“Every soul will taste of death. And ye will be paid on the Day of Resurrection only that which ye have fairly earned. Whoso is removed from the Fire and is made to enter paradise, he indeed is triumphant. The life of this world is but comfort of illusion” — read online, free, in the Pickthall translation.
Read in context: Surah Aal-E-Imran, full text · Pickthall translation (public domain)
“Every soul shall taste of death, and only on the Day of Resurrection shall you be paid your wages in full” — the Qur'an on mortality.
About this text: English translations of the Qur'an — how they differ →
A meditation on death and accountability: every soul tastes death, and true recompense comes only on the Day of Resurrection — “whoever is removed from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is triumphant”.
This is the translation of Marmaduke Pickthall (1930), a respected public domain English rendering of the Qur'an.
The complete text is free to read at fourfaiths.com/quran/3/ — no account, no download, with every chapter of the Qur'an.
This verse is part of the free FourFaiths library. Open the full reader for search, bookmarks, reading plans and a verse of the day. No account, no tracking — everything runs locally in your browser.
Open in the Qur'an reader →