# 108. Surah Al-Kawthar, Verse 3 - **Surah:** 108. Surah Al-Kawthar (Abundance) — سورة الكوثر - **Verse:** 3 / 3 · **Juz:** 30 · **Mushaf page:** 602 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-al-kawthar/verse-3 ## Arabic اِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْاَبْتَرُ ## Transcription Inna shani-aka huwa al-abtar ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley It is the one who hates you who is cut off without an heir. ### Progressive Muslims Indeed your rival will be the loser. ### Shabbir Ahmed Verily, it is your opponent that will be cutting himself off from the Abundant Good. ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation He that hates thee — he is the one cut off. ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation Indeed your rival will be the loser. ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament Your opponent will be the loser. ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira It is surely your opponents whose line will come to end. ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off. ### Muhammad Asad Verily, he that hates thee has indeed been cut off [from all that is good]! ### Marmaduke Pickthall Lo! it is thy insulter (and not thou) who is without posterity. ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary Verily your enemy[1] alone has been cut off from the roots.[2] _Footnotes_ - [1] The word shani as used, in the original is derived from shaan, which means the hatred and spite because of which a person may start ill-treating another. At another place in the Quran it has been said: (And O Muslims,) the enmity of any people should not so provoke you as to turn you away from justice. (Surah Al-Maidah, Ayat 8). Thus, shani aka implies every such person who blinded by his enmity of the Prophet (peace be upon him) should bring false accusations against him, slander and defame him and vent his personal spite against him by taunting and scoffing at him in every possible way. - [2] Huwal abtar: He himself is abtar, i.e. though he calls you abtar, he in fact himself is abtar. Some explanations of abtar have already been given in the Introduction to the Surah. It is derived from batar which means to cut off, but idiomatically it is used in a comprehensive meaning. In the Hadith, the rakah of the Prayer which is not coupled with another rakah is called butaira, i.e. the lonely rakah. According to another Hadith, every piece of work, which is in any way important, is abtar if it is started without the glorification and praise of Allah implying that it is cut off from the root; it has no stability; and it is doomed to failure. A man who fails to achieve his object is abtar as also the one who is deprived of all means and resources. A person who is left with no hope of any good and success in life is also abtar. A person who has been cut off from his family, brotherhood, associates and helpers is also abtar. The word abtar is also used for the man who has no male child, or whose male child or children have died, for after him there remains no one to remember him and he is lost to posterity after death. In almost all these meanings the disbelieving Quraish called the Prophet (peace be upon him) abtar. At this, Allah said: O Prophet, not you but your enemies are abtar. This was not merely a reprisal, but a prophecy out of the most important prophecies of the Quran, which literally proved true. When it was made, the people regarded the Prophet (peace be upon him) as abtar, and no one could imagine how the big chiefs of the Quraish would become abtar, who were famous not only in Makkah but throughout Arabia, who were successful in life, rich in worldly wealth and children, who had their associates and helpers everywhere in the country, who enjoyed intimate relations with all the Arabian tribes, being monopolists in trade and managers of Hajj. But not long afterwards the conditions altogether changed. There was a time when on the occasion of the Battle of the Trench (A.H. 5) the Quraish had invaded Al-Madinah with the help of many Arabian and Jewish tribes, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) being besieged had to resist the enemy by digging a trench around the city. After only three years, in A.H. 8, when he attacked Makkah, the Quraish had no helper and they had to surrender helplessly. After this within a year or so the whole Arabia came under his control, deputations of tribes from all over the country began to visit him to take the oaths of allegiance and his enemies were left utterly helpless and resource-less. Then they were so lost to posterity that even if their children survived, none of them today knows that he is a descendent of Abu Jahl, Abu Lahab, Aas bin Wail, or Uqbah bin Abi Muait, the enemies of Islam, and even if he knows it, he is not prepared to claim that his ancestors were those people. On the contrary, blessings are being invoked on the children of the Prophet (peace be upon him) throughout the world; millions and millions of Muslims take pride in bearing relationship to him; hundreds of thousands of people regard it as a mark of honor and prestige to have descended not only from him but from his family and even the families of his companions. Thus, some one is a Sayyid, another an Alavi, and Abbasi, a Hashmi, a Siddiqi, a Faruqi, an Uthmani, a Zubairi, or an Ansari, but no one is an Abu Jahli or Abu Lahabi. History has proved that not the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) but his enemies were, and are, abtar. ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab As to your enemy who bore malice to you; it is he and not you who shall he cut off all hope and posterity and drown in shame. He will be denied the praise of his name to fame. ### Bijan Moeinian Surely your enemy will soon be "cut off" (humiliated. ) ### Al-Hilali & Khan For he who hates you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), he will be cut off (from posterity and every good thing in this world and in the Hereafter).[1] ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope). ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran Only the one who hates you is truly cut off ˹from any goodness˺. ### Taqi Usmani Surely it is your enemy whose traces are cut off. ### Abdul Haleem it is the one who hates you who has been cut off. ### Arthur John Arberry Surely he that hates thee, he is the one cut off. ### E. Henry Palmer Verily, he who hates thee shall be childless. ### Hamid S. Aziz Verily, he who insults you shall be issueless (cut off). ### Mahmoud Ghali Surely your antagonist is he who is without offspring (Literally: curtailed). ### George Sale verily he who hateth thee shall be childless. ### Syed Vickar Ahamed Because he who hates you— He will be cut off (from the hope of the future). ### Amatul Rahman Omar Surely, it is your enemy who is cut off entirely (from all good and prosperity and is deprived of Spiritual issues). ### Ali Quli Qarai Indeed it is your enemy who is without posterity. ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü Muhakkak ki sana hıncı olan var ya, asıl odur ebter (soyu kesik)! ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı Doğrusu, asıl ebter (soyu kesik) olan sana kin duyandır. ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali Asıl "nesli kesik" olan, sana buğzedendir. ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Doğrusu sana buğzeden, soyu kesik olanın ta kendisidir. ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali doğrusu sana buğz edendir ebter. ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) Doğrusu sana kin besleyendir soyu kesik olan! ### Gültekin Onan Doğrusu, asıl ebter (soyu kesik) olan sana kin duyandır. ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim Sana buğzeden (yok mu? İşte asıl) zürriyetsiz olan şübhesiz Odur. ### İbni Kesir Sana buğzeden; şüphesiz ki zürriyetsiz olan, işte odur. ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı Şu gerçek ki, senden nefret eden, (her türlü iyilik ve güzellikten) kesilmektedir! ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı Gerçek şu ki sana kin besleyen /düşmanının soyu kesiktir. ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Asıl sonu kesik olan, sana buğzedendir. ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Kuşkun olmasın ki ebter/soyu kesik, seni kötüleyenin ta kendisidir! ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Bir başka gerçek de şu ki; (hayırdan) tamamen kesilip kopmuştur senden nefret eden. ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Kuşkusuz o sana buğzeden[1], sonu olmayanın ta kendisidir.[2] _Footnotes_ - [1] Nefret eden, kin besleyen. - [2] Sonu ebter/beter olacak olandır. Sonu kötü olacak olan odur. ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Aslında, soyu kesik olan, seni kötüleyendir.[624] _Footnotes_ - [624] "Soyu kesik olan" biçiminde yazdığımız "Ebter" sözcüğü, Kur'an çevirilerinde, "Senin soyunla uğraşan" veya "Sana kin duyan" veya "Sana dil uzatan" veya "Sana düşmanlık eden" biçiminde çevrilmiş; kimi çevirilerde ise "Ebter" olarak bırakılmıştır. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Unutulup gidecek[1] , senden nefret edendir[2]. _Footnotes_ - [1] - [2] "Sura üflendiğinde kafirlerin arasında nesep bağı kalmaz, o gün birbirlerini arayıp sormazlar da…" (Müminun 23/101) ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir Şüphesiz ki asıl (hayırdan yana) soyu kesik olan, sana kin duyandır. ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Kuşkusuz o sana buğzeden[1], sonu olmayanın ta kendisidir.[2] _Footnotes_ - [1] Nefret eden, kin besleyen. - [2] Sonu ebter/beter olacak olandır. Sonu kötü olacak olan odur. ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Kuşkusuz o sana buğzeden,[1] sonu olmayanın ta kendisidir.[2] _Footnotes_ - [1] Nefret eden, kin besleyen. - [2] Sonu ebter/beter olacak olandır. Sonu kötü olacak olan odur. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Senden nefret eden, hiçbir sonuç elde edemeyecek olandır.[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] Kafirler ahirette hep unutulup gideceklerdir ([Müminun 23/101,](https://quran.so/23/101) [Kasas 28/66,](https://quran.so/28/66) [Mearic 70/10](https://quran.so/70/10)-[14,](https://quran.so/70/14) [Abese 80/33](https://quran.so/80/33)-[37](https://quran.so/80/37)). ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | إِنَّ — inna | Indeed | — | | 2 | شَانِئَكَ — shāni-aka | your enemy | شنا — Şin-Nun-Elif | | 3 | هُوَ — huwa | he (is) | — | | 4 | ٱلْأَبْتَرُ — l-abtaru | the one cut off | بتر — Be-Te-Ra | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-al-kawthar/verse-2.md Retrieved: 2026-08-16 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.