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وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ دَسّٰيهَاۜ

Waqad khaba man dassaha

he who covers it up has failed.

  • Progressive Muslims

    And failing is the one who buries it.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And failure is indeed he who keeps it buried (under ignorance and superstition).

  • Sam Gerrans

    And he has failed who buried it

  • The Monotheist Group

    And failing is the one who hides it.

  • Edip-Layth

    Failing is the one who hides it.

  • Aisha Bewley

    he who covers it up has failed.

  • Rashad Khalifa

    Failing is one who neglects it.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    And he who confines it will surely come to grief.

  • Sahih International

    And he has failed who instills it [with corruption].

  • Muhammad Asad

    and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And he is indeed a failure who stunteth it.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    And a loser indeed will be he who has perverted himself and by the hand of sin he is bound.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    The looser, on the contrary, is the one who does not believe in good and evil as indicated by God and commits evil deeds.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And indeed he fails who corrupts his ownself (i.e. disobeys what Allâh has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islâmic Monotheism or by following polytheism or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And he fails that corrupts it!

  • Mustafa Khattab

    and doomed is the one who corrupts it!

  • Taqi Usmani

    and failure is really suffered by him who pollutes it.

  • Abdul Haleem

    and the one who corrupts it fails.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and failed has he who seduces it.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And disappointed is he who corrupts it!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And he indeed is a failure who corrupts it!

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And he has already been disappointed who stunts it.

  • George Sale

    but he who hath corrupted the same, is miserable.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And he fails who corrupts it!

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And he indeed is ruined who corrupts it.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    and one who betrays it fails.