Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Ayah 128
Quran 26:128 · The Poets · Makki · Para 19 · Page 372
اَتَبْنُوْنَ بِكُلِّ رِیْعٍ اٰیَةً تَعْبَثُوْنَ ۟ۙ
Transliteration
Atabnoona bikulli reeAAin ayatantaAAbathoon
Saheeh International
Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves,
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
“Why are you building upon every elevated, overlooking place a building as a marker, unnecessarily, without any benefit in it for you in the world or the afterlife?”
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 26:123–26:135 together — read it on 26:123