# 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 117 - **Surah:** 3. Surah Ali 'Imran (The Family of Imraan) — سورة آل عمران - **Verse:** 117 / 200 · **Juz:** 4 · **Mushaf page:** 64 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-117 ## Arabic مَثَلُ مَا يُنْفِقُونَ ف۪ي هٰذِهِ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ ر۪يحٍ ف۪يهَا صِرٌّ اَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ فَاَهْلَكَتْهُۜ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللّٰهُ وَلٰكِنْ اَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ ## Transcription Mathalu ma yunfiqoona fee hathihialhayati addunya kamathali reehinfeeha sirrun asabat hartha qawmin thalamooanfusahum faahlakat-hu wama thalamahumu Allahuwalakin anfusahum yathlimoon ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley The metaphor of what they spend in their life in this world is that of a wind with an icy bite to it which strikes the crops of a people who have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah did not wrong them; rather it was themselves they were wronging. ### Progressive Muslims The example of what they spend in this world is like a wind in which there is a frost; it afflicts the field of the people who wronged themselves, and thus destroys it. God did not wrong them, but it was their souls that they wronged. ### Shabbir Ahmed The likeness of what they spend in this life of the world is the likeness of a biting, frosty wind that destroys the harvest of a people who wronged their own "Self". Allah wronged them not, but they wronged themselves. (They spent their wealth on themselves although it was a trust given to them to share with fellow human beings). ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation The likeness of what they spend in the life of this world is as the likeness of a wind wherein was biting cold: it befell the tilth of a people who wronged their souls and destroyed it; and God wronged them not, but they wronged themselves. ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation The example of what they spend in this world is like a wind in which there is a frost; it afflicts the field of the people who wronged themselves, and thus destroys it. God did not wrong them, but it was their souls that they wronged. ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament The example of their accomplishments in this life is like a violent wind that hits the harvest of people who have wronged their souls, and wipes it out. GOD never wronged them; it is they who wronged themselves. ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira What they spend in the life of this world is like a frosty wind which smites and destroys the crops of a people who had wronged themselves. God did not wrong them, they wronged themselves. ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) The example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves and destroys it. And Allah has not wronged them, but they wrong themselves. ### Muhammad Asad The parable of what they spend on the life of this world is that of an icy wind which smites the tilth of people who have sinned against themselves, and destroys it: for, it is not God who does them wrong, but it is they who are wronging themselves. ### Marmaduke Pickthall The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they do wrong themselves. ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary The example of what they spend in the life of this world is like that of a wind accompanied with frost which smites the harvest of a people who wronged themselves, and lays it to waste.[1] It is not Allah who wronged them; rather it is they who wrong themselves. _Footnotes_ - [1] The term 'harvest' in this parable refers to this life which resembles a field of cultivation the harvest of which one will reap in the World to Come. The 'wind' refers to the superficial appearance of righteousness, for the sake of which unbelievers spend their wealth on philanthropic and charitable causes. The expression 'frost' indicates their lack of true faith and their failure to follow the Divine Laws, as a result of which their entire life has gone astray.By means of this parable God seeks to bring home to them that while wind is useful for the growth of cultivation if that wind turns into frost it destroys it. So it is with man's acts of charity: they can prove helpful to the growth of the harvest one will reap in the Hereafter but are liable to be destructive if mixed with unbelief. God is the Lord and Master of man as well as of all that man owns, and the world in which he lives. If a man either does not recognize the sovereignty of his Lord and unlawfully serves others or disobeys God's Laws then his actions become crimes for which he deserves to be tried; his acts of 'charity' are but the acts of a servant who unlawfully helps himself to his master's treasure and then spends it as he likes. ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab The example of whatever they spent in this world that was not pertaining to Allah is just like the crops of wrong headed farmers who were wrongful of actions. Their yield was hit by an icy cold wind that reduced it to ruin. It was not Allah Who did them injustice but it was they who wronged themselves. ### Bijan Moeinian Their accomplishments in this world will be wiped out like a harvest scattered by a strong windstorm. God never means to harm them; it is them who are unjust to their own souls. ### Al-Hilali & Khan The likeness of what they spend in this world is the likeness of a wind which is extremely cold; it struck the harvest of a people who did wrong against themselves and destroyed it, (i.e. the good deed of a person is only accepted if he is a monotheist and believes in all the Prophets of Allâh, including the Christ عليه السلام and Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم). Allâh wronged them not, but they wronged themselves. ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali What they spend in the life of this (material) world May be likened to a wind which brings a nipping frost: It strikes and destroys the harvest of men who have wronged their own souls: it is not Allah that hath wronged them, but they wrong themselves. ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran The good they do in this worldly life is like the harvest of an evil people struck by a bitter wind, destroying it ˹completely˺. Allah never wronged them, but they wronged themselves. ### Taqi Usmani The example of what they spend in this worldly life is just like a wind that, having chill within, struck the tillage of those who wronged themselves, and destroyed it. Allah has not wronged them; rather, they did wrong to themselves. ### Abdul Haleem and whatever they give away in this life will be nullified: a frosty wind strikes and destroys the harvest of people who have wronged themselves. It was not God who wronged them; they wronged themselves. ### Arthur John Arberry The likeness of that they expend in this present life is as the likeness of a freezing blast that smites the tillage of a people who wronged themselves, and it destroyed that; God wronged them not, but themselves they wronged. ### E. Henry Palmer The likeness of what they expend in this life of the world, is as the likeness of wind wherein is a cold blast that falls upon a people's tilth who have wronged themselves and destroys it. It is not God who wrongs them, but it is themselves they wrong. ### Hamid S. Aziz The likeness of what they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of wind wherein is a cold blast that falls upon the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves and destroys it. It is not Allah who wrongs them, but it is themselves they wrong. ### Mahmoud Ghali The likeness of whatever they expend in this present life (Literally: the lowly "life", i. e., the life of this world) is as the likeness of a wind wherein there is clamoring cold that afflicted the tillage of a people who did injustice to themselves, and so it did cause it to perish. And in no way did Allah do any injustice to them but they did injustice to themselves. ### George Sale The likeness of that which they lay out in this present life, is as a wind wherein there is a scorching cold: It falleth on the standing corn of those men who have injured their own souls, and destroyeth it. And God dealeth not unjustly with them; but they injure their own souls. ### Syed Vickar Ahamed What they spend in the life from this (material) world may be compared to a wind that brings nipping frost: It strikes and destroys the crops of men who have wronged their own souls: It is not Allah who has wronged them, but they (continue to) wrong themselves. ### Amatul Rahman Omar That which they spend for the present life bears likeness with the wind wherein is freezing cold which smites the tilth of the people who have done injustice to themselves, so it destroys it. Allâh does no injustice to them but they wrong themselves. ### Ali Quli Qarai The parable of what they spend in the life of this world is that of a cold wind that strikes the tillage of a people who wronged themselves, destroying it. Allah does not wrong them, but they wrong themselves. ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü Onların şu süfli madde boyutunda (esfeli safiliyn - dünya hayatı) harcadıklarının misali, kendi nefslerine zulmeden bir topluluğun ekinlerine isabet edip, onu mahveden dondurucu bir rüzgara benzer. Allah onlara zulmetmedi, lakin onlar kendilerine zulmediyorlar. ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı Onların bu dünya hayatındaki harcamaları kendi nefislerine zulmetmiş olan bir kavmin ekinine isabet eden kavurucu soğukluktaki bir rüzgara benzer ki onu (ekini) helak etmiştir. Allah, onlara zulmetmedi, fakat onlar kendi nefislerine zulmetmektedirler. ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali Onların bu dünya hayatında yapmakta oldukları harcamaların durumu, kendi kendilerine zulmeden bir halkın ekinlerine musallat olan ve onu mahveden dondurucu bir rüzgara benzer. Onlara haksızlık yapan Allah değildir, fakat onlar kendi kendilerine haksızlık yapıyorlar. ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Onların bu dünya hayatında harcadıkları malların durumu, kendilerine zulmeden bir topluluğun ekinlerini vurup mahveden kavurucu ve soğuk bir rüzgarın durumu gibidir. Allah, onlara zulmetmedi. Fakat onlar kendi kendilerine zulmediyorlar. ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Bu dünya hayatında yapmakta oldukları masrafın meseli bir rüzgar meseline benzer ki onda kavurucu bir soğuk var: nefislerine zulmeden bir kavmin ekibine sataşmış da onu mahvetmektedir, ve onlara Allah zulmetmemişti ve lakin kendilerine zulmediyorlardı ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) Bu dünya hayatında yapmakta oldukları harcamaların durumu, kendilerine zulmeden bir kavmin ekinlerine isabet edip onu mahveden kavurucu soğuk bir rüzgara benzer. Allah, onlara haksızlık etmemişti, fakat onlar kendilerine zulmediyorlardı. ### Gültekin Onan Onların bu dünya hayatındaki harcamaları kendi nefislerine zulmetmiş olan bir kavmin ekinine isabet eden kavurucu soğukluktaki bir rüzgara benzer ki onu (ekini) helak etmiştir. Tanrı, onlara zulmetmedi, fakat onlar kendi nefislerine zulmetmektedirler. ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim Onların bu dünya hayaatında harc-u sarf edegeldiklerinin misali, kendilerine zulmeden bir kavmin ekinlerini vurub da mahveden, kavurucu ve soğuk bir rüzgarın haali gibidir. Onlara Allah zulmetmedi. Fakat kendileri kendilerine zulmediyorlar. ### İbni Kesir Bu dünya hayatında onların sarfettikleri şeylerin durumu; kendilerine zulmeden bir kavmin ekinlerine isabet ederek mahveden kavurucu bir rüzgarın durumuna benzer. Allah onlara zulmetmedi, ama onlar; kendilerine zulmediyorlardı. ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı Onların bu dünya hayatı için harcadıkları, kendi kendilerine zulmeden bir halkın ekinlerine musallat olan ve onu mahveden dondurucu bir rüzgara benzer: Onlara haksızlık yapan Allah değildir, fakat onlar kendi kendilerine haksızlık yapıyorlar. ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı Onların bu dünya hayatında harcadıkları şeyin örneği; kavurucu soğuk bir rüzgara benzer. Kendilerine zulmetmiş bir toplumun ekinine isabet eder de, onu helak eder. Oysa Allah, onlara zulmetmemiş fakat onlar kendilerine zulmetmişlerdir. ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Onların bu dünya hayatında harcadıkları malların durumu, nefislerine zulmeden bir topluluğun ekinine vurup onu mahveden dondurucu bir rüzgar(ın tahribatın)a benzer. Allah onlara zulmetmedi; fakat onlar, kendi kendilerine zulmediyorlardı. ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Bu dünya hayatında harcamakta olduklarının durumu, bir rüzgar örneğine benzer: Onda kavurucu bir soğuk vardır. Öz benliklerine zulmetmiş bir toplululuğun ekinine değmiş de onu mahvetmiştir. Allah onlara zulmetmedi, onlar kendilerine zulmediyorlardı. ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Onların bu dünya hayatı için harcadıkları, kendi kendilerine zulmeden bir toplumun ekinlerine musallat olan ve onu mahveden dondurucu bir kasırgaya benzer: Onlara zulmeden Allah değildir, asıl onlar kendi kendilerine zulmetmektedir. ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Onların, bu dünya hayatında, infak[1] ettikleri şeylerin durumu, kendilerine haksızlık etmiş[2] bir toplumun ekinine isabet ederek onu mahveden kavurucu bir rüzgara benzer. Allah onlara haksızlık yapmadı, onlar kendi kendilerine haksızlık yapıyorlardı. _Footnotes_ - [1] Hayırlı işlere harcadıkları ve ihtiyaç sahiplerine yardım ettikleri. - [2] Benliğine, yaradılışına uygun olmayan bir yola sapmış. ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Onların dünya yaşamında yardımlaşmak amacıyla paylaştıkları, kendilerine yazık etmiş bir toplumun ekinlerini vurarak yıkıma uğratan, kavurucu soğuklukta bir rüzgar gibidir. Allah, onlara haksızlık etmedi. Tam tersine, onlar, kendilerine yazık ettiler. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Dünya hayatında yaptıkları iyilikler (Allah için olmadığından), kavurucu soğuk bir rüzgarın, yanlışlara dalan bir topluluğun ekinini vurup mahvetmesi gibi mahvolur, (bir faydasını görmezler). Allah, onlara yanlış yapmaz, yanlışı onlar kendilerine yaparlar. ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir Bu dünya hayatında yapmakta oldukları harcamaların durumu, kendilerine haksızlık etmiş olan bir toplumun ekinlerini vurup da mahveden kavurucu rüzgârın durumuna benzer. Onlara Allah haksızlık etmedi fakat onlar kendilerine haksızlık ediyorlar.[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] Benzer mesajlar: Bakara 2:57; A‘râf 7:160, 177; Tevbe 9:70; Yûnus 10:44; Hûd 11:101; Nahl 16:33, 118; Kehf 18:49; ‘Ankebût 29:40; Rûm 30:9; Zuhruf 43:76. ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Onların, bu dünya hayatında, infak[1] ettikleri şeylerin durumu, kendilerine haksızlık etmiş[2] bir halkın ekinine isabet ederek onu mahveden kavurucu bir rüzgara benzer. Allah onlara haksızlık yapmadı, fakat onlar, kendi kendilerine haksızlık etmektedirler. _Footnotes_ - [1] İhtiyaç sahiplerine yardım etmek. - [2] Benliklerine, yaradılışlarına uygun olmayan işler yapmak. ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Onların, bu dünya hayatında, infak[1] ettikleri şeylerin durumu, kendilerine haksızlık etmiş[2] bir halkın ekinine isabet ederek onu mahveden kavurucu bir rüzgara benzer. Allah onlara haksızlık yapmadı, fakat onlar, kendi kendilerine haksızlık etmektedirler. _Footnotes_ - [1] İhtiyaç sahiplerine yardım etmek. - [2] Benliklerine, yaradılışlarına uygun olmayan işler yapmak. ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Onların dünya hayatında yaptıkları harcamalar, tıpkı kendilerine yanlış yapmış bir topluluğun ekinini vurup onu yok eden soğuk bir rüzgar gibidir.[1] Allah onlara yanlış yapmamıştır; ama onlar yanlışı kendilerine yapmaktadırlar. _Footnotes_ - [1] [Bakara 2/264,](https://quran.so/2/264) [266,](https://quran.so/2/266) [İbrahim 14/18,](https://quran.so/14/18) [Kalem 68/17](https://quran.so/68/17)-[33.](https://quran.so/68/33) ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | مَثَلُ — mathalu | Example | مثل — Mim-Se-Lam | | 2 | مَا — mā | (of) what | — | | 3 | يُنفِقُونَ — yunfiqūna | they spend | نفق — Nun-Fe-Kaf | | 4 | فِى — fī | in | — | | 5 | هَـٰذِهِ — hādhihi | this | — | | 6 | ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ — l-ḥayati | [the] life | حيي — Ha-Ye-Ye | | 7 | ٱلدُّنْيَا — l-dun'yā | (of) the world | دنو — Dal-Nun-Vav | | 8 | كَمَثَلِ — kamathali | (is) like (the) example | مثل — Mim-Se-Lam | | 9 | رِيحٍۢ — rīḥin | (of) a wind | روح — Ra-Vav-Ha | | 10 | فِيهَا — fīhā | in it | — | | 11 | صِرٌّ — ṣirrun | (is) frost | صرر — Sad-Ra-Ra | | 12 | أَصَابَتْ — aṣābat | it struck | صوب — Sad-Vav-Be | | 13 | حَرْثَ — ḥartha | (the) harvest | حرث — Ha-Ra-Se | | 14 | قَوْمٍۢ — qawmin | (of) a people | قوم — Kaf-Vav-Mim | | 15 | ظَلَمُوٓا۟ — ẓalamū | who wronged | ظلم — Zay-Lam-Mim | | 16 | أَنفُسَهُمْ — anfusahum | themselves | نفس — Nun-Fe-Sin | | 17 | فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ ۚ — fa-ahlakathu | then destroyed it | هلك — he-Lam-Kef | | 18 | وَمَا — wamā | And not | — | | 19 | ظَلَمَهُمُ — ẓalamahumu | (has) wronged them | ظلم — Zay-Lam-Mim | | 20 | ٱللَّهُ — l-lahu | Allah | — | | 21 | وَلَـٰكِنْ — walākin | [and] but | — | | 22 | أَنفُسَهُمْ — anfusahum | themselves | نفس — Nun-Fe-Sin | | 23 | يَظْلِمُونَ — yaẓlimūna | they wronged | ظلم — Zay-Lam-Mim | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-116.md · Next: https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-118.md Retrieved: 2026-08-23 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.