Quran 9 : 55

So (let) not impress you their wealth and not their children. Only intends Allah to punish them with it in the life (of) the world, and should depart their souls while they (are) disbelievers.
فَلَا
Falā
تُعْجِبْكَ
Tuʿjibka
أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ
Aamwaāluhum
وَلَآ
Walaa
أَوْلَٰدُهُمْ
Aawlaāduhum
إِنَّمَا
Iinnamā
يُرِيدُ
Yurīdu
ٱللَّهُ
Allahu
لِيُعَذِّبَهُم
Liyuʿadhdhibahum
بِهَا
Bihā
فِى
Fiā
ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ
Alḥayawāhi
ٱلدُّنْيَا
Addunyā
وَتَزْهَقَ
Watazhaqa
أَنفُسُهُمْ
Aanfusuhum
وَهُمْ
Wahum
كَٰفِرُونَ
Kaāfirūna

Ahmed Ali

Do not marvel at their wealth and children. God intends to punish them through these in the world; and their souls will depart in a state of disbelief

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Let not their wealth or their children impress you. God intends to torment them with them in this life, and their souls depart while they are unbelievers.

Musharraf Hussain

Don’t be impressed by their wealth and children: Allah wishes to torment them with these in their worldly life, and allow their souls to perish as disbelievers

Bakhtiari Nejad

So do not let their wealth and their children impress you, God only wants to punish them with it in this world’s life, and they die while they are disbelievers.

Muhammad Sarwar

Let not their property and children tempt you; God wants to punish them through their things in this life so that their souls will depart while they are unbelievers

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Let neither their wealth nor their children please you. Through these Allah seeks to punish them in this life, and that their souls depart while they are unbelievers

Aisha Bewley

Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely wants to punish them by them during their life in this world and for them to expire while they are kuffar.

Linda "iLham" Barto

Do not let their wealth or their children impress you. Allah plans to punish them with these things in this life so that their souls will depart in a state of unbelief.

Mustaqim

So do not be amazed by their wealth nor by their children, for Allah wants to punish them with it in the life of this world and let them die whilst rejecting (the truth).

Faridul Haque

So let not their riches or their children surprise you; Allah only intends to punish them in the life of this world with these things and that they die only as disbelievers

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

So do not be impressed by their wealth or children; God only wishes to punish them with it in the worldly life, and so that their souls will be taken while they are rejecters.

Safi Kaskas

Do not let their worldly goods or their children impress you. God intends to punish them with it in this world, and for their souls to depart while they are still unbelievers.

Syed Vickar Ahamed

So let not their wealth, nor their sons amaze you: In reality, Allah’s Plan is to punish them with these things in this life, and that their souls may die as disbelievers

T.B.Irving

Do not let their wealth nor children astonish you; God only wants to punish them by means of them during worldly life and for their souls to perish while they are disbelievers.

Ali Quli Qara'i

So let not their wealth and children impress you: Allah only desires to punish them with these in the life of this world, and that their souls may depart while they are faithless

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Let not their wealth nor their children dazzle you. In reality, God's plan is to punish them with these things in this life, and that their souls may perish in their denial of God

The Wise Quran

So let not their wealth please you nor their children, God only desires to punish them with it in the worldly life, and that their souls may pass away while they are disbelievers.

Ali Ünal

Let neither their wealth nor their children impress you. God only wills thereby to punish them in the life of this world and that their souls will depart while they are unbelievers

Talal Itani (2012)

Let neither their possessions nor their children impress you. God intends to torment them through them in this worldly life, and that their souls depart while they are disbelievers

Mohammad Shafi

Let not their wealth and their children then impress you. Allah wishes only to punish them with these, in this life, and to cause their souls to depart while they suppress the Truth

Edward Henry Palmer

Let not their wealth please you nor their children, God only wishes to torment them therewith in the life of this world, and that their souls may pass away while still they misbelieve

Hamid S. Aziz

Let not their wealth nor their children please you. Allah only wishes to punish them therewith in the life of this world, and that their souls may pass away while still they disbelieve

Irving/Hegab

Do not let their wealth nor children astonish you; Allah (God) only wants to punish them by means of them during worldly life and for their souls to perish while they are disbelievers.

Amatul Rahman Omar

So let not their riches nor their children make you wonder. Allah only intends to punish them therewith in the present life and (that) their souls may depart while they are disbelievers

Arthur John Arberry

So let not their possessions or their children please thee; God only desires thereby to chastise them in this present life, and that their souls should depart while they are unbelievers

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

So let not their wealth impress thee nor their children. God wants only to punish them in this present life and so that their souls depart while they are ones who are ungrateful.

Sher Ali

So let not their wealth nor their children excite thy wonder. ALLAH only intends to punish them therewith in the present life and that their souls may depart while they are disbelievers

The Study Quran

And let not their wealth or their children impress thee. God desires but to punish them thereby in the life of this world, and that their souls should depart while they are disbelievers

Abdel Haleem

So [Prophet] do not let their possessions or their children impress you: through these God intends to punish them in this world and for their souls to depart while they disbelieve

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Let not wherefore their riches and their children amaze thee. Allah intendeth only to torment them therewith in the life of the world and that their souls pass away while they are infidels

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

So, their wealth and their children should not attract you. In fact, Allah intends to punish them with these in this lowly life and that their souls should depart while they are disbelievers

Rashad Khalifa

Do not be impressed by their money, or their children. GOD causes these to be sources of retribution for them in this life, and (when they die) their souls depart while they are disbelievers.

