Surah 6. Al-An'am, Ayah 70
| وَذَرِ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا دِينَهُمْ لَعِبًا وَلَهْوًا وَغَرَّتْهُمُ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا ۚ وَذَكِّرْ بِهِ أَنْ تُبْسَلَ نَفْسٌ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ لَيْسَ لَهَا مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيٌّ وَلَا شَفِيعٌ وَإِنْ تَعْدِلْ كُلَّ عَدْلٍ لَا يُؤْخَذْ مِنْهَا ۗ أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ أُبْسِلُوا بِمَا كَسَبُوا ۖ لَهُمْ شَرَابٌ مِنْ حَمِيمٍ وَعَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْفُرُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- dhar 'alladhena ittakhadho den -hum lacib(an) wa- lahw(an) wa- gharrat -hum al- h.ayaah ad- dunyaa wa- dhakkir bi- -hi 'an tubsal nafs bi- maa kasabat laysa la- -haa min doni 'allaah waley wa- laa shafec wa- 'in tacdil kull cadl laa yu'khadh min -haa 'olaa'ika 'alladhena ubsilo bi- maa kasabo la- -hum sharaab min h.amem wa- cadhaab 'alem bi- maa kaano yakfuron |
| Pickthall | : | And forsake those who take their religion for a pastime and a jest, and whom the life of the world beguileth. Remind (mankind) hereby lest a soul be destroyed by what it earneth. It hath beside Allah no friend nor intercessor, and though it offer every compensation it will not be accepted from it. Those are they who perish by their own deserts. For them is drink of boiling water and a painful doom, because they disbelieved. |
| Asad | : | And leave to themselves all those who, beguiled by the life of this world, have made play and passing delights their religion;60 but remind [them] herewith that [in the life to come] every human being shall be held in pledge for whatever wrong he has done, and shall have none to protect him from God, and none to intercede for him; and though he offer any conceivable ransom,61 it shall not be accepted from him. It is [people such as] these that shall be held in pledge for the wrong they have done; for them there is [in the life to come] a draught of burning despair,62 and grievous suffering awaits them because of their persistent refusal to acknowledge the truth. |
| Malik | : | Leave those people alone, who take their religion as mere play and amusement and are deceived by the life of this world. However, keep on admonishing them with this (The Qur'an), lest their souls be damned by their own sinful deeds. They will not have any protector or intercessor to rescue them from Allah, and if they seek to offer every imaginable ransom, it shall not be accepted from them. Such are those who are damned by their own sinful deeds. They will get boiling water to drink and painful torture for their rejection of the Truth. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or intercessor except Allah: if it offered every ransom (or reparation) none will be accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: they will have for drink (only) boiling water and for punishment one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting Allah. 893 894 |
Note - 60The phrase attakhadhu dinahum la'iban wa-lahwan can be
understood in either of two ways: (l) "they have made
their religion [an object of] play and fun", or (2) "they
have made play and fun [or "passing delights"] their
religion" - i.e., the main goal of their lives. To my
mind, the latter reading is definitely preferable
inasmuch as it brings out the fact that many of those who
are "beguiled by the life of this world" devote
themselves to the pursuit of what the Qur'an describes as
"passing delights" - including the pleasures which money
and power can provide - with something akin to religious
fervour: an attitude of mind which causes them to lose
sight of all spiritual and moral values.
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Note - 61Lit., "though he might [try to] ransom himself with all
ransom" - i.e., though he might proffer, after
resurrection, any atonement whatever for his past sins.
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Note - 62Among the various meanings attributable to the word hamim
are the concepts of intense heat as well as of painful
cold (Qamus, Taj al-'Arus). In the eschatology of the
Qur'an it invariably refers to the suffering of the
sinners in the life to come, and since all Qur'anic
references to life after death are, necessarily,
allegorical, the term hamim may be rendered as "burning
despair".
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Note - 893Cf. vi 32. where we are told that the life of this world
is mere play and amusement, and Religion and the
Hereafter are the serious things that require our
attention. Worldly people reverse this because they are
deceived by the allurements of this life. But their own
acts will find them out.
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Note - 894We must never forget our own personal responsibility for
all we do, or deceive ourselves by the illusion of
vicarious atonement.
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The phrase attakhadhu dinahum la'iban wa-lahwan can be understood in either of two ways: (l) "they have made their religion [an object of] play and fun", or (2) "they have made play and fun [or "passing delights"] their religion" - i.e., the main goal of their lives. To my mind, the latter reading is definitely preferable inasmuch as it brings out the fact that many of those who are "beguiled by the life of this world" devote themselves to the pursuit of what the Qur'an describes as "passing delights" - including the pleasures which money and power can provide - with something akin to religious fervour: an attitude of mind which causes them to lose sight of all spiritual and moral values. |
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Lit., "though he might [try to] ransom himself with all ransom" - i.e., though he might proffer, after resurrection, any atonement whatever for his past sins. |
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Among the various meanings attributable to the word hamim are the concepts of intense heat as well as of painful cold (Qamus, Taj al-'Arus). In the eschatology of the Qur'an it invariably refers to the suffering of the sinners in the life to come, and since all Qur'anic references to life after death are, necessarily, allegorical, the term hamim may be rendered as "burning despair". |
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Cf. vi 32. where we are told that the life of this world is mere play and amusement, and Religion and the Hereafter are the serious things that require our attention. Worldly people reverse this because they are deceived by the allurements of this life. But their own acts will find them out. |
