Text of verse 104:3
يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ ٣
Transliteration
yaḥsabu anna mālahu akhladahu
Translation
He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Humazah, Verse 3
سورة الهمزة، الآية ٣
Verse 3 of Surah Al-Humazah (104:3), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 601 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Full Surah Al-Humazah by: Mahmoud Khalil Al-HussarySaad Al-GhamdiAbdul Rahman Al-SudaisMaher Al-MuaiqlyMishary Rashid AlafasyAbdul Basit Abdul Samad
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Tafsir of verse 3
Al-Mukhtasar
He thinks that the wealth of his he amasses will save him from death, and that he will remain forever in this worldly life.
Other translations of verse 3
thinking that his wealth will make him live forever.
He thinks that his wealth will make him last forever!
He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal.
Thinking that his wealth would make him last for ever!
He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.
He reckons that his wealth has made him eternal!
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Sunan Abu Dawud 3995
I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) reading the verse; "does he think that his wealth would make him last for ever?"
يَقْرَأُ { يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُ أَخْلَدَهُ }