمزة
Woe to every scorner and mocker
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Woe to every slanderer and backbiter.
Woe to every (kind of) scandal - monger and - backbiter,
الذي جمع مالا وعدده
Who collects wealth and [continuously] counts it.
Who has gathered wealth and counted it.
Who pileth up wealth and layeth it by,
يحسب أن ماله أخلده
He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.
He thinks that his wealth will make him last forever!
Thinking that his wealth would make him last for ever!
كلا ۖ لينبذن في الحطمة
No! He will surely be thrown into the Crusher.
Nay! Verily, he will be thrown into the crushing Fire.
By no means! He will be sure to be thrown into That which Breaks to Pieces,
وما أدراك ما الحطمة
And what can make you know what is the Crusher?
And what will make you know what the crushing Fire is?
And what will explain to thee That which Breaks to Pieces?
نار الله الموقدة
It is the fire of Allah, [eternally] fueled,
The fire of Allah kindled,
(It is) the Fire of (the Wrath of) Allah kindled (to a blaze),
التي تطلع على الأفئدة
Which mounts directed at the hearts.
Which leaps up over the hearts,
The which doth mount (Right) to the Hearts:
إنها عليهم مؤصدة
Indeed, Hellfire will be closed down upon them
Verily, it shall be closed upon them,
It shall be made into a vault over them,
في عمد ممددة
In extended columns.
In pillars stretched forth (i.e. they will be punished in the Fire with pillars).
In columns outstretched.