10:8

أُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ مَأۡوَىٰهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡسِبُونَ

Olaika mawahumu alnnaru bima kanoo yaksiboona

For those their refuge will be the Fire because of what they used to earn.

Word by word
  1. أُوْلَـٰٓئِكَThose
  2. مَأۡوَىٰهُمُtheir abode
  3. ٱلنَّارُ(will be) the Fire
  4. بِمَاfor what
  5. كَانُواْthey used (to)
  6. يَكۡسِبُونَearn
Yunus · 10:8Makkah

Where you end up is what you earned.

The outcome follows the life that was lived


Cause and result
what they earneda life of heedlessness
leads to
the Firetheir final abode
Who decides the ending
bad luckit just happened to them
what they earnedchoices add up

This continues the previous verse. Ibn Kathir says their abode is a recompense for the sins they earned in their worldly life, on top of rejecting Allah, His Messenger ﷺ, and the Last Day. The ending matches the path.

Small habits compound. Five minutes of scrolling becomes three hours. A skipped prayer becomes a skipped week. Today is still the earning season. You can change what you are collecting.

One small habit does not decide anything.

My ending is built from what I earn, day by day.

Try this

Name one habit that is earning you something bad. Cut it once today.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 10:7)

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."