The Quran

سورة المؤمنون

Surah Al-Mu’minûn 23:46

The Believers · Verse 46 of 118

إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَئِهِ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا وَكَانُوا قَوْمًا عَالِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

To Pharaoh and his courtiers but they waxed proud for they were a haughty (type of) people.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

To Pharaoh and his Chiefs: But these behaved insolently: they were an arrogant people.

Ahmed Ali

To Pharaoh and his nobles who behaved with arrogance, for they were a conceited lot,

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Ali Unal

To the Pharaoh and his chiefs. But they grew arrogant in the face of them, and demonstrated that they were a haughty, self-exalting people.

Daryabadi

Unto Fir´awn and his chiefs, but they grew stiff-necked, and they were a people self-exalting.

Faridul Haque

Towards Firaun and his court members – in response they were haughty, and they were in dominance.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

To Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they behaved haughtily and they were an insolent people.

Maulvi Sher Ali

To Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they behaved arrogantly and they were a haughty people.

Muhammad Asad

unto Pharaoh and his great ones; but these behaved with arrogance, for they were people wont to glorify [only) themselves.

Muhammad Musin Khan

To Fir'aun (Pharaoh) and his chiefs, but they behaved insolently and they were people self- exalting (by disobeying their Lord, and exalting themselves over and above the Messenger of Allah).

Muhammad Pickthall

Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned (them) and they were despotic folk.

Muhammad Sarwar

to the Pharaoh and his nobles. But they behaved proudly and thought themselves superior people.

Muhammed ali Shakir

To Firon and his chiefs, but they behaved haughtily and they were an insolent people.

Rashad Khalifa

To Pharaoh and his elders, but they turned arrogant. They were oppressive people.

Shabbir Ahmed

To Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they showed arrogance. For, they were a nation of megalomaniacs.