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