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An-Nahl 96

Ayah 96 of 128 · Meccan

مَا عِندَكُمۡ يَنفَدُ وَمَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ بَاقٖۗ وَلَنَجۡزِيَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ صَبَرُوٓاْ أَجۡرَهُم بِأَحۡسَنِ مَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ ٩٦

Whatever you have will end, but what Allāh has is lasting. And We will surely give those who were patient their reward according to the best of what they used to do.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. مَاWhatevermā
  2. عِندَكُمۡ(is) with youʿindakum
  3. يَنفَدُwill be exhaustedyanfadu
  4. وَمَاand whateverwamā
  5. عِندَ(is) withʿinda
  6. ٱللَّهِAllahl-lahi
  7. بَاقٖۗ(will) be remainingbāqin
  8. وَلَنَجۡزِيَنَّAnd surely We will paywalanajziyanna
  9. ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
  10. صَبَرُوٓاْ(are) patientṣabarū
  11. أَجۡرَهُمtheir rewardajrahum
  12. بِأَحۡسَنِto (the) bestbi-aḥsani
  13. مَا(of) whatmā
  14. كَانُواْthey used (to)kānū
  15. يَعۡمَلُونَdoyaʿmalūna

Tafsir

The wealth, pleasures and luxuries that you have - O people - will come to an end no matter how much it may be, but the reward that is with Allah will remain. How then do you give preference to that which is perishable over that which is lasting? We will certainly reward those who remain steadfast on their oaths and who do not break them according to the best of their good deeds by multiplying its reward by ten times up to seven hundred times or even more.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran