سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٢٩
وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَخْلُدُونَ ١٢٩
watattakhidhūna maṣāniʿa laʿallakum takhludūna
And take for yourselves constructions [i.e., palaces and fortresses] that you might abide eternally?
Verse 129 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:129), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 372 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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“And why do you build forts and palaces as if you were to live forever in this world, never to depart from it?”
And do you construct for yourselves palaces, hoping that you will live forever?
"And do you get for yourselves palaces (fine buildings) as if you will live therein for ever.2
[2] (V.26:129) See the footnote (C) of (V.9:111).
And seek ye out strongholds, that haply ye may last for ever?
"And do ye get for yourselves fine buildings in the hope of living therein (for ever)?
And you make strong fortresses that perhaps you may
And do you take to yourselves castles (Or: huge buildings and tombs) that possibly you may abide eternally?
