سورة التكاثر، الآية ٥
كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ ٱلْيَقِينِ ٥
kallā law taʿlamūna ʿil'ma l-yaqīni
No! If you only knew with knowledge of certainty...1981
[1981] The conclusion of this verse is estimated to be "...you would not have been distracted from preparing for the Hereafter."
Verse 5 of Surah At-Takathur (102:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 600 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Truly, if you were to know with certainty that you are to be resurrected to Allah, and that He will requite you for your actions, you would not become preoccupied with boasting with one another over wealth and offspring.
No indeed! If only you knew for certain1.
[1] The conclusion of this verse, "...you would not have been distracted from preparing for the Hereafter by wealth and children."
Nay! If you knew with a sure knowledge (the end result of piling up, you would not have been occupied yourselves in worldly things).
Nay, would that ye knew (now) with a sure knowledge!
Nay, were ye to know with certainty of mind, (ye would beware!)
Nay! if you had known with a certain knowledge,
Not at all! (But) if you know with the knowledge of certitude,
