Quran 2:96 — Al-Baqara, verse 96
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
[Prophet], you are sure to find them clinging to life more eagerly than any other people, even the polytheists. Any of them would wish to be given a life of a thousand years, though even such a long life would not save them from the torment: God sees everything they do.
وَلَتَجِدَنَّهُمْ أَحْرَصَ النَّاسِ عَلَىٰ حَيَاةٍ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا ۚ يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ أَنْ يُعَمَّرَ ۗ وَاللَّهُ بَصِيرٌ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ
walatajidannahum aḥraṣa l-nāsi ʿalā ḥayatin wamina alladhīna ashrakū yawaddu aḥaduhum law yuʿammaru alfa sanatin wamā huwa bimuzaḥziḥihi mina l-ʿadhābi an yuʿammara wal-lahu baṣīrun bimā yaʿmalūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- and thou shalt find them the eagerest of men for life. And of the idolaters; there is one of them wishes if he might be spared a thousand years, yet his being spared alive shall not remove him from the chastisement. God sees the things they do.
- Muhammad Asad
- And thou wilt most certainly find that they cling to life more eagerly than any other people, even more than those who are bent on ascribing divinity to other beings beside God: every one of them would love to live a thousand years, although the grant of long life could not save him from suffering [in the hereafter]: for God sees all that they do.
- Sahih International
- And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with Allāh. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allāh is Seeing of what they do.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَتَجِدَنَّهُمْwalatajidannahum | And surely you will find them | وجد |
| 2 | أَحْرَصَaḥraṣa | (the) most greedy | حرص |
| 3 | ٱلنَّاسِl-nāsi | (of) [the] mankind | نوس |
| 4 | عَلَىٰʿalā | for | — |
| 5 | حَيَوٰةٍۢḥayatin | life | حيي |
| 6 | وَمِنَwamina | and (greedier) than | — |
| 7 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those who | — |
| 8 | أَشْرَكُوا۟ ۚashrakū | associate[d] partners (with Allah) | شرك |
| 9 | يَوَدُّyawaddu | Loves | ودد |
| 10 | أَحَدُهُمْaḥaduhum | (each) one of them | أحد |
| 11 | لَوْlaw | if | — |
| 12 | يُعَمَّرُyuʿammaru | he could be granted a life | عمر |
| 13 | أَلْفَalfa | (of) a thousand | ألف |
| 14 | سَنَةٍۢsanatin | year(s) | سنو |
| 15 | وَمَاwamā | But not | — |
| 16 | هُوَhuwa | it | — |
| 17 | بِمُزَحْزِحِهِۦbimuzaḥziḥihi | (will) remove him | زحزح |
| 18 | مِنَmina | from | — |
| 19 | ٱلْعَذَابِl-ʿadhābi | the punishment | عذب |
| 20 | أَنan | that | — |
| 21 | يُعَمَّرَ ۗyuʿammara | he should be granted life | عمر |
| 22 | وَٱللَّهُwal-lahu | And Allah | أله |
| 23 | بَصِيرٌۢbaṣīrun | (is) All-Seer | بصر |
| 24 | بِمَاbimā | of what | — |
| 25 | يَعْمَلُونَyaʿmalūna | they do | عمل |