39. Surah Az-Zumar, Verse 48
وَبَدَا لَهُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِه۪ يَسْتَهْزِؤُ۫نَ
Wabada lahum sayyi-atu makasaboo wahaqa bihim ma kanoo bihiyastahzi-oon
What confronts them will be the evil actions which they earned and what they used to mock at will engulf them.
- Progressive Muslims
And the sinful works they had earned will be shown to them, and they will be surrounded by that which they used to mock!
- Shabbir Ahmed
Here comes a hint - the very deeds they committed to cause imbalance in the lives of others, will appear before them. And the very things that they used to ridicule will come back to haunt and surround them. (79:36).
- Sam Gerrans
And there will appear to them the evil deeds they earned, and there will surround them that whereat they mocked.
- The Monotheist Group
And the sinful works they had earned will be shown to them, and they will be surrounded by that which they used to mock.
- Edip-Layth
The sinful works they had earned will be shown to them, and they will be surrounded by what they used to mock!
- Aisha Bewley
What confronts them will be the evil actions which they earned and what they used to mock at will engulf them.
- Rashad Khalifa
The sinful works they had earned will be shown to them, and the very things they used to mock will come back to haunt them.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
And the evil of what they had earned would become visible to them; and what they used to mock would surround them from all sides.
- Sahih International
And there will appear to them the evils they had earned, and they will be enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
- Muhammad Asad
and obvious to them will have become the evil that they had wrought [in life]: and thus shall they be overwhelmed by the very truth which they were wont to deride.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And the evils that they earned will appear unto them, and that whereat they used to scoff will surround them.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And there shall the evil deeds they had committed confront them personified, and they shall be beset on all side by the same material and immaterial things they had turned in to ridicule.
- Bijan Moeinian
Their wrongdoings will be played back to them and the very thing that they used to laugh at will backfire at them.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And the evils of that which they earned will become apparent to them, and that which they used to mock at will encircle them.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
For the evils of their Deeds will confront them, and they will be (completely) encircled by that which they used to mock at!
- Mustafa Khattab
And the evil ˹consequences˺ of their deeds will unfold before them, and they will be overwhelmed by what they used to ridicule.
- Taqi Usmani
Unveiled to them will be the evils of what they used to earn; and encircled they will be by what they used to ridicule.
- Abdul Haleem
the evil of their deeds will become plain to them, and they will be overwhelmed by that at which they used to laugh.
- Arthur John Arberry
and there would appear to them die evils of that they have earned, and they would be encompassed by that they mocked at.
- E. Henry Palmer
and the evils of what they have earned shall appear to them; but that shall close in on them at which they mocked!
- Hamid S. Aziz
And the evil (consequences) of what they wrought shall become plain to them, and the very thing they mocked at shall beset them.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And (there) would appear to them the odious (deeds) of whatever they have earned, and that whereat they used to mock would redound upon them.
- George Sale
and there shall appear unto them the evils of that which they shall have gained; and that which they mocked at shall encompass them.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And for the evils of their actions will confront them, and they will be (completely) surrounded by that which they used to mock at!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And the evil (consequences) of the deeds they had deliberately done will become clear to them. And they will be caught by the very punishment they took no account of.
- Ali Quli Qarai
The evils of what they had earned will appear to them, and they will be besieged by what they used to deride.