Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:45
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 45 of 96
إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُتْرَفِينَ
Translation
Before, they overindulged in luxury
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Indeed, before that they were living in luxury.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the first cause named of their ruin, 'mutrafin', those softened and heedless by ease and indulgence: comfort itself dulled them to the truth. Ask yourself: this is a warning I rarely take seriously, because I associate danger with hardship, not with comfort. But the verse names luxury as a road to the left hand, ease that anaesthetises, abundance that makes me forget my need, softness that quietly erodes urgency about anything beyond the next pleasure. My comfortable life is not automatically safe; it can be the very thing lulling me to sleep. Where has my ease made me spiritually drowsy, too comfortable to feel any need to change, to strive, or to turn back?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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