# 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 202 - **Surah:** 7. Surah Al-A'raf (The Heights) — سورة الأعراف - **Verse:** 202 / 206 · **Juz:** 9 · **Mushaf page:** 175 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-202 ## Arabic وَاِخْوَانُهُمْ يَمُدُّونَهُمْ فِي الْغَيِّ ثُمَّ لَا يُقْصِرُونَ ## Transcription Wa-ikhwanuhum yamuddoonahum feealghayyi thumma la yuqsiroon ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley But as for their brothers, the visitors lead them further into error. And they do not stop at that! ### Progressive Muslims And their brethren attempt to drive them towards error, they do not cease. ### Shabbir Ahmed The hinderers and their comrades plunge one another deeper into error, and cease not. ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation When their brethren assist them in error — then do they not cease. ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation And their brethren attempt to drive them towards error, they do not cease. ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament Their brethren ceaselessly entice them to go astray. ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira Even though their (devilish) brothers would like them to continue in error, and would not desist. ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) But their brothers - the devils increase them in error; then they do not stop short. ### Muhammad Asad even though their [godless] brethren would [like to] draw them into error: and then they cannot fail [to do what is right]. ### Marmaduke Pickthall Their brethren plunge them further into error and cease not. ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary As for their brethren [the Satans], they draw them deeper into error and do not relax in their efforts.[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] Here some important directives are addressed to the Prophet (peace be on him) regarding how he should preach the Message of Islam and how he should guide and reform people. The object of these directives is not merely to instruct the Prophet (peace be on him), but also to instruct all those who would shoulder the same responsibility after the Prophet (peace be on him) was no longer amidst them. The major directives are as follows: (1) The most important qualities that must be cultivated by anyone who calls others to the truth are tenderness, magnanimity, and forbearing. Such a person should also have the capacity to tolerate the lapses of his companions and to patiently endure the excesses of his opponents. He should also be able to keep his cool in the face of grave provocation and gracefully connive at the offensive behaviour of others. In facing the angry words, slander, persecution and mischief of his opponents, he should exercise the utmost self-restraint. Harshness, severity, bitterness. and vindictive provocativeness on his part are bound to undermine his mission. The same point seems to have been made in a Hadith in which the Prophet (peace be on him) says that he has been commanded by his Lord: '...to say the just word whether I am angry, or pleased; to maintain ties with nim who severs ties with me; and to give to him who denies me (my right); and to forgive him who wrongs me.' (See the comments of Qurtubi in his Tafsir on the verse - Ed.) The Prophet (peace be on him) also instructed all those whom he deputized for preaching: 'Give good news rather than arouse revulsion: make things easy rather than hard.' (Muslim, Kitab al-Ilm, Bab fi al-amr bi al-Taysir wa Tark al-Ta'sir'- Ed.) This distinguishing feature of the Prophet's personality has also been mentioned in the Qur'an. It was thanks to Allah's mercy that you were gentle to them. Had you been rough, hard-hearted, they would surely have scattered away, from you (AI 'Imran 3:159). (2) The second key to the success in da'wah work is to stay away from excessive theorizing and intellectual hair-splitting. One should rather call people in clear and simple terms to those virtues which are recognized as such by the generality of mankind and appeal to common sense. The great advantage of this method is that the Message of Islam finds its way right to the hearts of people at all levels of understanding. Those who then seek to oppose the Message are soon exposed and end up antagonizing the common people. For when the common people obserse on the one hand decent and righteous people being opposed for the simple reason that they are inviting people to universally-known virtues, and on the other hand observe those opponents resorting to all kinds of immoral and inhuman means, they are bound to incline to support the standard bearers of truth and righteousness. This process goes on until a point where the only opponents left are those whose self-interest is inextricably linked with the prevailing unrighteous system, or those's who have been totally blinded by their bigoted adherence to ancestral tradition or by their irrational biases. The wisdom underlying the Prophet's method accounts for his phenomenal success and for the speedy spread of Islam in and around Arabia within a short span of time. People flocked to Islam in vast numbers so much so that in some lands eighty and ninety per cent of the population embraced Islam. In fact there are even instances of a hundred per cent of the population embracing Islam. (3) The interest of the Islamic mission requires, on the one hand, that righteousness should be enjoined on those who have the propensity to become righteous. On the other hand, it also requires that those who are overly insistent in their adherence to falsehood, should be left alone, and that their acts of provocation be ignored. Those who seek to spread Islam should confine their efforts to persuading only those who are prepared to consider the Message of Islam in reasonable manner. When someone becomes altogether unreasonable and quarrelsome, and resorts to indecent methods of taunting and reviling Islam, Muslims should simply refuse to become adversative. For all the time and effort devoted to reforming such people will be totally wasted. (4) The moment the proponent of the Islamic Message feels that he is being provoked by the excesses, mischief, and uncalled-for objections and accusation, he should realize that he is being influenced by Satan. In such a situation he should immediately seek refuge with God, and restrain himself lest his impulsiveness damage his cause. The cause of Islam can be served only by those who act cool-headedly. Only those steps are appropriate which have been taken after due consideration rather than under the influence of impulse and emotion. Satan, however, is ever on the look-out for opportunities to sabotage the efforts made in the cause of Islam. He, therefore, ensures that those who are working for the Islamic cause are subjected to unjust and mischievous attacks from their opponents. The purpose underlying this is to provoke the workers for the cause of Islam to engage in the senseless and harmful task of mounting counter-attacks