Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayah 96
Quran 2:96 · The Cow · Madani · Para 1 · Page 15
وَلَتَجِدَنَّهُمْ اَحْرَصَ النَّاسِ عَلٰی حَیٰوةٍ ۛۚ وَمِنَ الَّذِیْنَ اَشْرَكُوْا ۛۚ یَوَدُّ اَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ یُعَمَّرُ اَلْفَ سَنَةٍ ۚ وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهٖ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ اَنْ یُّعَمَّرَ ؕ وَاللّٰهُ بَصِیْرٌ بِمَا یَعْمَلُوْنَ ۟۠
Transliteration
Walatajidannahum ahrasa annasiAAala hayatin wamina allatheenaashrakoo yawaddu ahaduhum law yuAAammaru alfa sanatin wamahuwa bimuzahzihihi mina alAAathabi anyuAAammara wallahu baseerun bimayaAAmaloon
Saheeh International
And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with Allāh. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allāh is Seeing of what they do.
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
You will find, O Prophet, that the Jews are the most desirous for life, even if it is miserable and lowly. They are even greedier for it than the idolaters, who worship others alongside Allah, who do not believe in being brought back to life after death or in being held to account for what they have done. Despite being People of the Scripture, and believing in the resurrection and the reckoning, they would love to live a thousand years. Yet however long a life they might be given, it would not distance them from Allah’s punishment. Allah sees all that they do. Nothing is hidden from Him, and they will be given what they earn.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 2:94–2:96 together — read it on 2:94