Surah Al-'Adiyat: Thematic English Translation (Mustafa Çevik)

Woe to those who reject the call of Allah, who created the universe and the human being and endowed the world with so many blessings for humankind. Such people race one another, panting, in their hostility toward the believers; raising clouds of dust, they spend the night in malice and hatred and turn to aggression in the mornings; to keep people from coming to know the divine system to which they are invited, they muddy the waters and confuse people’s minds, and they imagine that in this way they can keep their own system standing. We swear that We will call them to account.

Most of the people to whom Allah, in order to test them, has entrusted blessings for a limited time, and to whom He has also shown the way to use them rightly, are ungrateful for what their Lord has entrusted to them.

Moreover, although such people know that Allah is the true Owner of all possessions, their excessive attachment to wealth has hardened their hearts, and they have sunk to the point of ignoring Allah.

Allah will raise people to life in the Hereafter and call them to account for what He entrusted to them in their worldly lives and for what they concealed in their hearts. He will show them all that they did and give them the recompense they deserve.