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سورة الواقِعَة

Surah Al-Wâqi‘ah 56:46

The Great Event · Verse 46 of 96

وَكَانُوا يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى الْحِنْثِ الْعَظِيمِ

Abdul Mannan Omar

But (they) persisted in extreme sinfulness.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And persisted obstinately in wickedness supreme!

Ahmed Ali

But persisted in that greater sin,

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Ali Unal

And would persist in committing the greatest sin (of unbelief or associating partners with God and denying the afterlife).

Daryabadi

And they have been persisting in the heinous offence.

Faridul Haque

And were stubborn upon the great sin (of disbelief).

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And they persisted in the great violation.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And persisted in extreme sinfulness.

Muhammad Asad

and would persist in heinous sinning,

Muhammad Musin Khan

And were persisting in great sin (joining partners in worship along with Allah, committing murders and other crimes, etc.)

Muhammad Pickthall

And used to persist in the awful sin.

Muhammad Sarwar

and persisted in heinous sins.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And they persisted in the great violation.

Rashad Khalifa

They insisted on the great blasphemy.

Shabbir Ahmed

And stubbornly persisted in their violations.