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قُتِلَ اَصْحَابُ الْاُخْدُودِۙ

Qutila as-habu alukhdood

cursed be the Companions of the Pit –

  • Progressive Muslims

    Dead are the people of the canyon.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Destroy themselves all those who dig ditches for others.

  • Sam Gerrans

    Damned be the companions of the trench,

  • The Monotheist Group

    Destroyed will be the people of the ditch!

  • Edip-Layth

    Woes to people of the canyon.

  • Aisha Bewley

    cursed be the Companions of the Pit –

  • Rashad Khalifa

    Woe to the people of the canyon.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    That accursed are the men of the trench

  • Sahih International

    Cursed were the companions of the trench

  • Muhammad Asad

    THEY DESTROY [but] themselves, they who would ready a pit

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    (Self-)destroyed were the owners of the ditch

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    Accursed above all and devoted to perdition shall be those who cut the trench to trench on the liberty of the innocent and enjoyed witnessing their torture, their torment and their agony.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    That a blazing Hellfire is…

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Cursed were the people of the Ditch (in the story of the Boy and the King).[1]

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Woe to the makers of the pit (of fire),

  • Mustafa Khattab

    Condemned are the makers of the ditch—

  • Taqi Usmani

    cursed were the People of the Trench,

  • Abdul Haleem

    damned were the makers of the trench,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    slain were the Men of the Pit,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    The fellows of the pit were slain;

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Self-destroyed were the owners of the pit;

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Slain were (i. e., Those who dug a trench, in which they burnt the believers) the companions of the Trench,

  • George Sale

    cursed were the contrivers of the pit,

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Accursed are (unbelievers, who become) the makers of the pit (of Fire)

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (That these disbelievers will face destruction as were) destroyed the Fellows of the Trenches.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    perish the Men of the Ditch!