Quran Universe
14:30

وَجَعَلُواْ لِلَّهِ أَندَادٗا لِّيُضِلُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦۗ قُلۡ تَمَتَّعُواْ فَإِنَّ مَصِيرَكُمۡ إِلَى ٱلنَّارِ

WajaAAaloo lillahi andadan liyudilloo AAan sabeelihi qul tamattaAAoo fainna maseerakum ila alnnari

And they have attributed to Allah equals to mislead [people] from His way. Say, "Enjoy yourselves, for indeed, your destination is the Fire."

Word by word
  1. وَجَعَلُواْAnd they set up
  2. لِلَّهِto Allah
  3. أَندَادٗاequals
  4. لِّيُضِلُّواْso that they mislead
  5. عَنfrom
  6. سَبِيلِهِۦۗHis Path
  7. قُلۡSay
  8. تَمَتَّعُواْEnjoy
  9. فَإِنَّbut indeed
  10. مَصِيرَكُمۡyour destination
  11. إِلَى(is) to
  12. ٱلنَّارِthe Fire
Ibrahim · 14:30Makkah

Enjoy for now, but the destination is set.

Rivals to Allah, and a brief enjoyment

What they did
set up rivalsequals to Allah
to
mislead othersfrom His path
The reply
enjoyfor a little while
but
the endthe Fire

Ibn Kathir says they set up partners to Allah and called people to worship them. The Prophet ﷺ is told to say: enjoy yourselves. It is a warning, not permission. He links it to: We let them enjoy a little, then they return to Us.

The weekend plan, the new car, the trip. None of it is wrong. But if it all quietly becomes the point of life, enjoyment turns into a rival. Enjoy, and remember where you are heading.

Enjoying life now is all that really counts.

Enjoyment is brief; what I put in Allah's place decides my end.

Try this

Notice one pleasure today that you lean on too much, and thank Allah for it out loud.

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Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 14:28)

Have you not seen those who have changed the blessings of Allah into disbelief (by denying Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and his Message of Islam), and caused their people to dwell in the house of destruction (28)Hell, in which they will burn, - and what an evil place to settle in (29)And they set up rivals to Allah, to mislead (men) from His path! Say: "Enjoy (your brief life)! But certainly, your destination is the (Hell) Fire! (30)

The Recompense of Those Who have changed the Blessings of Allah into Disbelief

Al-Bukhari said, "Allah's statement,

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ كُفْرًا

(Have you not seen those who have changed the blessings of Allah into disbelief…), means, do you have knowledge in. Allah said in other Ayat,

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ

(Saw you not how.) and,

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ خَرَجُوا

(Did you not think of those who went forth.)

قَوْمًا بُورًا

(A lost people)[25:18] Ali bin 'Abdullah narrated that Sufyan said that 'Amr said that 'Ata said that he heard Ibn 'Abbas saying that,

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ كُفْرًا

"(Have you not seen those who have changed the blessings of Allah into disbelief), is in reference to the people of Makkah."

Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Abu At-Tufayl said that Ibn Al-Kawwa' asked 'Ali about Allah's statement,

الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ كُفْرًا وَأَحَلُّوا قَوْمَهُمْ دَارَ الْبَوَارِ

(those who have changed the blessings of Allah into disbelief, and caused their people to dwell in the house of destruction) and 'Ali said that it refers to the disbelievers of Quraysh on the day of Badr.

He also said that the blessing of Allah was faith that came to the polytheists of Quraysh, and they changed this blessing into disbelief and led their people to utter destruction. This includes all disbelievers, for Allah sent Muhammad as a mercy and a blessing to all mankind. Those who accepted this blessing and were thankful for it, will enter Paradise, while those who denied it and disbelieved in it, will enter the Fire.

Allah said next,

وَجَعَلُوا لِلَّهِ أَندَادًا لِّيُضِلُّوا عَن سَبِيلِهِ

(And they set up rivals to Allah, to mislead from His path!) meaning, they set up partners to Allah whom they worship besides Him and called the people to worship them. Allah threatened them and warned them by the words of His Prophet ﷺ,

قُلْ تَمَتَّعُوا فَإِنَّ مَصِيرَكُمْ إِلَى النَّارِ

(Say: "Enjoy (your brief life)! But certainly, your destination is the (Hell) Fire!") 'Whatever you are able to do in this life, then do it, for no matter what will happen,

فَإِنَّ مَصِيرَكُمْ إِلَى النَّارِ

(But certainly, your destination is the (Hell) Fire!) for to Us will be your destination and end.' Allah said in other Ayat,

نُمَتِّعُهُمْ قَلِيلًا ثُمَّ نَضْطَرُّهُمْ إِلَىٰ عَذَابٍ غَلِيظٍ

(We let them enjoy for a little while, then in the end We shall force them to (enter) a great torment.)[31:24] and,

مَتَاعٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا مَرْجِعُهُمْ ثُمَّ نُذِيقُهُمُ الْعَذَابَ الشَّدِيدَ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْفُرُونَ

((A brief) enjoyment in this world! And then unto Us will be their return, then We shall make them taste the severest torment because they used to disbelieve.)[10:70]