وَيۡلٞ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٖ لُّمَزَةٍ
Wretched is every slanderer, accuser! —
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!