Surely men love what hastes away and forget the grievous day (ahead).
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (lo! these) the people of mecca (love fleeting life) love striving for the life of the world, (and put behind them (the remembrance of)) and refrain from striving for the day which is ahead of them (a grievous day) whose torment and horrors are severe.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : assuredly these love the transitory [life], this world, and leave behind them a burdensome day, an awful [one], namely, the day of resurrection, not working towards it.
