فَلۡيَضۡحَكُواْ قَلِيلٗا وَلۡيَبۡكُواْ كَثِيرٗا جَزَآءَۢ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡسِبُونَ ٨٢
So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense for what they used to earn.
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
Word by word
Each word's meaning and sound
- فَلۡيَضۡحَكُواْSo let them laughfalyaḍḥakū
- قَلِيلٗاa littleqalīlan
- وَلۡيَبۡكُواْand let them weepwalyabkū
- كَثِيرٗاmuchkathīran
- جَزَآءَۢ(as) a recompensejazāan
- بِمَاfor whatbimā
- كَانُواْthey used tokānū
- يَكۡسِبُونَearnyaksibūna
Tafsir
Let these hypocrites, who failed to strive in Allah’s path, laugh a little in their temporary life of the world and let them cry much in their everlasting life of the Afterlife in return for the disbelief and sins they committed in the world.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran