The Holy Quran 31:6 — Surah Luqman

Arabic text

وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يَشْتَرِى لَهْوَ ٱلْحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَيَتَّخِذَهَا هُزُوًا ۚ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ

Translation

There are some people who purchase (buy) futile (useless) discourse (pastimes that distract people from thinking of Allaah) to deviate (others) from Allaah's path (Islaam) without knowledge and they mock it (Islaam, so that every regard for Islaam may disappear from people's hearts). There shall be a humiliating punishment for these people.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Punishment for those immersed in amusement and play: in contrast to the fortunate, successful ones, this is a mention of those wretched people who, out of their ignorance and short-sightedness, abandon the Noble Quran and are absorbed in dancing and revelry, games and spectacles, or other nonsense and absurdities, and who want to draw others into the same…

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