سورة الأنبياء، الآية ١١١
وَإِنْ أَدْرِى لَعَلَّهُۥ فِتْنَةٌ لَّكُمْ وَمَتَٰعٌ إِلَىٰ حِينٍ ١١١
wa-in adrī laʿallahu fit'natun lakum wamatāʿun ilā ḥīnin
And I know not; perhaps it912 is a trial for you and enjoyment for a time."
[912] The postponement of punishment.
Verse 111 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:111), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 331 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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I do not know whether your respite from being punished is a test for you, or whether it is to lure you further into destruction, and to give you freedom until a time decreed in the Knowledge of Allah, so that you persist in your disbelief and error.
I do not know; perhaps this [delay]48 is a test for you49 and an enjoyment for a while.”
[48] i.e., this postponement of punishment.
[49] To increase sin.
And I know not, perhaps it may be a trial for you, and an enjoyment for a while.
And I know not but that this may be a trial for you, and enjoyment for a while.
"I know not but that it may be a trial for you, and a grant of (worldly) livelihood (to you) for a time."
And I do not know if this may be a trial for you and a provision till a time.
And decidedly I do not realize (that) perhaps it would be a temptation for you, and an enjoyment for a while." (i.e., your disbelief)
