Meaning: [then] I will grant him enjoyment · Also translated as: And make provision for them, and We granted them enjoyment, He will let you, We will grant enjoyment
Forms in the Quran
مَتَّعْنَا×3
فَأُمَتِّعُهُۥ×1
وَمَتِّعُوهُنَّ×1
وَمَتَّعْنَٰهُمْ×1
يُمَتِّعْكُم×1
سَنُمَتِّعُهُمْ×1
مَّتَّعْتَهُمْ×1
مَّتَّعْنَٰهُمْ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
المتوع: الامتداد والارتفاع. يقال: متع النهار ومتع النبات: إذا ارتفع في أول النبات، والمتاع: انتفاع ممتد الوقت، يقال: متعه الله بكذا، وأمتعه، وتمتع به. قال تعالى:
قوله تعالى: ﴿يمتعكم متاعا حسنا﴾ [هود: 3] قيل: معناه يعمركم أي يطيل عمركم. والمادة تدل على الطول، ومنه: رجل ماتع أي طويل. ومتع النهار: طال، وأمتع فلان: طالت مدته. وأمتعني الله بك، أي أطال إيناسي ببقائك، وفي حديث الدجال: «يسخر له جبل ماتع» وفي حديث عمر: «بينما أنا جالس في أهلي إذ متع النهار» وقيل: المتوع الامتداد…
And remember Abraham said:
"My Lord, make this a City
Of Peace, and feed its People
With fruits,—such of them
As believe in God and the Last Day."
He said: "(Yea), and such as
Reject Faith,—for a while
Will I grant them their pleasure,
But will soon drive them
To the torment of Fire,—
An evil destination (indeed)!"
There is no blame on you
If ye divorce women
Before consummation
Or the fixation of their dower;
But bestow on them
(A suitable gift),
The wealthy
According to his means,
And the poor
According to his means;—
A gift of a reasonable amount
Is due from those
Who wish to do the right thing.
Why was there not
A single township (among those
We warned), which believed,—
So its Faith should have
Profited it,—except the People
Of Jonah? When they believed,
We removed from them
The Penalty of Ignominy
In the life of the Present,
And permitted them to enjoy
(Their life) for a while.
"(And to preach thus), "Seek ye
The forgiveness of your Lord,
And turn to Him in repentance;
That He may grant you
Enjoyment, good (and true),
For a term appointed,
And bestow His abounding grace
On all who abound in merit!
But if ye turn away,
Then I fear for you
The Penalty of a Great Day:
The word came: "O Noah!
Come down (from the Ark)
With Peace from Us,
And Blessing on thee
And on some of the Peoples
(Who will spring) from those
With thee: but (there will be
Other) Peoples to whom We
Shall grant their pleasures
(For a time), but in the end
Will a grievous Penalty
Reach them from Us."
Strain not thine eyes.
(Wistfully) at what We
Have bestowed on certain classes
Of them, nor grieve over them:
But lower thy wing
(in gentleness)
To the Believers.
Nor strain thine eyes in longing
For the things We have given
For enjoyment to parties ,
Of them, the splendour
Of the life of this world,
Through which We test them:
But the provision of thy Lord
Is better and more enduring.
Nay, We gave the good things
Of this life to these men
And their fathers until
The period grew long for them;
See they not that We
Gradually reduce the land
(In their control) from
Its outlying borders? Is it
Then they who will win?
They will say: "Glory to Thee!
Not meet was it for us
That we should take
For protectors others besides Thee:
But Thou didst bestow,
On them and their fathers,
Good things (in life), until
They forgot the Message:
For they were a people
(Worthless and) lost."
Are (these two) alike?—
One to whom We have made
A goodly promise, and who
Is going to reach its (fulfilment),
And one to whom We have
Given the good things of this
Life, but who, on the Day
Of Judgment, is to be among
Those brought up (for punishment)?
Say: "Running away will not
Profit you if ye are
Running away from death
Or slaughter; and even if
(Ye do escape), no more
Than a brief (respite)
Will ye be allowed to enjoy!"
O Prophet! say
To thy Consorts:
"If it be that ye desire
The life of this world,
And its glitter,—then come!
I will provide for your
Enjoyment and set you free
In a handsome manner.
O ye who believe!
When ye marry believing women,
And then divorce them
Before ye have touched them,
No period of ’Iddat
Have ye to count
In respect of them:
So give them a present,
And set them free
In a handsome manner.