The Quran

سورة البَقَرَة

Surah Al-Baqarah 2:175

The Cow · Verse 175 of 286

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلَالَةَ بِالْهُدَىٰ وَالْعَذَابَ بِالْمَغْفِرَةِ ۚ فَمَا أَصْبَرَهُمْ عَلَى النَّارِ

Abdul Mannan Omar

It is these who have preferred error to guidance and punishment to protection. (The onlookers of these sufferers will say,) `How very enduring they are at (the punishment of) the Fire!´

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

They are the ones who buy Error in place of Guidance and Torment in place of Forgiveness. Ah! what boldness (They show) for the Fire!

Ahmed Ali

They are those who bartered away good guidance for error, and pardon for punishment: How great is their striving for the Fire

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Ali Unal

Such are the ones who have bought straying in exchange for guidance, and punishment in exchange for forgiveness. How they persevere in their striving to reach the Fire (and enduring it)!

Daryabadi

These are they who have purchased error for guidance, and torment for forgiveness, How enduring must they be of the Fire!

Faridul Haque

They are the people who purchased error in exchange of guidance, and torment in exchange of pardon; so how much can they bear the fire?

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Those are they who buy error for guidance and chastisement for forgiveness; how bold they are to challenge the Fire!

Maulvi Sher Ali

It is they who have bought error for guidance and punishment for forgiveness. How great is their endurance of the Fire !

Muhammad Asad

It is they who take error in exchange for guidance, and suffering in exchange for forgiveness: yet how little do they seem to fear the fire!

Muhammad Musin Khan

Those are they who have purchased error at the price of Guidance, and torment at the price of Forgiveness. So how bold they are (for evil deeds which will push them) to the Fire.

Muhammad Pickthall

Those are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, and torment at the price of pardon. How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire!

Muhammad Sarwar

They have exchanged guidance for error and forgiveness for torment. What makes them seek the fire so earnestly (for they are doomed to be punished)?

Muhammed ali Shakir

These are they who buy error for the right direction and chastisement for forgiveness; how bold they are to encounter fire.

Rashad Khalifa

It is they who chose the straying instead of guidance, and the retribution instead of forgiveness. Consequently, they will have to endure Hell.

Shabbir Ahmed

It is those who take error in exchange for guidance, and torment in exchange for the protection of forgiveness. How steadfast are they in their pursuit of the fire!