Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Woe to every slanderer, fault-finder,

وَيْلٌ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍۨۙ
Waylun likulli humazatin lumaza
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  • Aisha Bewley

    Woe to every faultfinding backbiter

  • Progressive Muslims

    Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Woe unto every slanderer, fault-finder! (He himself does little but spends a lot of energy detracting the doers).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Woe to every slanderer, fault-finder,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Woe to every backbiter, slanderer.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Woe to every backbiter, slanderer.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    WOE TO EVERY slanderer, back-biter,

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    Woe to every scorner and mocker

  • Muhammad Asad

    WOE unto every slanderer, fault-finder!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Woe unto every slandering traducer,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Woe to every fault-finding backbiter;*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Woe to every scandal-monger who thrives on traducing people,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    How sad is the case of a back biter and slanderer.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Woe to every slanderer and backbiter.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Woe to every (kind of) scandal-monger and-backbiter,

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Woe to every backbiter, slanderer,

  • Taqi Usmani

    Woe to every backbiter, derider

  • Abdul Haleem

    Woe to every fault-finding backbiter

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Woe to every slanderous backbiter,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Woe to every slanderous scandal-monger and backbiter,

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Woe to every persistent slanderer, persistent defamer,

  • George Sale

    Woe unto every slanderer, and backbiter:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Grief (and warning) to every Scandal-monger and backbiter,

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Disaster is (decreed) for every slanderer, defamer,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Woe to every scandal-monger and slanderer,