Woe to every fault-finding backbiter

who amasses riches, counting them over,

thinking they will make him live for ever.

No indeed! He will be thrust into the Crusher!

What will explain to you what the Crusher is?

It is God’s Fire, made to blaze,

which rises over people’s hearts.

It closes in on them

in towering columns.

وَيْلࣱ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةࣲ لُّمَزَةٍ

ٱلَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالࣰا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ

يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ

كَلَّاۖ لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِي ٱلْحُطَمَةِ

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ

نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ

ٱلَّتِي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ

إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةࣱ

فِي عَمَدࣲ مُّمَدَّدَةِۭ