ٱلنُّور : ٣٧

  • رِجَالٞ Men
  • لَّا not
  • تُلۡهِيهِمۡ distracts them
  • تِجَٰرَةٞ trade
  • وَلَا and not
  • بَيۡعٌ sale
  • عَن from
  • ذِكۡرِ (the) remembrance of Allah
  • ٱللَّهِ (the) remembrance of Allah
  • وَإِقَامِ and (from) establishing
  • ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ the prayer
  • وَإِيتَآءِ and giving
  • ٱلزَّكَوٰةِ zakah
  • يَخَافُونَ They fear
  • يَوۡمٗا a Day
  • تَتَقَلَّبُ will turn about
  • فِيهِ therein
  • ٱلۡقُلُوبُ the hearts
  • وَٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرُ and the eyes
[Are] men whom neither commerce nor sale distracts from the remembrance of Allāh and performance of prayer and giving of zakāh. They fear a Day in which the hearts and eyes will [fearfully] turn about -
men (rijaalun, the subject of the verb yusabbihu, 'make glorifications'; if [the passive is] read, yusabbahu, 'glorifications are made', it [rijaalun, 'men'] substitutes for the [impersonal] subject of lahu, 'to Him', so that rijaalun, 'men', is the subject of an implied verb in response to an implied question as if one had asked: who makes glorifications to Him?) whom neither trading, purchase, nor sale distracts from the remembrance of God and the observance of prayer (the [final] haa' of iqaamat, 'the observance', has been omitted to facilitate [the reading]) and payment of the alms. They fear a day when hearts and eyes will be tossed about, in fear, the hearts [tossed about] between [the hope of] deliverance and [the fear of] destruction, and the eyes to the right and to the left [out of anxiety] - this is the Day of Resurrection;