against their opponents. The appeal that Satan makes to those well-meaning, religious people is often couched in religious phraseology and is backed up by religious argument. But the fact is that those counter-attacks are undertaken merely under the impulse of man's lower self. The last two verses, therefore, make it clear that those who are God-fearing are always very sensitive to provocations under the impulse of Satan, and as soon as they become aware of such a provocation, they promote the best interests of the cause of truth rather than satisfy their vengeful feelings. As for those who are driven by egotistical impulses, they succumb to the promptings of Satan and are eventually set on an erroneous path. They fall victim to Satan, act virtually as his puppet, and subsequently their degradation knows no limit. They pay their opponents back in the same coin, tit for tat.What has been said above also has another import. It seeks to remind the God-fearing that their ways should be perceptibly different from the ways of those who do not fear God. The God-fearing not only avoid evil, but the very idea of committing it pricks their conscience and rankles their hearts. They have an instinctive revulsion against evil, a revulsion similar to what a cleanliness-loving man feels at the sight of a big stain or a splash of filth on his clothes. This feeling causes the God-fearing to remove every stain of evil. Quite contrary are those who have no fear of God, who have no desire to stay away from evil and who are in harmony with the ways of Satan. Such people are always given to evil thoughts and wrong-doing. ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab Yet the satanic among the Jinn and mankind keep driving divergence by dint of repetition into the infidels' heads and simply lead the way. ### Bijan Moeinian As for their brothers [who fall into the Satan's trap], they are continuously being enticed to adopt the wrong path. ### Al-Hilali & Khan But (as for) their brothers (the devils) they (i.e. the devils) plunge them deeper into error, and they never stop short. ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali But their brethren (the evil ones) plunge them deeper into error, and never relax (their efforts). ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran But the devils persistently plunge their ˹human˺ associates[1] deeper into wickedness, sparing no effort. ### Taqi Usmani As for the brethren of satans, they are dragged by them on into the error, and they do not desist. ### Abdul Haleem the followers of devils are led relentlessly into error by them and cannot stop. ### Arthur John Arberry and their brothers they lead on into error, then they stop not short. ### E. Henry Palmer And their brethren he shall increase in error, then they shall not desist. ### Hamid S. Aziz And their brethren he shall increase in error, then they shall not desist. ### Mahmoud Ghali And their brethren reinforce them into misguidance, thereafter they do not stop short. . ### George Sale And the brethren of the disbelievers draw them into error and then they relax not their efforts. ### Syed Vickar Ahamed But their brothers (the Satans' among them) get them deeper into error, and never let go. ### Amatul Rahman Omar And their brethren (the human associates of satan) draw them into error and they do not relax (in their evil designs). ### Ali Quli Qarai But their brethren, they draw them into error, and then they do not spare [any harm]. ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü (Şeytanların) kardeşleri ise onları duygusallığa, azgınlığa sürüklerler. . . Sonra da yakalarını hiç bırakmazlar! ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı (Şeytan'ın) Kardeşleri ise, onları sapıklığa sürüklerler, sonra peşlerini bırakmazlar. ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali Şeytanın kardeşleri onları azgınlığa çekerler, hiç yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Şeytanlara kardeş olanlara gelince, şeytanlar onları azgınlığın içine çekerler, sonra da bundan hiç geri durmazlar. ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Şeytanların ihvanı ise onlar bunları dalale sürükler, sonra da yakalarını bırakmazlar ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) Şeytanların kardeşleri ise, bunları sapıklığa sürüklerler, sonra da yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Gültekin Onan (Şeytanın) Kardeşleri ise onları sapıklığa sürüklerler, sonra peşlerini bırakmazlar. ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim (Şeytanların) kardeşleri (olan kafirleri) ise bunlar sapıklığa sürerler, sonra da (bir daha yakalarını) bırakmazlar. ### İbni Kesir Kardeşleri ise onları azgınlığa sürüklerler. Sonra da bırakmazlar. ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı kendi (inançsız) kardeşleri onları sapıklığa sürüklemek isteseler bile. Sonra (doğru olan neyse, onu yapmaktan) geri kalmazlar. ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı Şeytanların kardeşleri onları azgınlığa sürüklemekten geri durmazlar. ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Kardeşleri ise onları, azgınlığa çekerler, hiç yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Yoldaşları ise onları sürekli azgınlığa iterler, sonra da yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Kendi (fıtratlarına yabancılaşmış) kardeşleri onları azgın sulara sürüklemek isteseler dahi, sonuna (dek) mücadeleden el çekmezler. ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Şeytanlar, kendilerine kardeş olanları azgınlığa sürüklerler, sonra da yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Kardeşleri ise onları sapkınlığa sürükler. Sonra, peşlerini bırakmazlar. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali (Şeytanların) Kardeşleri ise bunları azgınlığa sürüklerler. Sonra ellerinden geleni artlarına koymazlar. ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir (Şeytanların) kardeşleri ise onları azgınlığa sürükler; peşlerini bırakmazlar. ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Şeytanlar, kendilerine kardeş olanları azgınlığa sürüklerler, sonra da yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Şeytanlar, kendilerine kardeş olanları azgınlığa sürüklerler, sonra da yakalarını bırakmazlar. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Şeytanların kardeşlerine gelince; şeytanlar onlara yanlış kurgularda destek verir, onlar da ellerinden geleni artlarına koymazlar. ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | وَإِخْوَٰنُهُمْ — wa-ikh'wānuhum | But their brothers | اخو — Elif-Kh-Vav | | 2 | يَمُدُّونَهُمْ — yamuddūnahum | they plunge them | مدد — Mim-Dal-Dal | | 3 | فِى — fī | in | — | | 4 | ٱلْغَىِّ — l-ghayi | the error | غوي — Gayn-Vav-Ye | | 5 | ثُمَّ — thumma | then | — | | 6 | لَا — lā | not | — | | 7 | يُقْصِرُونَ — yuq'ṣirūna | they cease | قصر — Kaf-Sad-Ra | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-201.md · Next: https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-203.md Retrieved: 2026-08-14 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.