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