This verse implies how greedy are they; and how avaricious and grasping they are to this mortal life, and in particular to rank and wealth. ``You will indeed find them the greediest people for life, even more than the pagans and idolaters; so much so that, each one of them wished that he could be given a life of a thousand years, but even the grant of such life will not save them, and Allah sees whatever they do.