10:7

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرۡجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا وَرَضُواْ بِٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَا وَٱطۡمَأَنُّواْ بِهَا وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ عَنۡ ءَايَٰتِنَا غَٰفِلُونَ

Inna allatheena la yarjoona liqaana waradoo bialhayati alddunya waitmaannoo biha waallatheena hum AAan ayatina ghafiloona

Indeed, those who do not expect the meeting with Us and are satisfied with the life of this world and feel secure therein and those who are heedless of Our signs

Word by word
  1. إِنَّIndeed
  2. ٱلَّذِينَthose who
  3. لَا(do) not
  4. يَرۡجُونَexpect
  5. لِقَآءَنَاthe meeting with Us
  6. وَرَضُواْand are pleased
  7. بِٱلۡحَيَوٰةِwith the life
  8. ٱلدُّنۡيَا(of) the world
  9. وَٱطۡمَأَنُّواْand feel satisfied
  10. بِهَاwith it
  11. وَٱلَّذِينَand those
  12. هُمۡthey
  13. عَنۡ(are) of
  14. ءَايَٰتِنَاOur Signs
  15. غَٰفِلُونَheedless
Yunus · 10:7Makkah

Content with this world, and not expecting to meet Him.

The quiet comfort that makes a person heedless


Their state
no hope of meetingthe Day is not real to them
settled in this lifepleased and at rest
heedless of signsnever stopped to look
The danger
being comfortablelife is good
being at rest in itas if this is all

Al-Hasan said they decorated this world and praised it until they were satisfied with it. They did not reflect on the signs around them, and did not follow Allah's laws. The meeting with Allah was simply not on their mind.

The new car, the renovated kitchen, the holiday booked for next summer. None of it is wrong. The danger is feeling fully settled, as if this place is home and there is no one to meet after it.

If my life is comfortable, I must be doing fine.

Comfort is a blessing, but feeling settled in it can make me forget the meeting.

Try this

Today, when you enjoy something nice, say quietly: this is not my final home.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Verily, those who hope not for their meeting with Us, but are pleased and satisfied with the life of the present world, and those who are heedless of Our Ayat (7)Those, their abode will be the Fire, because of what they used to earn (8)

The Abode of Those Who deny the Hour is Hell-Fire

Allah describes the state of the wretched who disbelieved in the meeting with Allah on the Day of Resurrection and did not look forward to it, who were well-pleased with the life of this world and at rest in it. Al-Hasan said: "They adorned it and praised it until they were well pleased with it. Whereas they were heedless of Allah's signs in the universe, they did not contemplate them. They were also heedless of Allah's Laws, for they didn't abide by them. Their abode on the Day of Return is Fire, a reward for what they have earned in their worldly life from among their sins and crimes. That is beside their disbelief in Allah, His Messenger and the Last Day."