Erect palaces (thinking) that you will live for ever,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and seek ye out strongholds) houses, palaces and pools, (that haply ye may last for ever) in this worldly life? nay, you will not last for ever!
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and you set up structures, for [extracting] water underground, that perhaps you might, as though you will, last forever, therein and not die.
