104al-HumazahThe Slandererسُورَةُ الهمزة

Makkan · 9 ayat · 32nd in order of revelation

بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

وَيۡلٞ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٖ لُّمَزَةٍ 

Wretched is every slanderer, accuser! —

ٱلَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالٗا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ 

Who amasses wealth and counts it a safeguard,

يَحۡسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخۡلَدَهُۥ 

Thinking that his wealth shall make him live forever!

كـَلَّاۖ لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِي ٱلۡحُطَمَةِ 

Certainly not, for [in life after death] he shall be ejected into a crushingly severe affliction!

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡحُطَمَةُ 

And what would apprize you of this crushingly severe affliction?

نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلۡمُوقَدَةُ 

[It is] Allah’s kindled fire,

ٱلَّتِي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلۡأَفۡـِٔدَةِ 

Which will hover over the [guilty] stream of consciousness:

إِنَّهَا عَلَيۡهِم مُّؤۡصَدَةٞ 

Verily, it will solidly lock them up and confine them

فِي عَمَدٖ مُّمَدَّدَةِۭ 

Within straddling columns!