Surah Al-Humazah (The Traducer) in English

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

1. ويل لكل همزة لمزة

   1

   Woe to every scandal-monger and slanderer,

   waylun li-kulli humazatin lumazatin-i

2. الذي جمع مالا وعدده

   2

   who amasses wealth and counts it over.

   alladhī jamaʿa mālan wa-ʿaddadahū

3. يحسب أن ماله أخلده

   3

   He supposes his wealth will make him immortal!

   yaḥsabu ʾanna mālahū ʾakhladahū

4. كلا لينبذن في الحطمة

   4

   No indeed! He will surely be cast into the Crusher.

   kallā la-yunbadhanna fī l-ḥuṭamati

5. وما أدراك ما الحطمة

   5

   And what will show you what is the Crusher?

   wa-mā ʾadrāka mā l-ḥuṭamatu

6. نار الله الموقدة

   6

   [It is] the fire of Allah, set ablaze,

   nāru llāhi l-mūqadatu

7. التي تطلع على الأفئدة

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   which will overspread the hearts.

   allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-ʾafʾidati

8. إنها عليهم مؤصدة

   8

   Indeed it will close in upon them

   ʾinnahā ʿalayhim muʾṣadatun

9. في عمد ممددة

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   in outstretched columns.

   fī ʿamadin mumaddadatin