Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

“That is because you exulted in the earth without cause, and because you were filled with haughtiness.

ذٰلِكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَفْرَحُونَ فِي الْاَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَبِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَمْرَحُونَۚ
Thalikum bima kuntum tafrahoonafee al-ardi bighayri alhaqqi wabima kuntumtamrahoon
#wordmeaningroot
1dhālikumThat was
2bimābecause
3kuntumyou used toكون
4tafraḥūnarejoiceفرح
5in
6l-arḍithe earthارض
7bighayriwithoutغير
8l-ḥaqirightحقق
9wabimāand because
10kuntumyou used toكون
11tamraḥūnabe insolentمرح
  • Aisha Bewley

    ‘That is because you exulted on the earth, without any right to do so; and strutted about.

  • Progressive Muslims

    That was because you used to gloat on Earth without any right, and for what you used to rejoice.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    This is because in your life on the earth you used to take delight in what was not True, and roamed about haughtily with your false doctrines.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    “That is because you exulted in the earth without cause, and because you were filled with haughtiness.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    That was because you used to gloat on the earth without any right, and for what you used to rejoice.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    That was because you used to gloat on earth without any right, and for what you used to rejoice.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    This is because you used to rejoice in false doctrines on earth, and you used to promote them.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    "This is so because you went about exulting wrongfully in the land, " (will they be told), "and you were insolent.

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

    , "That was because you used to exult upon the earth without right and you used to behave insolently.

  • Muhammad Asad

    this is an out­come of your having arrogantly exulted on earth without any right, and of your having been so full of self-conceit!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    (And it is said unto them): This is because ye exulted in the earth without right, and because ye were petulant.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    (They will be told): "This is because while you were on earth you took delight in untruth and exulted in it.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    This train of evils you people drew after yourselves is in requital of the pleasure you unjustly derived from the early religion of sensuous character and because of your insolence to make people the instrument of your evil ambition.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    deserve to be left alone by God to follow the wrong path.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    That was because you had been exulting in the earth without any right (by worshipping others instead of Allâh and by committing crimes), and that you used to rejoice extremely (in your error).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    "That was because ye were wont to rejoice on the earth in things other than the Truth, and that ye were wont to be insolent.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    ˹They will be told,˺ "This ˹punishment˺ is for being prideful on earth unjustly and for acting arrogantly.

  • Taqi Usmani

    (It will be said to them,) "This is because you used to rejoice on the earth wrongfully, and because you used to show arrogance.

  • Abdul Haleem

    all because on earth you revelled in untruth and ran wild.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    'That is because you rejoiced in the earth without right, and were exultant.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    There! for 'that ye did rejoice in the land without right; and for that ye did exult;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    (It is said, ) "That is because you exulted in the earth unjustly and because you behaved insolently. "

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    That is (due to the fact) that you used to exult in the earth untruthfully, (Literally: without the truth) and (due to the fact) that you used to live in merriment.

  • George Sale

    This hath befallen you, for that ye rejoiced insolently on earth, in that which was false; and for that ye were elated with immoderate joy.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    (It will be said to them, ) "That was because you were used to being happy on the earth in things which were not the Truth, and that you were used to being haughty (and disrespectful).

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (It will be said to them, ) `That is because you exulted in the land without any justification and because you behaved with vanity.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    ‘That is because you used to exult unduly on the earth and because you used to walk exultantly. ’