LessonsṬarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)Quiz

أَرَى قَبْرَ نَحَّامٍ بَخِيلٍ بِمَالِهِ
كَقَبْرِ غَوِيٍّ فِي الْبَطَالَةِ مُفْسِدِ
Meaning: I observe that the grave of a man extremely miserly with his property resembles the grave of one who was wayward and wasteful in his conduct.

Naḥḥām depicts extreme miserliness, ghawiyy someone astray, and baṭālah idleness or unproductive indulgence. The simile ka-qabr sets unlike lives against a shared outward end. It does not show that the two people’s deeds are of equal moral worth; it compares the visible condition of their graves.

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Verse 63: graves of the miser and the squanderer

Ṭarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)

أَرَى قَبْرَ نَحَّامٍ بَخِيلٍ بِمَالِهِ
كَقَبْرِ غَوِيٍّ فِي الْبَطَالَةِ مُفْسِدِ
Meaning: I observe that the grave of a man extremely miserly with his property resembles the grave of one who was wayward and wasteful in his conduct.

Naḥḥām depicts extreme miserliness, ghawiyy someone astray, and baṭālah idleness or unproductive indulgence. The simile ka-qabr sets unlike lives against a shared outward end. It does not show that the two people’s deeds are of equal moral worth; it compares the visible condition of their graves.