The Holy Quran 16:107 — Surah An-Nahl

Arabic text

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمُ ٱسْتَحَبُّوا۟ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا عَلَى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

Translation

This (punishment) is because they prefer the life of this world to the Aakhirah. Allaah certainly does not guide those who commit kufr (who make this world their goal).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, how can such deniers, who have made the life of this world itself the Kaaba of their aims, find the path to success? Shah [Abd al-Qadir] ﵀ writes: “Whoever has turned away from faith has done so for a worldly aim: out of fear for his life, or for the sake of his kinsfolk, or out of greed for money.

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