A dangerous pastime

Playing cards is a popular pastime.

Driving is a good holiday pastime.

Sacking Rome became a barbarian pastime.

Is this like a pastime with people?

What's your favourite pastime?

What's your favorite pastime?

My dad's pastime is skydiving.

My pastime is collecting insects.

Playing go is my favorite pastime.

Playing the piano is her favorite pastime.

Playing the piano is her favorite pastime.

Unfortunately, at some point our art such a joyful pastime ends.

My favorite pastime is strolling along the shore.

My favorite pastime is strolling along the shore.

It's a perennial pastime, especially around election time, but the world is complex.

Reading comics is usually viewed as the pastime of children.

Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing, etc.).

If We willed to choose a pastime, We could have chosen it from Ourselves if We wanted to.

If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence if We ever did.

When you call to prayer, they treat it as a jest and a pastime. That is because they are a people who have no understanding.

But when they spy some merchandise or pastime they break away to it and leave thee standing. Say That which Allah hath is better than pastime and than merchandise, and Allah is the Best of providers.

And so many of our institutions, even football, which used to be a pleasant pastime, now causes riots where people even die.

This life of the world is but a pastime and a game. Lo! the home of the Hereafter that is Life, if they but knew.

And it kind of became our pastime to do these brain teasers in the back of magazines.

Had We intended to take a pastime (i.e. a wife or a son, etc.), We could surely have taken it from Us, if We were going to do (that).

Had We wished to find a pastime, We would surely have found it in that which is with Us, if such had been Our will.

The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime. Surely the Home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear God. Will you not understand?

Had it been Our will to find a pastime, We would have found one near at hand if at all We were inclined to do so.

If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!

The life of the world is but a sport and a pastime. And if ye believe and fear, He will give you your hire, and will not require of you your substance.

The life of this world is only a game, a pastime, but if you believe and are mindful of God, He will recompense you and will not ask you for your wealth.

The life of this world is nothing except a pastime and sport and undoubtedly the abode of the Hereafter is better for the pious so do you not have sense?

Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have ye then no sense?

The life of the world is but a sport and a pastime. And if ye believe and ward off (evil). He will give you your wages, and will not ask of you your wordly wealth.

The life of this world is nothing but a sport and a pastime, and the life of the Hereafter is far better for those who seek to ward off their ruin. Will you not, then, understand?

Believers, do not take as guides those who were given the Book before you who have made of your religion a jest and a pastime, nor the unbelievers. Have fear of Allah, if you are believers.

And this worldly life is nothing but pastime and game indeed the abode of the Hereafter that is indeed the true life if only they knew.

The worldly life is just a sport and pastime and if you accept faith and be pious, He will bestow your rewards to you, and not at all ask you for your wealth.

And of mankind is he who payeth for mere pastime of discourse, that he may mislead from Allah's way without knowledge, and maketh it the butt of mockery. For such there is a shameful doom.

And if you ask them, they will say, We were just having fun and pastime say, What! You mock at Allah and His verses and His Noble Messenger?

The life of this word is nothing but play and pastime. But if you have faith and lead a righteous life, He will grant you your rewards, and He will not ask you for your possessions.

People who made their religion a sport and pastime, and whom the worldly life deceived so this day We will disregard them, the way they had neglected their confronting of this day, and the way they used to deny Our signs.

Who treated religion as a pastime and an idle sport and whom the life of the world had beguiled. On that Day We shall forget them, as they forgot their meeting of that Day with Us, for they denied Our revelations.

Who took their religion for a sport and pastime, and whom the life of the world beguiled. So this day We have forgotten them even as they forgot the meeting of this their Day and as they used to deny Our tokens.