The Quran

سورة الاٴعرَاف

Surah Al-A‘râf 7:9

The Elevated Places · Verse 9 of 206

وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَظْلِمُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And those whose scales are light (and their deeds of little account), it is they who have made their souls suffer losses because they have been unjust with regard to Our Messages.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Those whose scale will be light, will be their souls in perdition, for that they wrongfully treated Our signs.

Ahmed Ali

And those whose (deeds) are lighter in the scale shall perish for violating Our signs.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

And he whose scales are light (because they have no acceptable good deeds) – they will be those who have ruined their own selves because they were unjust to Our Revelations and signs (in both the universe and themselves).

Daryabadi

And whosesoever balances will be light - those are they who have lost themselves in respect of Our signs.

Faridul Haque

And those whose scales are light are the people who put themselves to ruin - the recompense of the injustice they used to do to Our signs.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And as for those whose good deeds are light, those are they who ruined their souls because they disbelieved in Our messages.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And as for those whose scales are light, it is they who shall have ruined their souls because of their being unjust concerning OUR Signs.

Muhammad Asad

whereas those whose weight is light in the balance - it is they who will have squandered their own selves by their wilful rejection of Our messages!

Muhammad Musin Khan

And as for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their ownselves (by entering Hell) because they denied and rejected Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.).

Muhammad Pickthall

And as for those whose scale is light: those are they who lose their souls because they used to wrong Our revelations.

Muhammad Sarwar

As for those whose bad deeds weigh heavier, they will lose their souls for their injustice to Our revelations.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And as for him whose measure (of good deeds) is light those are they who have made their souls suffer loss because they disbelieved in Our communications.

Rashad Khalifa

As for those whose weights are light, they will be the ones who lost their souls as a consequence of disregarding our revelations, unjustly.

Shabbir Ahmed

And those whose scales are light, will be the ones who have put their own ‘self’ in loss. This is because they used to replace Our revelations with manmade dogmas.