The Holy Quran 73:17 — Surah Al-Muzzammil

Arabic text

فَكَيْفَ تَتَّقُونَ إِن كَفَرْتُمْ يَوْمًا يَجْعَلُ ٱلْوِلْدَٰنَ شِيبًا

Translation

So if you (choose to) disbelieve, how will you save (yourselves) from (the punishment of) the day that will (be so frightening that it will) turn children's hair white?

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The Day that will turn children grey-haired: that is, even if you escape in this world, how will you escape on that Day whose severity and length will be such as to turn children into old men? Even if children do not actually grow old, the severity and length of that day will demand exactly that.

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