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Then let not their wealth and their children astonish you. Allah only intends to punish them with these things in the life of the world and that their souls may depart while they are infidels.

Samy Mahdy

So, do not admire either their money or their progeny. Allah just only wants to torment them by it in the Dunya (this worldly) life, and that their souls are vanishing while they are infidels.

Maududi

Let neither their riches nor their children excite your admiration. Allah only wants to chastise them through these things in the present life, and to cause them to die while they are unbelievers

N J Dawood 2014

So let neither their riches nor their children make you wonder. Through these God seeks to punish them in the life of this world, so that their souls shall perish while they are still in unbelief

John Medows Rodwell

Let not, therefore, their riches or their children amaze thee. God is only minded to punish them by means of these, in this life present, and that their souls may depart while they are unbelievers

Shakir

Let not then their property and their children excite your admiration; Allah only wishes to chastise them with these in this world's life and (that) their souls may depart while they are unbelievers

Wahiduddin Khan

Do not let their wealth and children impress you. For God seeks to punish them through these things in the life of this world, so that their souls shall depart while they are still denying the truth

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

So let not their wealth or their children impress you. Allah only intends to punish them through them in worldly life and that their souls should depart [at death] while they are disbelievers

Munir Mezyed

Let not therefore their wealth, or their children impress you. Verily Allâh intends only to chastise them therewith in this ‘worldly life’; and that their souls may depart while they are faithless.

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

So let not their riches nor their children please thee (O Muhammad). Allah thereby intendeth but to punish them in the life of the world and that their souls shall pass away while they are disbelievers

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Let not their wealth nor their (following in) sons dazzle thee: in reality Allah's plan is to punish them with these things in this life, and that their souls may perish in their (very) denial of Allah

George Sale

Let not therefore their riches, or their children cause thee to marvel. Verily God intendeth only to punish them by these things in this world; and that their souls may depart while they are unbelievers

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Let not then their wealth nor their children excite thine admiration. Allah only wishes to chastise them therewith in this world’s life and (that) their souls may depart while they are disbelievers

Corpus.Quran

So (let) not impress you their wealth and not their children Only Allah intends Allah intends to punish them with it in the life (of) the world and should depart their souls while they (are) disbelievers

Mustafa Khattab 2018

So let neither their wealth nor children impress you ˹O Prophet˺. Allah only intends to torment them through these things in this worldly life, then their souls will depart while they are disbelievers.

Fode Drame

Therefore let not their properties or their children elicit your admiration. Allah only intends to punish them through them in the life of this world and so that their souls may annihilate while they are disbelievers.

Abdul Hye

So let not their wealth or their children amaze you (O Muhammad); in reality, Allah intends to punish them with these things in the life of this world, and that their souls may depart (die) while they are disbelievers.

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

So let not their properties/wealths , and nor their children please/marvel you, but God wants to torture them with it in the life the present/worldly life, and their selves perish/vanish and (while) they are disbelieving

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

So neither their wealth nor their children should amaze you. It is for these (things) only that Allah intends to punish them in the life of this world and that their souls may depart whilst they are in a state of disbelief

MunirMezyed2023

Now, therefore, do not let their wealth or their children impress you. Verily Allâh intends only to chastise them therewith in this worldly life; and that their souls may depart while they are still living spiritual darkness.

Hilali - Khan

So let not their wealth or their children amaze you (O Muhammad SAW); in reality Allahs Plan is to punish them with these things in the life of the this world, and that their souls shall depart (die) while they are disbelievers

Dr. Munir Munshey

Abundance of their wealth and children should not amaze you. In fact, with these (very things) Allah wants to punish them in the life of this world. (And He intends) that their souls depart (their bodies) in a state of disbelief

Mir Aneesuddin

So do not let their wealth and their children make you wonder, Allah wills only to punish them through it in this world's life and (that) their souls should depart while they are infidels. ls should depart while they are infidels.

Dr. Kamal Omar

So must not amaze you their possessions and their children. Surely, it is that Allah intends that He may put them to punishment thereby in the life of this world, and their souls may depart (from their bodies) while they (are) disbelievers

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So let not their riches nor their children make you admire them; surely Allah only wills thereby to torment them in the present life, (Literally: the lowly life, i.e., the life of this world) and that their selves should expire (while) they are disbelievers.

Muhammad Asad

Let not, then, their worldly goods or [the happiness which they may derive from] their children excite thy admiration: God but wants to chastise them by these means in this worldly life, and [to cause] their souls to depart while they are [still] denying the truth

Bijan Moeinian

Do not let their wealth or children delude you. God wants to punish them by means of these very things in their worldly life [as their wealth and children will create more headache for them than happiness.] their wealth and children will cause them to die in the state of disbelief [and, therefore, be sentenced to Hellfire.]

Shabbir Ahmed

Let not their riches nor their children and party astonish you (O Prophet). It holds them back from the way of struggle. According to Allah's Law there is no Paradise for those who fail to strive and build it with their own hands (3:135), (16:32), (46:14-16). They live the life of hell in this world and they depart this world in sorrow for their rejection (9:85)

Ahmed Hulusi

So, let neither their wealth nor their offspring impress you... With it, Allah only intends to punish them in the worldly life (i.e. suffering that results from becoming captivated by worldly things and hence falling far from the reality of Allah) and for their lives to depart while they are in a state of denying the knowledge of the reality (by way of a scheme).