Sura 3 Ali 'Imran (Family of Imran), ayah 117
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مَثَلُ مَا يُنْفِقُونَ فِي هَٰذِهِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ رِيحٍ فِيهَا صِرٌّ أَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ ۚ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَلَٰكِنْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
Translation by words
- مَثَلُ
- Example
- مَا
- (of) what
- يُنفِقُونَ
- they spend
- فِى
- in
- هَٰذِهِ
- this
- ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ
- [the] life
- ٱلدُّنْيَا
- (of) the world
- كَمَثَلِ
- (is) like (the) example
- رِيحٍ
- (of) a wind
- فِيهَا
- in it
- صِرٌّ
- (is) frost,
- أَصَابَتْ
- it struck
- حَرْثَ
- (the) harvest
- قَوْمٍ
- (of) a people
- ظَلَمُوٓا۟
- who wronged
- أَنفُسَهُمْ
- themselves,
- فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ
- then destroyed it.
- وَمَا
- And not
- ظَلَمَهُمُ
- (has) wronged them
- ٱللَّهُ
- Allah
- وَلَٰكِنْ
- [and] but
- أَنفُسَهُمْ
- themselves
- يَظْلِمُونَ
- they wronged.
The example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves and destroys it. And Allah has not wronged them, but they wrong themselves.
3:117
Translation: Saheeh International