37. Surah As-Saffat, Verse 98
فَاَرَادُوا بِه۪ كَيْداً فَجَعَلْنَاهُمُ الْاَسْفَل۪ينَ
Faaradoo bihi kaydan fajaAAalnahumual-asfaleen
They tried to outwit him but We made them the lowest.
- Progressive Muslims
So they wanted to harm him, but We made them the losers.
- Shabbir Ahmed
But as they schemed against him, We brought them low.
- Sam Gerrans
And they intended for him a plan; but We made them the lowest.
- The Monotheist Group
So they wanted to plan against him, but We made them the losers.
- Edip-Layth
So they wanted to harm him, but We made them the losers.
- Aisha Bewley
They tried to outwit him but We made them the lowest.
- Rashad Khalifa
They schemed against him, but we made them the losers.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
So they contrived a plot against him, but We made them abject.
- Sahih International
And they intended for him a plan, but We made them the most debased.
- Muhammad Asad
But whereas they sought to do evil unto him, We [frustrated their designs, and thus] brought them low?
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And they designed a snare for him, but We made them the undermost.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And they thought of contriving against him but We made them the losers who lost the most.
- Bijan Moeinian
They plotted a plan against him and God defeated them in their own plan [as the fire did not have any effect upon Abraham. ]
- Al-Hilali & Khan
So they plotted a plot against him, but We made them the lowest.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(This failing), they then sought a stratagem against him, but We made them the ones most humiliated!
- Mustafa Khattab
And so they sought to harm him, but We made them inferior.
- Taqi Usmani
So, they intended to bring harm to him, but We made them the lowest (by frustrating their plan).
- Abdul Haleem
They wanted to harm him, but We humiliated them.
- Arthur John Arberry
They desired to outwit him; so We made them the lower ones.
- E. Henry Palmer
They desired to plot against him, but we made them inferior.
- Hamid S. Aziz
And they designed a plot against him, but We brought them low.
- Mahmoud Ghali
So they were willing to devise a plot against him; yet We made them the basest.
- George Sale
And they devised a plot against him; but We made them the inferior, and delivered him.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
So (after having failed; See 21. 69), they then took a way (to hurt) against him, but We made them the ones most ashamed!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Thus they designed a plan against him, but We made them to be the most humiliated.
- Ali Quli Qarai
So they sought to outwit him, but We made them the lowermost.