Al-Humaza

Woe to every fault-finding backbiter

وَيْلٌ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍ

waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin

who amasses riches, counting them over,

الَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُ

alladhī jamaʿa mālan waʿaddadahu

thinking they will make him live for ever.

يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُ أَخْلَدَهُ

yaḥsabu anna mālahu akhladahu

No indeed! He will be thrust into the Crusher!

كَلَّا ۖ لَيُنْبَذَنَّ فِي الْحُطَمَةِ

kallā layunbadhanna fī l-ḥuṭamati

What will explain to you what the Crusher is?

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْحُطَمَةُ

wamā adrāka mā l-ḥuṭamatu

It is God’s Fire, made to blaze,

نَارُ اللَّهِ الْمُوقَدَةُ

nāru l-lahi l-mūqadatu

which rises over people’s hearts.

الَّتِي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْأَفْئِدَةِ

allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-afidati

It closes in on them

إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ مُؤْصَدَةٌ

innahā ʿalayhim mu'ṣadatun

in towering columns.

فِي عَمَدٍ مُمَدَّدَةٍ

fī ʿamadin mumaddadatin