ٱلْفُرْقَان : ٢٣

  • وَقَدِمۡنَآ And We will proceed
  • إِلَىٰ to
  • مَا whatever
  • عَمِلُواْ they did
  • مِنۡ of
  • عَمَلٖ (the) deed(s)
  • فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُ and We will make them
  • هَبَآءٗ (as) dust
  • مَّنثُورًا dispersed
And We will approach [i.e., regard]1 what they have done of deeds and make them as dust dispersed.
Footnotes
1 - On the Day of Judgement.
And We shall attend to, We shall turn to, the works they did, that were good, such as voluntary alms or kindness to kin, a hospitable reception of a guest or the succour of a troubled person in this world, and turn them into scattered dust (habaa'an manthooran), namely, [as] those individual particles of dust which one might observe near a window when the sun is shining through. In other words, [We shall make their good works] like those [particles of dust] in their uselessness, there being no reward for such [works], for lack of any [binding] obligation [to reward them therefor]; but they are rewarded for it in the life of this world.