Know that the life of the world is but a play and a pastime, and an adornment and a self-glorification among you and vying in respect of riches and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rains whereof the growth pleaseth the husbandmen, then it withereth and thou seest it becoming yellow, then it becometh chaff. And in the Hereafter there is both a grievous torment and forgiveness from Allah and His pleasure, and the life of the world is but a vain bauble.
あなたがたの現世の生活は遊び戯れに過ぎず，また虚飾と，たがいの間の誇示であり，財産と子女の張り合いに過ぎないことを知れ。（現世の生活を）例えれば慈雨のようなもので，（作物は）生長して不信心者（農夫）を喜ばせる。やがてそれは枯れて黄色に変り，次いで粉々になり果てるのをあなたがたは見るであろう。だが来世においては（不義の徒に）厳しい懲罰があり，また（正義の徒には）アッラーから寛容と善賞を授かろう。本当に現世の生活は，虚しい欺時の享楽に過ぎない。