ٱلْجَاثِيَة : ٢٤

  • وَقَالُواْ And they say
  • مَا Not
  • هِيَ it
  • إِلَّا (is) but
  • حَيَاتُنَا our life
  • ٱلدُّنۡيَا (of) the world
  • نَمُوتُ we die
  • وَنَحۡيَا and we live
  • وَمَا and not
  • يُهۡلِكُنَآ destroys us
  • إِلَّا except
  • ٱلدَّهۡرُۚ the time
  • وَمَا And not
  • لَهُم for them
  • بِذَٰلِكَ of that
  • مِنۡ any
  • عِلۡمٍۖ knowledge
  • إِنۡ not
  • هُمۡ they
  • إِلَّا (do) but
  • يَظُنُّونَ guess
And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live,1 and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.
Footnotes
1 - i.e., some people die and others live, replacing them.
And they, those who deny the Resurrection, say, 'There is only, that is to say, [the only] life [is], our life, the one that is, in this world. We die and we live, that is to say, some die, while others are given life by [virtue of] being born, and nothing but time, that is, [nothing but] the passage of time, destroys us'. God, exalted be He, says: Of that, saying, they have no knowledge; they are only making conjectures.