Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

From Pharaoh: — he was a high one among the committers of excess.

مِنْ فِرْعَوْنَۜ اِنَّهُ كَانَ عَالِياً مِنَ الْمُسْرِف۪ينَ
Min firAAawna innahu kana AAaliyanmina almusrifeen
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2fir'ʿawnaFiraun
3innahuIndeed, he
4kānawasكون
5ʿāliyanarrogantعلو
6minaamong
7l-mus'rifīnathe transgressorsسرف
  • Aisha Bewley

    from Pharaoh – he was haughty, one of the profligate.

  • Progressive Muslims

    From Pharaoh; he was a transgressing tyrant.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    From Pharaoh, for he glorified himself to the extent of wasting his own "Self. "

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    From Pharaoh: — he was a high one among the committers of excess.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    From Pharaoh; he was a transgressing tyrant.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    From Pharaoh; he was a transgressing tyrant.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    From Pharaoh; he was a tyrant.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    They (had experienced) under the Pharaoh. He was certainly a tyrant, guilty of excess.

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

    From Pharaoh. Indeed, he was a haughty one among the transgressors.

  • Muhammad Asad

    by Pharaoh, seeing that he was truly outstand­ing among those who waste their own selves;

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    (We delivered them) from Pharaoh. Lo! he was a tyrant of the wanton ones.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    from Pharaoh who was most prominent among the prodigals.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Inflicted by Pharaoh who beheld his unfortunate people from an exalted throne and was extravagant in his account of himself and was fond of his own way which he saw but the one way to erect tyrannies in all his cities.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    the Pharaoh who was indeed the most prominent tyrant.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    From Fir‘aun (Pharaoh); verily he was arrogant and was of the Musrifûn (those who transgress beyond bound in spending and other things and commit great sins).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    of Pharaoh. He was truly a tyrant, a transgressor.

  • Taqi Usmani

    from Fir‘aun. Indeed, he was haughty, one of the transgressors.

  • Abdul Haleem

    at the hands of Pharaoh: he was a tyrant who exceeded all bounds.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    from Pharaoh; surely he was a high One, of the prodigals;

  • E. Henry Palmer

    - from Pharaoh; verily, he was haughty, one of the extravagant!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    From Pharaoh; surely he was haughty, (and) one of those who committed excesses.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    From Firaawn; (Pharaoh) surely he was exalted, of the extravagant.

  • George Sale

    from Pharaoh; for he was haughty, and a transgressor:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Caused by Firon (Pharaoh), indeed he was proud (haughty and arrogant, even) among unruly transgressors.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    From (the torment of) Pharaoh. He was surely haughty (and one) of the transgressors.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    from Pharaoh. Indeed he was a tyrant among the profligates.