Surah Taubah Ayat 69 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 69
[You disbelievers are] like those before you; they were stronger than you in power and more abundant in wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion [of worldly enjoyment], and you have enjoyed your portion as those before you enjoyed their portion, and you have engaged [in vanities] like that in which they engaged. [It is] those whose deeds have become worthless in this world and in the Hereafter, and it is they who are the losers.
As in the case of those before you: they were mightier than you in power, and more flourishing in wealth and children. They had their enjoyment of their portion: and ye have of yours, as did those before you; and ye indulge in idle talk as they did. They!- their work are fruitless in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will lose (all spiritual good).
Your ways are like the ways of those who have gone before you. They were mightier than you in power, and more abundant in riches and children. They enjoyed their lot for a while as you have enjoyed your lot, and you also engaged in idle talk as they did. Their works have come to naught in this world, and in the Hereafter they are surely the losers.
Like those before you, they were mightier than you in power, and more abundant in wealth and children. They had enjoyed their portion awhile, so enjoy your portion awhile as those before you enjoyed their portion awhile; and you indulged in play and pastime (and in telling lies against Allah and His Messenger Muhammad SAW) as they indulged in play and pastime. Such are they whose deeds are in vain in this world and in the Hereafter. Such are they who are the losers.
Even as those before you who were mightier than you in strength, and more affluent than you in wealth and children. They enjoyed their lot awhile, so ye enjoy your lot awhile even as those before you did enjoy their lot awhile. And ye prate even as they prated. Such are they whose works have perished in the world and the Hereafter. Such are they who are the losers.
Like the ones even before you, (who) were stronger (Literally: more severe; more strict.) than you in power and had more riches and children; so did they enjoy their apportioning; so have you enjoyed your apportioning as the ones even before you enjoyed their apportioning. And you have waded (Or: plunged into, became absorbed in (a subject or deeds) in the way they waded. (i.e. in the things in which they waded) Those are (the people) whose deeds have been frustrated in the present (life) (Literally: the lowly (life), i.e., the life of this world) and the Hereafter; and those are they who are the losers.
‘You are like those who lived before you: they were even stronger than you, with more wealth and children; they enjoyed their share in this life as you have enjoyed yours; like them, you have indulged in idle talk.’ Their deeds go to waste in this world and the next; it is they who will lose all in the life to come.
مثل ان لوگوں کے جو تم سے پہلے تھے، تم میں سے وه زیاده قوت والے تھے اور زیاده مال واوﻻد والے تھے پس وه اپنا دینی حصہ برت گئے پھر تم نے بھی اپنا حصہ برت لیا جیسے تم سے پہلے کے لوگ اپنے حصے سے فائده مند ہوئے تھے اور تم نے بھی اسی طرح مذاقانہ بحﺚ کی جیسے کہ انہوں نے کی تھی۔ ان کے اعمال دنیا اور آخرت میں غارت ہوگئے۔ یہی لوگ نقصان پانے والے ہیں
Quran 9 Verse 69 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Taubah ayat 69, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(9:69) Your ways are like the ways of those who have gone before you.[76] They were mightier than you in power, and more abundant in riches and children. They enjoyed their lot for a while as you have enjoyed your lot, and you also engaged in idle talk as they did. Their works have come to naught in this world, and in the Hereafter they are surely the losers.
76. In the preceding verse, they were being mentioned in the third person, but here they are being addressed directly in the second person.
Ibn-Kathir
69. Like those before you: they were mightier than you in power, and more abundant in wealth and children. They had enjoyed their portion (a while), so enjoy your portion (a while) as those before you enjoyed their portion (a while); and you indulged in play and pastime as they indulged in play and pastime. Such are they whose deeds are in vain in this world and in the Hereafter. Such are they who are the losers.) Allah says, these people were touched by torment in this life and the Hereafter, just as those before them. Allah’s statement,
(their portion), means, ﴿they mocked﴾ their religion, according to Al-Hasan Al-Basri. Allah’s statement,
(and you indulged in play and pastime as they indulged in play and pastime), indulged in lies and falsehood,
(Such are they whose deeds are in vain), their deeds are annulled; they will not acquire any rewards for them because they are invalid,
(in this world and in the Hereafter. Such are they who are the losers.) because they will not acquire any rewards for their actions. Ibn `Abbas commented, “How similar is this night to the last night,
(Like those before you…) These are the Children of Israel, with whom we were compared. The Prophet said,
(By He in Whose Hand is my life! You will imitate them, and even if a man of them entered the den of a lizard, you will enter it likewise!)” Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said,
قالوا: ومن هم يا رسول الله، أهل الكتاب؟ قال:
(By He in Whose Hand is my soul! You will follow the traditions of those who were before you a hand span for a hand-span and forearm’s length for forearm’s length, and an arm’s length for an arm’s length. And even if they enter the den of a lizard, you will also enter it.) They asked, “Who, O Allah’s Messenger, the People of the Book” He said, (Who else)” This Hadith is similar to another Hadith collected in the Sahih.
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