The Futility of Worldly Wealth as Ransom for Wrongdoers on the Day of Judgment

Az-Zumar — Verses 47–48 | Explore this Quran theme on Muallim

وَلَوْ أَنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ لَافْتَدَوْا بِهِ مِن سُوءِ الْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ۚ وَبَدَا لَهُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يَكُونُوا يَحْتَسِبُونَ ٤٧

And those who did wrong (the polytheists and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah), if they had all that is in earth and therewith as much again, they verily, would offer it to ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection from the evil torment, and there will become apparent to them from Allah, what they had not been reckoning.

وَلَوْ أَنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا
And those who did wrong (the polytheists and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah),
مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ
if they had all that is in earth and therewith as much again,
لَافْتَدَوْا بِهِ
they verily, would offer it to ransom themselves
مِن سُوءِ الْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ۚ
from the evil torment on the Day of Resurrection,
وَبَدَا لَهُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ
and there will become apparent to them from Allah,
مَا لَمْ يَكُونُوا يَحْتَسِبُونَ
what they had not been reckoning.

وَبَدَا لَهُمْ سَيِّئَاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ ٤٨

And the evils of that which they earned will become apparent to them, and they will be encircled by that which they used to mock at!

وَبَدَا لَهُمْ
And became apparent to them
سَيِّئَاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا
the evils of that which they earned
وَحَاقَ بِهِم
and they will be encircled by
مَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
that which they used to mock at