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