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Surah 29. Al-Ankabut, Ayah 64

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وَمَا هَـٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا لَهْوٌ وَلَعِبٌ ۚ وَإِنَّ ٱلدَّارَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ لَهِىَ ٱلْحَيَوَانُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
Wam a h ath ihi al h ay a tu a l dduny a ill a lahwun walaAAibun wainna a l dd a ra al a khirata lahiya al h ayaw a nu law k a noo yaAAlamoon a
for, [if they did, they would know that] the life of this world is nothing but a passing delight and a play-whereas, behold, the life in the hereafter is indeed the only [true] life: if they but knew this!
  - Mohammad Asad
The life of this world is nothing but pastime and play! It is the life of the hereafter that is the true life: if they but knew it.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
This worldly life is no more than play and amusement. But the Hereafter is indeed the real life, if only they knew.
  - Mustafa Khattab
This life of the world is but a pastime and a game. Lo! the home of the Hereafter that is Life, if they but knew.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
What is the life of this world but amusement and play? But verily the Home in the Hereafter that is life indeed if they but knew. 3497
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Cf. vi. 32. Amusement and play have no lasting significance except as preparing us for the serious work of life. So this life is but an interlude, a preparation for the real Life, which is in the Hereafther. This world's vanities are therefore to be taken for what they are worth; but they are not to be allowed to deflect our minds from the requirements of the inner life that really matters.

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