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wa-lā tuʿjibka ʾamwāluhum wa-ʾawlāduhum ʾinnamā yurīdu llāhu ʾan yuʿadhdhibahum bihā fī d-dunyā wa-tazhaqa ʾanfusuhum wa-hum kāfirūna
Let not their possessions or their children impress you. Allah only desires to punish them with these in this world, and that their souls may depart while they are faithless.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah At-Tawbah – Verse 85
85 . “And let not their possessions and their children astonish you; verily Allah only desires thereby to chastise them in this world, and that their souls depart while they are infidels.”
A similar statement to this verse, with a little difference in recitation, was referred to in holy verse No. 55 of the current Surah. However, sometimes it happens that, instead of welfare and happiness, wealth and children are the cause of affliction and chastisement for a group of people. That is why the verse says: