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Al-Isra 18

Ayah 18 of 111 · Meccan

مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلۡعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلۡنَا لَهُۥ فِيهَا مَا نَشَآءُ لِمَن نُّرِيدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلۡنَا لَهُۥ جَهَنَّمَ يَصۡلَىٰهَا مَذۡمُومٗا مَّدۡحُورٗا ١٨

Whoever should desire the immediate1 - We hasten for him from it what We will to whom We intend. Then We have made for him Hell, which he will [enter to] burn, censured and banished.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 i.e., worldly gratifications.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. مَّنWhoeverman
  2. كَانَshouldkāna
  3. يُرِيدُdesireyurīdu
  4. ٱلۡعَاجِلَةَthe immediatel-ʿājilata
  5. عَجَّلۡنَاWe hastenʿajjalnā
  6. لَهُۥfor himlahu
  7. فِيهَاin itfīhā
  8. مَاwhatmā
  9. نَشَآءُWe willnashāu
  10. لِمَنto whomliman
  11. نُّرِيدُWe intendnurīdu
  12. ثُمَّThenthumma
  13. جَعَلۡنَاWe have madejaʿalnā
  14. لَهُۥfor himlahu
  15. جَهَنَّمَHelljahannama
  16. يَصۡلَىٰهَاhe will burnyaṣlāhā
  17. مَذۡمُومٗاdisgracedmadhmūman
  18. مَّدۡحُورٗاrejectedmadḥūran

Tafsir

Whoever desires, by his acts of goodness, the life of the world and does not have faith in the afterlife nor pays any attention to it, I expedite for him the luxury that I want to give him, not what he wants. Then I have made for him Hell, where he will enter on the Day of Judgment to suffer from its heat, being condemned for his choosing the world and his denial of the Hearafter; banished from Allah’s mercy.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran