Al-Baqara • EN-AL-QUSHAIRI-TAFSIR
﴿ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشْتَرَوُا۟ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ ۖ فَلَا يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ ﴾
“All who buy the life of this world at the price of the life to come - their suffering shall not be lightened, nor shall they be succoured!”
Those are the ones who have purchased the life of this world at the price of the hereafter-for them the punishment shall not be lightened neither shall they be helped. Those who have preferred anything over [God] have lost in this world and the hereafter. As they have said: People turned away from us without cause or sense. If they have no need of us we have even less need of them.