Surah An-Najm — Verse 61

The Star · 53:61 · 61/62

وَأَنتُمْ سَـٰمِدُونَ

Waantum samidoon

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

While you are proudly sporting?

Why do you pay no heed?

While ye amuse yourselves?

Wasting your time in vanities?

while you are engaged in vain play?

Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing, etc.).

Will you occupy yourselves simply in merriment?

and divert yourselves all the while?

while heedlessly lost in amusement?

(61) While you are proudly sporting?[1575]

Notes

[1575]- Additional meanings are "singing [with expanded chest]," "heedless," or "lost in vain amusements."

61. Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing, etc.).