وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَخۡلُدُونَ ١٢٩
And take for yourselves constructions [i.e., palaces and fortresses] that you might abide eternally?
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
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- وَتَتَّخِذُونَAnd take for yourselveswatattakhidhūna
- مَصَانِعَstrongholdsmaṣāniʿa
- لَعَلَّكُمۡthat you maylaʿallakum
- تَخۡلُدُونَlive forevertakhludūna
Tafsir
“And why do you build forts and palaces as if you were to live forever in this world, never to depart from it?”
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran