Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 21:70 | |
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| Transliteration | Waaradoo bihi kaydan fajaAAalnahumu al-akhsareena |
| Literal | And they intended with him a plot/conspiracy/deceit , so We made them the most losers. |
| Yusuf Ali | Then they sought a stratagem against him: but We made them the ones that lost most! |
| Pickthal | And they wished to set a snare for him, but We made them the greater losers. |
| Arberry | They desired to outwit him; so We made them the worse losers, |
| Shakir | And they desired a war on him, but We made them the greatest losers. |
| Sarwar | They had devised an evil plan (against Abraham), but We turned it into failure." |
| Khalifa | Thus, they schemed against him, but we made them the losers. |
| Hilali/Khan | And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the worst losers. |
| H/K/Saheeh | And they intended for him harm, but We made them the greatest losers. |
| Malik | They sought to harm him, but We made them the big losers.[70] |
| QXP | And whereas they schemed against him, We made them the true losers. (They failed to value a man of his stature). |
| Maulana Ali | And they intended a plan against him, but We made them the greater losers. |
| Free Minds | And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the losers. |
| Qaribullah | They sought to outwit him, but We made them the worst of losers. |
| George Sale | And they sought to lay a plot against him: But We caused them to be the sufferers. |
| JM Rodwell | And they sought to lay a plot against him, but we made them the sufferers. |
| Asad | and whereas they sought to do evil unto him, We caused them to suffer the greatest loss: [Inasmuch as Abraham forsook - as shown in the next verse - his homeland, and thus abandoned his people to their spiritual ignorance.] |
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