Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

Relentless and useless,

عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذٰلِكَ زَن۪يمٍۙ
AAutullin baAAda thalika zaneem
#wordmeaningroot
1ʿutullinCruelعتل
2baʿdaafterبعد
3dhālika(all) that
4zanīminutterly uselessزنم
  • Aisha Bewley

    gross, coarse and furthermore, despicable,

  • Progressive Muslims

    Unappreciative, and greedy.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    - Or to one greedy to the extent of insensitivity, and, in addition, worthless to the society.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    Relentless and useless,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Unappreciative, and greedy.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Ignoble, and additionally, mischievous.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Unappreciative, and greedy.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Crude, and above all, mean and infamous,

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

    Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.

  • Muhammad Asad

    one who is cruel, by greed possessed, and, in addition to all this, utterly useless .

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Greedy therewithal, intrusive.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    the coarse-grained, and above all mean and ignoble;*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Moreover, cruel, hurtful and callous.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    … above all, a low life at birth.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Cruel, and moreover base-born (of illegitimate birth).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Violent (and cruel),- with all that, base-born,-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    brute, and—on top of all that—an illegitimate child.

  • Taqi Usmani

    harsh, (and) after all that, notorious,

  • Abdul Haleem

    coarse, and on top of all that, an imposter.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    moreover ignoble,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    rude, and base-born too;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Ignoble (violent, cruel and greedy), besides all that, base-born (inherently degenerate);

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Coarse-grained, and of spurious parentage after all (Literally: after that)

  • George Sale

    cruel, and besides this, of spurious birth:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Violent (and cruel) and in addition a shrewd manipulator—

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (Nor listen to any) hard-hearted ruffian who is, above all this, utterly useless and known for mischief making,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    callous and, on top of that, baseborn,