Quran 9:69 — At-Tawba, verse 69
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
‘You are like those who lived before you: they were even stronger than you, with more wealth and children; they enjoyed their share in this life as you have enjoyed yours; like them, you have indulged in idle talk.’ Their deeds go to waste in this world and the next; it is they who will lose all in the life to come.
كَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ كَانُوا أَشَدَّ مِنْكُمْ قُوَّةً وَأَكْثَرَ أَمْوَالًا وَأَوْلَادًا فَاسْتَمْتَعُوا بِخَلَاقِهِمْ فَاسْتَمْتَعْتُمْ بِخَلَاقِكُمْ كَمَا اسْتَمْتَعَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ بِخَلَاقِهِمْ وَخُضْتُمْ كَالَّذِي خَاضُوا ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ حَبِطَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ ۖ وَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ
ka-alladhīna min qablikum kānū ashadda minkum quwwatan wa-akthara amwālan wa-awlādan fa-is'tamtaʿū bikhalāqihim fa-is'tamtaʿtum bikhalāqikum kamā is'tamtaʿa alladhīna min qablikum bikhalāqihim wakhuḍ'tum ka-alladhī khāḍū ulāika ḥabiṭat aʿmāluhum fī l-dun'yā wal-ākhirati wa-ulāika humu l-khāsirūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- those before you, who were stronger than you in might, and more abundant in wealth and children; they took enjoyment in their share; so do you take enjoyment in your share, as those before you took enjoyment in their share. You have plunged as they plunged. Those -- their works have failed in this world and in the world to come; those -- they are the losers.
- Muhammad Asad
- [Say unto them: "You are] like those [hypocrites] who lived before your time. Greater than you were they in power, and richer in wealth and in children; and they enjoyed their share [of happiness]. And you have been enjoying your share -just as those who preceded you enjoyed their share; and you have been indulging in scurrilous talk -just as they indulged in it. It is they whose works have come to nought in this world and in the life to come - and it is they, they who are the cost!"
- Sahih International
- [You disbelievers are] like those before you; they were stronger than you in power and more abundant in wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion [of worldly enjoyment], and you have enjoyed your portion as those before you enjoyed their portion, and you have engaged [in vanities] like that in which they engaged. [It is] those whose deeds have become worthless in this world and in the Hereafter, and it is they who are the losers.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | كَٱلَّذِينَka-alladhīna | Like those | — |
| 2 | مِنmin | before you | — |
| 3 | قَبْلِكُمْqablikum | before you | قبل |
| 4 | كَانُوٓا۟kānū | they were | كون |
| 5 | أَشَدَّashadda | mightier | شدد |
| 6 | مِنكُمْminkum | than you | — |
| 7 | قُوَّةًۭquwwatan | (in) strength | قوي |
| 8 | وَأَكْثَرَwa-akthara | and more abundant | كثر |
| 9 | أَمْوَٰلًۭاamwālan | (in) wealth | مول |
| 10 | وَأَوْلَـٰدًۭاwa-awlādan | and children | ولد |
| 11 | فَٱسْتَمْتَعُوا۟fa-is'tamtaʿū | So they enjoyed | متع |
| 12 | بِخَلَـٰقِهِمْbikhalāqihim | their portion | خلق |
| 13 | فَٱسْتَمْتَعْتُمfa-is'tamtaʿtum | and you have enjoyed | متع |
| 14 | بِخَلَـٰقِكُمْbikhalāqikum | your portion | خلق |
| 15 | كَمَاkamā | like | — |
| 16 | ٱسْتَمْتَعَis'tamtaʿa | enjoyed | متع |
| 17 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those | — |
| 18 | مِنmin | before you | — |
| 19 | قَبْلِكُمqablikum | before you | قبل |
| 20 | بِخَلَـٰقِهِمْbikhalāqihim | their portion | خلق |
| 21 | وَخُضْتُمْwakhuḍ'tum | and you indulge | خوض |
| 22 | كَٱلَّذِىka-alladhī | like the one who | — |
| 23 | خَاضُوٓا۟ ۚkhāḍū | indulges (in idle talk) | خوض |
| 24 | أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَulāika | Those | — |
| 25 | حَبِطَتْḥabiṭat | worthless | حبط |
| 26 | أَعْمَـٰلُهُمْaʿmāluhum | (are) their deeds | عمل |
| 27 | فِىfī | in | — |
| 28 | ٱلدُّنْيَاl-dun'yā | the world | دنو |
| 29 | وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ ۖwal-ākhirati | and (in) the Hereafter | أخر |
| 30 | وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَwa-ulāika | And those | — |
| 31 | هُمُhumu | they | — |
| 32 | ٱلْخَـٰسِرُونَl-khāsirūna | (are) the losers | خسر |