surah Nahl aya 117 , English translation of the meaning Ayah.
﴿مَتَاعٌ قَلِيلٌ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ﴾
[ النحل: 117]
16:117 [It is but] a brief enjoyment, and they will have a painful punishment.
Tafsir Ibn Katheer in EnglishThey will have a brief and insignificant enjoyment by following their desires in the world and on the Day of Judgment they will receive a painful punishment.
Muhammad Taqiud-Din alHilali
A passing brief enjoyment (will be theirs), but they will have a painful torment.
phonetic Transliteration
MataAAun qaleelun walahum AAathabun aleemun
Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Translation
(In such falsehood) is but a paltry profit; but they will have a most grievous Penalty.
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
A passing brief enjoyment (will be theirs), but they will suffer a painful torment.
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16:117 [It is but] a brief enjoyment, and they will have a painful translate in arabic
Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim
They derive pleasure and satisfaction from their falsehood but the pleasure it affords them is of short duration, then comes the encounter with the torment laid upon the damned
Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(16:117) (They should remember that) the pleasures of this world are transitory and in the end there is a painful torment for them.
[It is but] a brief enjoyment, and they will have a painful meaning
[It is but] a brief enjoyment, and they will have a painful meaning in Urdu
دنیا کا عیش چند روزہ ہے آخرکار اُن کے لیے دردناک سزا ہے
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