The Quran

سورة عَبَسَ

Surah ‘Abasa 80:17

He Frowned · Verse 17 of 42

قُتِلَ الْإِنْسَانُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Ruin seize the person (- one too proud to accept the reminder)! How ungrateful he is!

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah;

Ahmed Ali

Accursed is man. How ungrateful is he!

12 more translations

Ali Unal

Human is ruined – for how thankless and disbelieving he is!

Daryabadi

Perish man! how ungrateful he is!

Faridul Haque

May man be slain – how ungrateful he is!

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Woe to man! How ungrateful is he!

Maulvi Sher Ali

Woe unto man ! How ungrateful he is !

Muhammad Asad

[But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth!

Muhammad Musin Khan

Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is!

Muhammad Pickthall

Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful!

Muhammad Sarwar

May (the disbelieving) human being be condemned! What makes him disbelieve?.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Cursed be man! how ungrateful is he!

Rashad Khalifa

Woe to the human being; he is so unappreciative!

Shabbir Ahmed

Human being destroys himself by what makes him reject the truth.