3يَحسَبُ أَنَّ مالَهُ أَخلَدَهُMuhammad Asadthinking that his wealth will make him live forever!1This is a metonym for the tendency to attribute an almost "religious" value to the acquisition and possession of material goods and facilities - a tendency which precludes man from giving any real importance to spiritual considerations (cf. note 1 on 102:1). My rendering of 'addadahu in the preceding verse as "[he] counts it a safeguard" is based on Jawhari's explanation of this term.