سورة الاٴعرَاف

Surah Al-A‘râf 7:177

The Elevated Places · Verse 177 of 206

سَاءَ مَثَلًا الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَأَنْفُسَهُمْ كَانُوا يَظْلِمُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Sad is the case of the people who cry lies to Our commandments and it is their own selves that they have wronged.

Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls.

Evil is the case of those who deny Our signs and wrong themselves.

12 more translations

How evil an example are the people who deny Our signs and Revelations, and (in so doing) are ever wronging themselves.

Vile is the likeness of the people who belie Our signs, and their own souls they are wont to wrong.

What an evil example is of those who denied Our signs and used to wrong only their own souls.

Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our messages and wrong their own souls.

Evil is the case of the people who treat Our Signs as lies. And it was their ownselves that they wronged.

Evil is the example of people who are bent on giving the lie to Our messages: for it is against their own selves that they are sinning!

Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses and signs, etc.), and used to wrong their ownselves.

Evil as an example are the folk who denied Our revelations, and were wont to wrong themselves.

How terrible is the example of those who have rejected Our revelations and have done injustice only to themselves!

Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our communications and are unjust to their own souls.

Bad indeed is the example of people who reject our proofs; it is only their own souls that they wrong.

Evil as an example are the people who reject Our verses, since they hurt their own ‘self’.