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Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 3

سورة الحجر، الآية ٣

15:3 Juz 14 Hizb 27 Page 262 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 15:3

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا۟ وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ وَيُلْهِهِمُ ٱلْأَمَلُ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ ۝٣

Transliteration

dharhum yakulū wayatamattaʿū wayul'hihimu l-amalu fasawfa yaʿlamūna

Translation

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.

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Verse 3 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:3), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 262 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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Tafsir of verse 3

Al-Mukhtasar

O Messenger, leave these beliers to eat as the beasts eat, and to avail themselves of the finite pleasures of the world and let their hopes distract them from faith and righteous actions. They will come to know the loss they are in when they face Allah on the Day of Judgement.

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Other translations of verse 3

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted with false hope; they will come to know.

Leave them to eat and enjoy, and let them be preoccupied with (false) hope. They will come to know!

Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know!

Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them).

Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves and (that) hope may beguile them, for they will soon know.

Leave them out to eat and enjoy (life), and let (false) aspiration divert them; then eventually they will know.

Verse 3 word by word

  1. ذَرْهُمْ dharhum Leave them و ذ ر
  2. يَأْكُلُوا۟ yakulū (to) eat أ ك ل
  3. وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ wayatamattaʿū and enjoy م ت ع
  4. وَيُلْهِهِمُ wayul'hihimu and diverted them ل ه و
  5. ٱلْأَمَلُ l-amalu the hope أ م ل
  6. فَسَوْفَ fasawfa then soon
  7. يَعْلَمُونَ yaʿlamūna they will come to know ع ل م

Verses related to verse 3

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Ibrahim 14:30

    وَجَعَلُوا۟ لِلَّهِ أَندَادًا لِّيُضِلُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ قُلْ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ فَإِنَّ مَصِيرَكُمْ إِلَى ٱلنَّارِ

    And they have attributed to Allāh equals to mislead [people] from His way. Say, "Enjoy yourselves, for indeed, your destination is the Fire."

  • Al-Mursalat 77:46

    كُلُوا۟ وَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُم مُّجْرِمُونَ

    [O disbelievers], eat and enjoy yourselves a little; indeed, you are criminals.

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