The Quran

سورة الاٴنفَال

Surah Al-Anfâl 8:8

The Voluntary Gifts · Verse 8 of 75

لِيُحِقَّ الْحَقَّ وَيُبْطِلَ الْبَاطِلَ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُجْرِمُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

So that He might establish the truth and wipe out the falsehood, though those who had cut their ties with Allâh considered it hard.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

That He might justify Truth and prove Falsehood false, distasteful though it be to those in guilt.

Ahmed Ali

So that Truth may be affirmed and falsehood negated, even though the sinners be averse.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

(He willed it so) so as to prove the truth to be true and make it triumphant, and the falsehood to be false, however hateful this might be to the disbelieving criminals.

Daryabadi

In order that he might justify the truth and falsify the false even though the guilty ones were averse.

Faridul Haque

In order that He may prove the truth and disprove falsehood, even if the criminals get annoyed.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

That He might cause the Truth to triumph and bring the falsehood to naught, though the guilty disliked.

Maulvi Sher Ali

That HE might establish the Truth and bring to naught that which is false, although the guilty may dislike it.

Muhammad Asad

so that He might prove the truth to be true and the false to be false, however hateful this might be to those who were lost in sin.

Muhammad Musin Khan

That He might cause the truth to triumph and bring falsehood to nothing, even though the Mujrimun (disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals, etc.) hate it.

Muhammad Pickthall

That He might cause the Truth to triumph and bring vanity to naught, however much the guilty might oppose;

Muhammad Sarwar

so that the truth would stand supreme and falsehood would exist no more, even though the criminals dislike it.

Muhammed ali Shakir

That He may manifest the truth of what was true and show the falsehood of what was false, though the guilty disliked.

Rashad Khalifa

For He has decreed that the truth shall prevail, and the falsehood shall vanish, in spite of the evildoers.

Shabbir Ahmed

(That was the first armed confrontation with the opponents; the believers were greatly outnumbered and ill equipped.) He has decreed that the truth shall triumph, and the falsehood shall vanish, even as the guilty detest it.