Abundance diverts you,
Alhakumu alttakathuru
Competition in [worldly] increase diverts you
أَلْهَىٰكُمُ ٱلتَّكَاثُرُ
Chapter 102, 8 verses
Abundance diverts you,
Alhakumu alttakathuru
Competition in [worldly] increase diverts you
أَلْهَىٰكُمُ ٱلتَّكَاثُرُ
Until you come to the graves.
Hatta zurtumu almaqabira
Until you visit the graveyards.
حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ ٱلْمَقَابِرَ
Nay! you shall soon know,
Kalla sawfa taAAlamoona
No! You are going to know.
كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Nay! Nay! you shall soon know.
Thumma kalla sawfa taAAlamoona
Then no! You are going to know.
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Nay! if you had known with a certain knowledge,
Kalla law taAAlamoona AAilma alyaqeeni
No! If you only knew with knowledge of certainty...
كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ ٱلْيَقِينِ
You should most certainly have seen the hell;
Latarawunna aljaheema
You will surely see the Hellfire.
لَتَرَوُنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ
Then you shall most certainly see it with the eye of certainty;
Thumma latarawunnaha AAayna alyaqeeni
Then you will surely see it with the eye of certainty.
ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ ٱلْيَقِينِ
Then on that day you shall most certainly be questioned about the boons.
Thumma latusalunna yawmaithin AAani alnnaAAeemi
Then you will surely be asked that Day about pleasure.
ثُمَّ لَتُسْـَٔلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