Know that the present life is but a sport and a diversion, an adornment and a cause for boasting among you, and a rivalry in wealth and children. It is as a rain whose vegetation pleases the unbelievers; then it withers, and thou seest it turning yellow, then it becomes broken orts. And in the world to come there is a terrible chastisement, and forgiveness from God and good pleasure; and the present life is but the joy of delusion.
بدانيد كه زندگى دنيا بازى و سرگرمى و زينت و فخرفروشى شما به يكديگر و فزون خواهى در اموال و فرزندان است. [مثل آنها] مثل بارانى است كه رويش [گياهان‌] آن كشاورزان را به شگفت آورد، سپس خشك و پژمرده شود و ببينى كه زرد گشته و آن‌گاه خاشاك شود، و در آخرت [د