Transliteration:( Hatta zurtumul-maqaabir )
3. It means you remain the victim of greed and lust or arrogance until your time of death. Since the grave, too, is man's one stage of the journey, but his final abode is Paradise or Hell, therefore "you saw" has been used here. The Holy Prophet said that three things go with the deceased: Wealth, kith and kin and deeds. The first two return after his burial, but the deeds remain with him. Your own wealth is that which a person is able to eat and digest, wear it until it wears out or sends it ahead of him by giving charity. Or, the verse could mean that your extent of pride is such that you are boasting about your deceased predecessors. You visit their graves for this purpose. Thus, we learn that to visit the graves for the purpose of pride is prohibited. If this is done for the purpose of taking lessons from them like to serve as a reminder of your death, or for the purpose of conveying the rewards of your Quranic recitation for the inmates of the graves, or to derive blessings from the inmate of the grave, etc. is permissible. To undertake a journey to derive blessings from the inmate of the grave is permissible as well. That is why people travel to Madina Shareef, Baghdad Shareef, etc. Or, O infidels! You make mention about your deceased predecessors for the purpose of expressing pride as well. This tells us that to be boastful about having family links with village headmen and chiefs is forbidden. However, to be proud of having links with the religious and pious persons is acceptable. We are proud to be the followers of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم and the devotees and disciples of Huzoor Ghause Paak.
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(102:2) until you reach your graves.[2]
2. That is, you spend your whole life in the same craze and endeavor, until the time comes when you must die and leave the world.
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