Understand with ease.

SURAH AL-HUMAZAH (The Slanderer)

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem

Wai lul-li kulli hu mazatil-lumaza

Al-lazi jama'a maalaw wa'addadah

Yahsabu anna maalahu akhladah

Kalla layum ba zanna fil hutamah

Wa maa adraaka mal-hutamah

Narul laahil-mooqada

Al latee tat tali'u 'alalafidah

Innaha 'alaihim moosada

Fee 'amadim-mu mad dadah

In the Name of Allah, Most Kind, Most Merciful

Woe to every slanderer and mocker,

 Who collects wealth , greedily counting it;

He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal ;

No, he will surely be thrown into the Crusher.

And what can tell you what the Crusher is?

It is the Fire of Allah, set ablaze.

Rising up over the hearts;

It will close in upon them;

Stretching and in pillars.

This surah was revealed early in Makkah. It consists of nine verses. 

It presents a vivid picture of a person who is so small-minded that his wealth blinds him to the truth and even to the common courtesies in human relations. 

The surah presents the picture of a very wealthy man who used to slander the Prophet SAWW and his companions, both to their faces and behind their backs. But the surah applies to such people at all times and places.

Slandering is to make a spoken statement about someone, which damages his reputation , honour or dignity.

Mocking is laughing at someone by copying him in an amusing but unkind way. It involves attacking him by gestures or expressions, sometimes by tongue and sometimes by the movements of the eyes, eyebrows, hands, lips or the head.

Greed is another thing which is condemned in this surah. Some people become so occupied with wealth that they forget that they will die one day.

Those who have these characteristics will be thrown into the Crusher, the Hellfire, which crushes anything that is thrown into it. This surah warns those people who waste their life, slandering and mocking good people, and those who have no other concern but to collect wealth and count it without having the slightest desire to spend it in ways pleasing to Almighty Allah. Those who do so think that their wealth will make them immortal. For such people, Allah has prepared a severe punishment in the Hereafter.

Source: Islamic Studies, Darrussalam Publication.