✦ AT A GLANCE ✦
الهمزة
Al-Humazah
The Traducer · 9 verses · meccan · 1 min read
✦ Why this name
The Slanderer — al-Humazah, the one who mocks with gestures and with words.
✦ When it came
Meccan. Directed at a specific kind of person in Makkah — wealthy, and cruel with it.
✦ The story
*"Woe to every scorner and mocker"* — one who backbites with the tongue, and one who mocks with the eyes and the face.
And then it connects the mockery to the money: *"who collects wealth and continuously counts it, thinking that his wealth will make him immortal."*
The counting is the tell. Someone who counts money over and over is trying to buy something money cannot buy.
And the punishment is described in a way that matches the crime exactly: a fire *which mounts directed at the hearts.* He hurt people's hearts; it reaches for his.