While you are puffed up in heedlessness?
# | word | meaning | root |
---|---|---|---|
1 | wa-antum | While you | |
2 | sāmidūna | amuse (yourselves) | سمد |
treating life as a game?
And you are insisting on your ways
Just amusing yourselves!
While you are puffed up in heedlessness?
And you are indulging yourselves?
You are insisting on your ways?
Are you insisting on your ways?
Indulging in pleasantries?
While you are proudly sporting?
and divert yourselves all the while?
While ye amuse yourselves?
Will you occupy yourselves simply in merriment?
And you express disapproval and decline to accept the message, searching hard for an error to help you refute your Messenger.
Wasting your time in vanities.
Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing, etc.).
Wasting your time in vanities?
while persisting in heedlessness?
while you are engaged in vain play?
Why do you pay no heed?
while you make merry?
and ye divert yourselves the while!
While you are indulging in vanities.
(While) you amuse yourselves?
spending your time in idle diversions?
Wasting your time in useless things?
And you remain proudly heedless and haughty.
while you remain heedless?!