Verse. 1317

٩ - ٱلتَّوْبَة

9 - At-Tawba

فَلْيَضْحَكُوْا قَلِيْلًا وَّلْيَبْكُوْا كَثِيْرًا۝۰ۚ جَزَاۗءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوْا يَكْسِبُوْنَ۝۸۲
Falyadhakoo qaleelan walyabkoo katheeran jazaan bima kanoo yaksiboona

English

Ahmed Ali

So let them laugh a little, for weep they will, more as retribution for what they have done.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (then let them laugh a little) in the life of this world: (they will weep much) in the hereafter, (as the award of what they used to earn) of what they used to say and do of transgression.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : but let them laugh a little, in this world, and weep much, in the hereafter, as a requital for what they used to earn (the sentence is predicative of their state, expressed in the form of an imperative).