سورة سبإ، الآية ٣٥
وَقَالُوا۟ نَحْنُ أَكْثَرُ أَمْوَٰلًا وَأَوْلَٰدًا وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ ٣٥
waqālū naḥnu aktharu amwālan wa-awlādan wamā naḥnu bimuʿadhabīna
And they1235 said, "We are more [than the believers] in wealth and children, and we are not to be punished."
[1235] The affluent ones in general or the people of Makkah specifically.
Verse 35 of Surah Saba (34:35), a Meccan surah, is in juz 22, on page 432 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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And these people of fame said braggingly and boastfully: “We are more in wealth and more in children. And your claim that we will be punished is a lie, as we will not be punished in this world nor in the Hereafter”.
They20 said, “We have greater wealth and more children, and we will not be punished”.
[20] i.e., the affluent ones of the people of Makkah and others.
And they say: "We are more in wealth and in children, and we are not going to be punished."
And they say: We are more (than you) in wealth and children. We are not the punished!
They said: "We have more in wealth and in sons, and we cannot be punished."
And they say: We have more wealth and children, and we shall not be punished.
And they said, "We are more (than you) in riches and children, and in no way will we be tormented".
أَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّمَا نُمِدُّهُم بِهِۦ مِن مَّالٍ وَبَنِينَ …
Do they think that what We extend to them of wealth and children …
فَلَا تُعْجِبْكَ أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُهُمْ إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُم بِهَا فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَتَزْهَقَ أَنفُسُهُمْ وَهُمْ كَٰفِرُونَ
So let not their wealth or their children impress you. Allāh only intends to punish them through them in worldly life and that their souls should depart [at death] while they are disbelievers.
ذَرْنِى وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا …
Leave Me with the one I created alone …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ
And we are not to be punished."
