Profit will distract you
right up until you all reach the graveyard.
But no, soon you will understand.
Really: soon you will understand.
If you only understood the truth
that you will experience hell.
You will see it for sure.
And then on that day you will be questioned about your luxuries.
Commentary
Fire and brimstone meets Sermon on the Mount.
Rhyme: fitting assonance on 'profit' and 'graveyard', both ending on - r sounds.
Significant repetition of 'soon', 'no' 'understand' and words around 'certainty' up the moral imperative. This is slightly lost in my translation as I choose to vary the translation of the words to achieve the sense of rising intensity, rather than conform to the Arabic which relies on simple restatement.
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