So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense (9:82)

﴿فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا جَزَاءً بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ﴾
[ التوبة: 82]

9:82 So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense for what they used to earn.

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Let these hypocrites, who failed to strive in Allah’s path, laugh a little in their temporary life of the world and let them cry much in their everlasting life of the Afterlife in return for the disbelief and sins they committed in the world.

So let them laugh a little and (they will) cry much as a recompense of what they used to earn (by committing sins).

phonetic Transliteration

Falyadhakoo qaleelan walyabkoo katheeran jazaan bima kanoo yaksiboona

Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Translation

Let them laugh a little: much will they weep: a recompense for the (evil) that they do.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

So let them laugh a little and (they will) cry much as a recompense of what they used to earn (by committing sins).

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