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سورة فُصّلَت

Surah Fussilat 41:48

Clear in Exposition · Verse 48 of 54

وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَدْعُونَ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۖ وَظَنُّوا مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ مَحِيصٍ

Abdul Mannan Omar

(Not only that) those (false gods) whom they called upon (in their worship) before that, will be lost to them, they will know for certain that they have no place of escape.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The (deities) they used to invoke aforetime will leave them in the lurch, and they will perceive that they have no way of escape.

Ahmed Ali

And those they used to worship will leave them in the lurch, and they will realise there is no escape for them.

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Ali Unal

And those whom (they made as deities and) invoked before will surely fail them; so they will know for certain that there is no escape for them.

Daryabadi

And there will fail them those whom they had been calling upon aforetime, and they will perceive that there is for them no shelter.

Faridul Haque

And they have lost what they used to worship before, and be sure, they do not have a place to escape.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And those whom they called upon before will fail them, and they will know that they cannot escape.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And all that they used to call upon before will be lost to them, and they will know for certain that they have no place of escape.

Muhammad Asad

And so, all that they were wont to invoke aforetime will have forsaken them; and they shall know for certain that there is no escape for them.

Muhammad Musin Khan

And those whom they used to invoke before will fail them, and they will perceive that they have no place of refuge (from Allah's punishment).

Muhammad Pickthall

And those to whom they used to cry of old have failed them, and they perceive they have no place of refuge.

Muhammad Sarwar

Whatever they had worshipped before will disappear and they will then know that there is no way for them to escape.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And away from them shall go what they called upon before, and they shall know for certain that there is no escape for them.

Rashad Khalifa

The idols they had idolized will disown them, and they will realize that there will be no escape.

Shabbir Ahmed

And thus, those whom they used to call upon before, will utterly fail them. And they will realize that there is no way of escape.