Laughter

Beautified for those who disbelieve is the life of this world, and they ridicule those who believe. But those who fear Allāh are above them on the Day of Resurrection. And Allāh gives provision to whom He wills without account.

So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense for what they used to earn.

And his wife was standing, and she smiled.¹ Then We gave her good tidings of Isaac and after Isaac, Jacob.

But you took them in mockery to the point that they made you forget My remembrance, and you used to laugh at them.

So [Solomon] smiled, amused at her speech, and said, "My Lord, enable me¹ to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to do righteousness of which You approve. And admit me by Your mercy into [the ranks of] Your righteous servants."²

But you wonder, while they mock,

And when they see a sign, they ridicule.

But when he brought them Our signs, at once they laughed at them.

And when the son of Mary was presented as an example,¹ immediately your people laughed aloud.

And that it is He who makes [one] laugh and weep

Then at this statement do you wonder?

And you laugh and do not weep

While you are proudly sporting?¹

[Some] faces, that Day, will be bright -

Laughing, rejoicing at good news.

Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.

So Today¹ those who believed are laughing at the disbelievers,