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