Friday, November 3, 2017

Al Quran Chapter  104  the first three verses

(1) Woe to every taunting, slandering backbiter,

(2) who amasses wealth and keeps counting it again and again,

(3) thinking that his wealth will make him immortal.

It shows a vile, mean person who is given wealth and who uses it to tyrannize others, until he begins to feel himself almost unbearable.

He thinks that wealth is the supreme value in life, before which all other values and standards come toppling down.

He feels that since he possesses wealth, he controls other people’s destiny without being accountable for his own deeds.

He imagines that his money and his wealth is a god, capable of everything without exception, even of resisting death, making him immortal and stopping God’s judgement and His retribution.

Deluded as he is by the power of wealth, he counts it and takes pleasure in counting it again and again.

A wicked vanity is let loose within him driving him to mock other people’s positions and dignity, to taunt and slander them.

He criticizes others verbally, mocks them with his gestures, either by imitating their movements and voices or by ridiculing their looks and features, by words and mimicry, by taunt and slander.

It is a vile and debased picture of someone devoid of human ideals and generosity and stripped of faith.


Islam despises this type of person whose characteristics are diametrically opposed to its own high standards of morality. Islam emphatically forbids mockery and ridicule of other people as well as deliberate fault-finding.

https://tafsirzilal.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/humazah-eng.pdf