Woe to everyone who picks on you or gets at you,
who hoards a fortune and calculates its value
counting on it to save him from death.
Oh no! He's going to be utterly destroyed.
And do you want to know what that will be like?
A blaze God himself lit
that overwhelms hearts
and envelops them.
who hoards a fortune and calculates its value
counting on it to save him from death.
Oh no! He's going to be utterly destroyed.
And do you want to know what that will be like?
A blaze God himself lit
that overwhelms hearts
and envelops them.
Commentary
Another translation attempt is here where I try to bring out the heavy rhyme scheme. This is a surah that requires a little more flexibility in translation to capture the wrath of God sense whilst avoiding over-literalism. Thus I don't translate several repeated words and massage a word sometimes rendered 'the crusher' with a phrase instead: 'utterly destroyed'.
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