Quran 15:3 — Al-Hijr, verse 3
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
so [Prophet] leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let [false] hopes distract them: they will come to know.
ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا وَيُلْهِهِمُ الْأَمَلُ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ
dharhum yakulū wayatamattaʿū wayul'hihimu l-amalu fasawfa yaʿlamūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- leave them to eat, and to take their joy, and to be bemused by hope; certainly they will soon know!
- Muhammad Asad
- Leave them alone; let them eat and enjoy themselves the while the hope [of vain delights] be guiles them: for in time they will come to know [the truth].
- Sahih International
- Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ذَرْهُمْdharhum | Leave them | وذر |
| 2 | يَأْكُلُوا۟yakulū | (to) eat | أكل |
| 3 | وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا۟wayatamattaʿū | and enjoy | متع |
| 4 | وَيُلْهِهِمُwayul'hihimu | and diverted them | لهو |
| 5 | ٱلْأَمَلُ ۖl-amalu | the hope | أمل |
| 6 | فَسَوْفَfasawfa | then soon | — |
| 7 | يَعْلَمُونَyaʿlamūna | they will come to know | علم |