Ash-Shu'ara Verse 207

would that enjoyment be of any benefit to them ˹at all˺?

what would avail them the life of ease that they were given?

what will it then avail them, the enjoyment of days they were given?

what good would their past enjoyment be to them?

What shall that which they enjoyed avail them?

It will profit them not that they enjoyed (this life)!

of what avail will be the provisions of life which they have been granted to enjoy?

Of what avail shall their enjoyment be to them?

So of what benefit will be the comforts that they were using?

of what avail to them will be that which they were given to enjoy?

It will be of no avail to them at all (that their lives of enjoyment were prolonged).

That (respite) which they were allowed to enjoy will be of no avail to them?

What they were being made to enjoy did not enrich/suffice (benefit) from them.

So of what benefit will be the comforts that they were using?

And then there comes to them that which they are promised,

All that with which they used to enjoy shall not avail them.

Seest thou, if We let them enjoy themselves for years,

That which they were made to enjoy shall not avail them?

(How) that wherewith they were contented naught availeth them?

none of their luxuries will be able to save them from the torment?

what avail will their past enjoyments be to them?

All that with which they used to enjoy shall not avail them.

of what avail would their past enjoyment be to them?

Of what avail to them will be their past enjoyments?

in what way (m here is interrogative) would that enjoyment which they were given avail them?, in averting the chastisement or mitigating it? It would be of no avail!

Think, if We do let them enjoy for years, and afterwards comes to them that which they had been promised, all that with which they used to enjoy shall not avail them.

meaning, `even if We delay the matter and give them respite for a short while or for a long time, then the punishment of Allah comes upon them, what good will their life of luxury do them then.'

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُواْ إِلاَّ عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَـهَا

The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning. (79;46)

And Allah says;

يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ أَن يُعَمَّرَ

Everyone of them wishes that he could be given a life of a thousand years. But the grant of such life will not save him even a little from punishment. (2;96)

وَمَا يُغْنِى عَنْهُ مَالُهُ إِذَا تَرَدَّى

And what will his wealth avail him when he goes down. (92;11)

Allah says here;

مَا أَغْنَى عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يُمَتَّعُونَ


All that with which they used to enjoy shall not avail them.

According to an authentic Hadith;

يُوْتَى بِالْكَافِرِ فَيُغْمَسُ فِي النَّارِ غَمْسَةً ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ خَيْرًا قَطُّ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ نَعِيمًا قَطُّ فَيَقُولُ لَا وَاللهِ يَا رَبِّ وَيُوتَى بِأَشَدِّ النَّاسِ بُوْسًا كَانَ فِي الدُّنْيَا فَيُصْبَغُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ صَبْغَةً ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ َهلْ رَأَيْتَ بُوْسًا قَطُّ فَيَقُولُ لَا وَاللهِ يَا رَب

The disbelievers will be brought and once dipped into the Fire, then it will be said to him;

"Did you ever see anything good!

Did you ever see anything good!"

He will say, "No, O Lord!"

Then the most miserable person who ever lived on earth will be brought, and he will be put in Paradise for a brief spell, then it will be said to him, "Did you ever see anything bad!"

He will say, "No, O Lord."

meaning;as if nothing ever happened.

Then Allah tells us of His justice towards His creation, in that He does not destroy any nation until after He has left them with no excuse, by warning them, sending Messengers to them and establishing proof against them.

He says;

وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ إِلاَّ لَهَا مُنذِرُونَ