102 - Al-Takathur
"Audhu billahi minash shaytanirrajeem"
Bismi Llaahi l-raḥmaani l-raḥeem
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Alhakumu alttakathuru;
Greed (for wealth and offspring) deceived and amused you!
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Hatta zurtumu almaqabira;
Even when you visited the graves...
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Kalla sawfa taAAlamoona;
But no! Soon (with death) you will know.
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Thumma kalla sawfa taAAlamoona;
Again no! Soon you will know.
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Kalla law taAAlamoona AAilma alyaqeeni;
No! If only you had established your certainty through knowledge (before death)...
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Latarawunna aljaheema;
Indeed, you will definitely see the Hell!
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Thumma latarawunnaha AAayna alyaqeeni;
Indeed, you will most certainly see it (Hell) with the eye of certainty.
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Thumma latusalunna yawmaithin AAani alnnaAAeemi;
Then indeed, at that time you will be asked about your blessings.
I seek refuge in the protective forces of the Names of Allah comprising my Essence from impulses generated by the accursed and rejected (rajim) Satan, which, as a result of preconditioning, causes our sense of illusion to perceive the existent as non-existent and the non-existent as existent, thereby making man believe he is an independent being and body outside the Names of Allah, directing man to the idea of an external deity-God in the heavens.
By the one who is denoted by the name Allah (who created my being with His Names in accord with the meaning of the letter ‘B’), the Rahman, the Rahim.