Surah Ash-Shu'ara (الشعراء) • The Poets

Quran 26:128

26:128

أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةً تَعْبَثُونَ

atabnūna bikulli rīʿin āyatan taʿbathūna

Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves,

— Saheeh International

How can you be so vain that you set up monuments on every high place?

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

"Do you build high palaces on every high place, while you do not live in them?

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

Juz 19Page 372meccan

Word by Word

أَتَبْنُونَatabnūnaDo you construct
بِكُلِّbikullion every
رِيعٍrīʿinelevation
ءَايَةًۭāyatana sign
تَعْبَثُونَtaʿbathūnaamusing yourselves