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Surah Al-Sâffât 37:98

Those Ranging in Ranks · Verse 98 of 182

فَأَرَادُوا بِهِ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَاهُمُ الْأَسْفَلِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Thus they designed a plan against him, but We made them to be the most humiliated.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

(This failing), they then sought a stratagem against him, but We made them the ones most humiliated!

Ahmed Ali

So they contrived a plot against him, but We made them abject.

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Ali Unal

So they intended a scheme against him (to destroy him), but We made them the ones brought low.

Daryabadi

And they devised a plot for him, but We made them the humble.

Faridul Haque

So they tried to execute their evil scheme upon him – We therefore degraded them. (Allah saved him, by commanding the fire to turn cool).

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And they designed a plan against him, but We brought them low.

Maulvi Sher Ali

Thus they designed an evil design against him, but WE made them most humiliated.

Muhammad Asad

(98) But whereas they sought to do evil unto him, We (frustrated their designs, and thus] brought them low.

Muhammad Musin Khan

So they plotted a plot against him, but We made them the lowest.

Muhammad Pickthall

And they designed a snare for him, but We made them the undermost.

Muhammad Sarwar

They plotted against him, but We brought humiliation upon them.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And they desired a war against him, but We brought them low.

Rashad Khalifa

They schemed against him, but we made them the losers.

Shabbir Ahmed

But as they schemed against him, We brought them low.

Commentary 37:98 Arâdûارَادُو – they designed, they intended. The verse only speaks of the intention to throw Abraham in a fire and not of an actual occurrence. .

فَأَرَادُوا بِهِ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَاهُمُ الْأَسْفَلِينَ

37:98 Arâdûارَادُو – they designed, they intended. The verse only speaks of the intention to throw Abraham in a fire and not of an actual occurrence. .