The Backbiter

In the name of GOD, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīm

Woe to every backbiter, slanderer.

وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ

waylun likulli humazatin lumazati

He hoards money and counts it.

ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ

alladhī jamaʿa mālan waʿaddadah

As if his money will make him immortal.

يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ

yaḥsabu anna mālahu akhladah

Never; he will be thrown into the Devastator.

كَلَّا لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِى ٱلْحُطَمَةِ

kallā layunbadhanna fī l-ḥuṭamat

Do you know what the Devastator is?

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ

wamā adrāka mā l-ḥuṭamat

GOD's blazing Hellfire.

نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ

nāru l-lahi l-mūqadat

It burns them inside out.

ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ

allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-afidat

They will be confined therein.

إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

innahā ʿalayhim mu'ṣadatu

In extended columns.

فِى عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭ

fī ʿamadin mumaddadati