11. Surah Hud, Verse 21
اُو۬لٰٓئِكَ الَّذ۪ينَ خَسِرُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
Ola-ika allatheena khasirooanfusahum wadalla AAanhum ma kanoo yaftaroon
Those are the people who have lost their own selves. What they invented has abandoned them.
- Progressive Muslims
They are the ones who lost themselves, and what they had invented has abandoned them.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Such are those who have lost their "Self", and all their false imagery, their invented dogmas and idols will leave them in the lurch.
- Sam Gerrans
Those are they who have lost their souls, and strayed from them is what they invented.
- The Monotheist Group
They are the ones who have lost their souls, and what they had invented has abandoned them.
- Edip-Layth
They are the ones who lost their selves, and what they had invented has abandoned them.
- Aisha Bewley
Those are the people who have lost their own selves. What they invented has abandoned them.
- Rashad Khalifa
These are the ones who lose their souls, and the idols they had fabricated will disown them.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
They are verily those who exceeded themselves, and the (gods) they invented abandoned them.
- Sahih International
Those are the ones who will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.
- Muhammad Asad
It is they who have squandered their own selves-for [on the Day of Resurrection] all their false imagery will have forsaken them:
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Such are they who have lost their souls, and that which they used to invent hath failed them.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
These are they who have lost their own souls and have been forsaken and renounced by those whom they presumed to share with Allah His divine nature, who failed their expectation.
- Bijan Moeinian
They are those who wronged their soul and their inventions (false theories, false gods, etc. ) will be destroyed with them.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
They are those who have lost their ownselves, and their invented false deities will vanish from them.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
They are the ones who have lost their own souls: and the (fancies) they invented have left them in the lurch!
- Mustafa Khattab
It is they who have ruined themselves, and whatever ˹gods˺ they fabricated will fail them.
- Taqi Usmani
Those are the ones who brought loss to their own selves, and all that they used to fabricate vanished from them.
- Abdul Haleem
It is they who will have lost their souls, and what they invented will have deserted them.
- Arthur John Arberry
Those are they that have lost their souls, and that they forged has gone astray from them;
- E. Henry Palmer
Those it is who lose themselves; and that which they did devise has strayed away from them.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Such will not escape in the earth, nor have they patrons other than Allah. Doubled for them is the torment. They could not bear to hear, nor did they see.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Those are (the ones) who have lost their (own) selves, and what they used to fabricate has erred (Or: strayed; i. e., their fabrications have left them) away from them.
- George Sale
These are they who have lost their souls; and the idols which they falsely imagined, have abandoned them.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
They are the ones who have lost their own souls: And the (things) they invented have left them in the (most) difficult position!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
It is these who have suffered a loss in respect of their own souls and that (false deities) which they forged have failed them.
- Ali Quli Qarai
They are the ones who have ruined their souls, and what they used to fabricate has forsaken them.