سورة هُود
Surah Hûd 11:21
Hûd · Verse 21 of 123
أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
It is these who have suffered a loss in respect of their own souls and that (false deities) which they forged have failed them.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
They are the ones who have lost their own souls: and the (fancies) they invented have left them in the lurch!
Ahmed Ali
They are verily those who exceeded themselves, and the (gods) they invented abandoned them.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
Such are they who have ruined their selves, and all that they fabricated (by way of false deities to worship besides God) have failed them.
Daryabadi
These are they who have lost their souls, and hath strayed from them that which they have been fabricating.
Faridul Haque
It is they who put their souls into ruin, and they lost all that they used to fabricate.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
These are they who have lost their souls, and that which they forged is gone from them.
Maulvi Sher Ali
It is these who have ruined their souls, and that which they fabricated shall fail them.
Muhammad Asad
It is they who have squandered their own selves - for [on the Day of Resurrection] all their false imagery will have forsaken them:
Muhammad Musin Khan
They are those who have lost their ownselves, and their invented false deities will vanish from them.
Muhammad Pickthall
Such are they who have lost their souls, and that which they used to invent hath failed them.
Muhammad Sarwar
They have lost their souls and their false deities will turn away from them.
Muhammed ali Shakir
These are they who have lost their souls, and what they forged is gone from them.
Rashad Khalifa
These are the ones who lose their souls, and the idols they had fabricated will disown them.
Shabbir Ahmed
Such are the ones who have lost their own ‘self’, and all their false imagery. Their invented dogmas and the idols will fail them.
Commentary 11:21 Yaftarûn يَفْتَرُونَ -“That which they forged” is a phrase which applies not merely to false deities, but also to deceptive ideas or half-truths meant to…
أُولَـٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
11:21 Yaftarûn يَفْتَرُونَ -“That which they forged” is a phrase which applies not merely to false deities, but also to deceptive ideas or half-truths meant to delude the mind (cf. 6:112), and more generally, anything that causes people to lose sight of spiritual values.