Chapter 104, 9 verses
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,
Woe to every scorner and mocker
Who has gathered wealth and counted it.
Who pileth up wealth and layeth it by,
Who collects wealth and [continuously] counts it.
He thinks that his wealth will make him last forever!
Thinking that his wealth would make him last for ever!
He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.
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,
No! He will surely be thrown into the Crusher.
And what will make you know what the crushing Fire is?
And what will explain to thee That which Breaks to Pieces?
And what can make you know what is the Crusher?
The fire of Allah kindled,
(It is) the Fire of (the Wrath of) Allah kindled (to a blaze),
It is the fire of Allah, [eternally] fueled,
Which leaps up over the hearts,
The which doth mount (Right) to the Hearts:
Which mounts directed at the hearts.
Verily, it shall be closed upon them,
It shall be made into a vault over them,
Indeed, Hellfire will be closed down upon them
In pillars stretched forth (i.e. they will be punished in the Fire with pillars).
In columns outstretched.
In extended columns.