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| بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ |
| 1. [7:177] | Saa mathalan alqawmu allatheenakaththaboo bi-ayatina waanfusahum kanooyathlimoona |  ساء مثلا القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا وأنفسهم كانوا يظلمونسَاءَ مَثَلاً الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا وَأَنفُسَهُمْ كَانُواْ يَظْلِمُونَ | |||||
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| Tahir ul Qadri | مثال کے لحاظ سے وہ قوم بہت ہی بری ہے جنہوں نے ہماری آیتوں کو جھٹلایا اور (درحقیقت) وہ اپنی ہی جانوں پر ظلم کرتے رہے | ||||||
| Yousuf Ali | Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls.
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| Ahmed Ali | جنہوں نے ہماری آیتوں کو جھٹلایا ان کی بری مثال ہے اور وہ اپنا ہی نقصان کرتے رہے | ||||||
| Ahmed Raza Khan | کیا بری کہاوت ہے ان کی جنہوں نے ہماری آیتیں جھٹلائیں اور اپنی ہی جان کا برا کرتے تھے، | ||||||
| Shabbir Ahmed | بہت ہی بری ہے مثال ان لوگوں کی جنہوں نے جھٹلایا ہماری آیات کو اور اپنے ہی اوپر ظلم کرتے ہیں۔ | ||||||
| Fateh Muhammad Jalandhary | جن لوگوں نے ہماری آیتوں کی تکذیب کی ان کی مثال بری ہے اور انہوں نے نقصان (کیا تو) اپنا ہی کیا | ||||||
| Mehmood Al Hassan | بری مثال ہے ان لوگوں کی کہ جھٹلایا انہوں نے ہماری آیتوں کو اور وہ اپنا ہی نقصان کرتے رہے | ||||||
| Abul Ala Maududi | بڑی ہی بری مثال ہے ایسے لوگوں کی جنہوں نے ہماری آیات کو جھٹلایا، اور وہ آپ اپنے ہی اوپر ظلم کرتے رہے ہیں | ||||||
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| Mohammad Shaikh | |||||||
| Literal | It became bad/evil an example/proverb (of) the nation those who lied/denied/falsified with Our verses/evidences, and were causing injustice/oppression (to) themselves. | ||||||
| Yusuf Ali | Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls. | ||||||
| Pickthal | Evil as an example are the folk who denied Our revelations, and were wont to wrong themselves. | ||||||
| Arberry | An evil likeness is the likeness of the people who cried lies to Our signs, and themselves were wronging. | ||||||
| Shakir | Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our communications and are unjust to their own souls. | ||||||
| Sarwar | How terrible is the example of those who have rejected Our revelations and have done injustice only to themselves! | ||||||
| H/K/Saheeh | How evil an example [is that of] the people who denied Our signs and used to wrong themselves. | ||||||
| Malik | Very bad is the example of those people who deny Our revelations and wrong their own souls.[177] | ||||||
| Maulana Ali** | Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our messages and wrong their own souls. | ||||||
| Free Minds | Miserable is the example of the people who denied Our revelations, and it was their souls that they had wronged. | ||||||
| Qaribullah | Evil is the example of those who belied Our verses; they wronged themselves. | ||||||
| George Sale | Evil is the similitude of those people who accuse our signs of falsehood and injure their own souls. | ||||||
| JM Rodwell | Evil the likeness of those who treat our signs as lies! and it is themselves they injure. | ||||||
| Asad | Evil is the example of people who are bent on giving the lie to Our messages: for it is against their own selves that they are sinning! | ||||||
| Khalifa** | Bad indeed is the example of people who reject our proofs; it is only their own souls that they wrong. | ||||||
| Hilali/Khan** | Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses and signs, etc.), and used to wrong their ownselves. | ||||||
| QXP Shabbir Ahemd** | Indeed, pitiable is the example of those who reject Our Verses, since they hurt their own "Self". | ||||||
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| ** - Read with caution - These Translations, specially those which are marked here with **, are considered either incorrect, far-fetched, non-conforming or misleading. For all translations, care must be exercised for certain verses or an alternate translation should be considered. | |||||||
| Verse(s): 1 | Surah : 7 - Al-Ar'af | Showing verse 177 of 206 in chapter 7 | |||||
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