اِعْلَمُٓوا اَنَّمَا الْحَیٰوةُ الدُّنْیَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهْوٌ وَزٖینَةٌ وَتَفَاخُرٌ بَیْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌ فِی الْاَمْوَالِ وَالْاَوْلَادِؕ كَمَثَلِ غَیْثٍ اَعْجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُ ثُمَّ یَهٖیجُ فَتَرٰیهُ مُصْفَرًّا ثُمَّ یَكُونُ حُطَامًاؕ وَفِی الْاٰخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ شَدٖیدٌۙ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ مِنَ اللّٰهِ وَرِضْوَانٌؕ وَمَا الْحَیٰوةُ الدُّنْیَٓا اِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ
IAAlamoo annama alhayatu alddunya laAAibun walahwun wazeenatun watafakhurun baynakum watakathurun fee alamwali waalawladi kamathali ghaythin aAAjaba alkuffara nabatuhu thumma yaheeju fatarahu musfarran thumma yakoonu hutaman wafee alakhirati AAathabun shadeedun wamaghfiratun mina Allahi waridwanun wama alhayatu alddunya illa mataAAu alghuroori
Translations
Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children - like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion
Saheeh International
Know that the life of the world is only play, and idle talk, and pageantry, and boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rain, whereof the growth is pleasing to the husbandman, but afterward it drieth up and thou seest it turning yellow, then it becometh straw. And in the Hereafter there is grievous punishment, and (also) forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure, whereas the life of the world is but matter of illusion
Marmaduke Pickthall