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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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
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.
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.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Hijr
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
ذَرْهُمْ
dharhum Leave them و ذ ر
يَأْكُلُوا۟
yakulū (to) eat أ ك ل
وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا۟
wayatamattaʿū and enjoy م ت ع
وَيُلْهِهِمُ
wayul'hihimu and diverted them ل ه و
ٱلْأَمَلُ
l-amalu the hope أ م ل
فَسَوْفَ
fasawfa then soon
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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Surah Al-Hijr
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