الهمزة

وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ ١

Waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin

Woe to every fault-finding backbiter

ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ ٢

Alladhī jamaʿa mālan waʿaddadahu

Who amasses riches, counting them over,

يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ ٣

Yaḥsabu anna mālahu akhladahu

Thinking they will make him live for ever.

كَلَّا ۖ لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِى ٱلْحُطَمَةِ ٤

Kallā layunbadhanna fī l-ḥuṭamati

No indeed! He will be thrust into the Crusher!

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ ٥

Wamā adrāka mā l-ḥuṭamatu

What will explain to you what the Crusher is?

نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ ٦

Nāru l-lahi l-mūqadatu

It is God’s Fire, made to blaze,

ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ ٧

Allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-afidati

Which rises over people’s hearts.

إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ ٨

Innahā ʿalayhim mu'ṣadatun

It closes in on them

فِى عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭ ٩

Fī ʿamadin mumaddadatin

In towering columns.