Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Evil as an example are the people who deny Our proofs, and they wrong their souls.

سَٓاءَ مَثَلاًۨ الْقَوْمُ الَّذ۪ينَ كَذَّبُوا بِاٰيَاتِنَا وَاَنْفُسَهُمْ كَانُوا يَظْلِمُونَ
Saa mathalan alqawmu allatheenakaththaboo bi-ayatina waanfusahum kanooyathlimoon
#wordmeaningroot
1sāaEvilسوا
2mathalan(as) an exampleمثل
3l-qawmu(are) the peopleقوم
4alladhīnathose who
5kadhabūdeniedكذب
6biāyātināOur Signsايي
7wa-anfusahumand themselvesنفس
8kānūthey used toكون
9yaẓlimūnawrongظلم
  • Aisha Bewley

    How evil is the metaphor of those who deny Our Signs. It is themselves that they have badly wronged.

  • Progressive Muslims

    Miserable is the example of the people who denied Our revelations, and it was their souls that they had wronged.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Indeed, pitiable is the example of those who reject Our Verses, since they hurt their own "Self".

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Evil as an example are the people who deny Our proofs, and they wrong their souls.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Miserable is the example of the people who denied Our revelations, and it was their souls that they had wronged.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Miserable is the example of the people who denied Our signs, and it was themselves that they had wronged.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Bad indeed is the example of people who reject our proofs; it is only their own souls that they wrong.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Evil is the case of those who deny Our signs and wrong themselves.

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

    How evil an example the people who denied Our signs and used to wrong themselves.

  • Muhammad Asad

    Evil is the example of people who are bent on giving the lie to Our messages: for it is against their own selves that they are sinning!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Evil as an example are the folk who denied Our revelations, and were wont to wrong themselves.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Evil is the example of the people who reject Our signs as false and perpetrate wrong against their own selves.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Evil indeed is the similitude of those who denied Our signs and refused to recognize Our revelations and were unreasonable and unjust to themselves.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    How sad is the story of those who chose to disregard My revelations and, consequently, do injustice to their own souls.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Evil is the parable of the people who rejected Our Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses and signs, etc.), and used to wrong their ownselves.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    What an evil example of those who denied Our signs! They ˹only˺ wronged their own souls.

  • Taqi Usmani

    Evil is the example of those who have rejected Our signs and have been doing wrong to themselves.

  • Abdul Haleem

    How foul is the image of those who reject Our signs! It is themselves they wrong:

  • Arthur John Arberry

    An evil likeness is the likeness of the people who cried lies to Our signs, and themselves were wronging.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Evil is the likeness of a people who say our signs are lies; themselves it is they wrong!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Evil is the likeness of a people who deny Our revelations (or Signs) and wrong their own souls.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    An odious likeness (is the likeness) of the people who have cried lies to Our signs, and to themselves they were doing injustice..

  • George Sale

    Evil is the case of the people who treat Our Signs as lies. And it was their ownselves that they wronged.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Evil is the example of people who reject Our Signs and (they) used to wrong themselves.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Sad is the case of the people who cry lies to Our commandments and it is their own selves that they have wronged.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Evil is the parable of the people who deny Our signs and wrong themselves.