(متاع قليل)
This is the predicate of an omitted subject, meaning: "It"—that is, their movement and activity—"is a small enjoyment." Its scarcity is either in consideration of its short duration, or by comparison to what they have missed out on regarding the reward that Allah the Exalted has prepared for the believers. In what Muslim narrated as *marfu'* (attributed to the Prophet): "The world, in comparison to the Hereafter, is only like one of you dipping his finger into the sea, then let him see with what it returns." It has also been said that describing this enjoyment as "small" is in comparison to the burden of the effort and the enduring of hardships, let alone the reckoning and punishment that follows it in the abode of requital—and its distance [from the most apparent meaning] is not hidden.
(ثم مأواهم)
Meaning: their destination, to which they retreat and in which they settle after their departure from the places in which they used to move about.
(جهنم)
That whose punishment cannot be described.
(وبئس المهاد)
Meaning: evil is that which they have laid out for themselves and prepared as a bed—[which is] Hell. In this is an indication that their fate in that abode is a result of what their own selves have committed and what their hands have earned.
