The Majestic Quran

102. At-Takathur The Competition for More and More This is a Makkan chapter that concisely highlights human greed and obsession with material things. It is trying to shock that person who is deeply immersed in the love of the world. Therefore, particularly relevant for our affluent societies. It lays bare the fact that this diversion and distraction from the reality of the Hereafter cannot save us from dying and going into our graves. The solution is simple: believe in the Resurrection and Divine Justice. Such moving revelation can awaken readers to the dangers of worldliness and forgetfulness of the Hereafter. In the name of God, the Kind, the Caring. H 1 The competition for more and more wealth preoccupied you , 2 2 until you went down into your graves. 3 Surely, you will know; 4 Eventually you will understand. 5 If only you had knowledge of certainty. 6 You will certainly see Hell; 7 you will see it with the eye of certainty; 8 that Day, you will be questioned about all the gifts.