52. Surah At-Tur, Verse 42
اَمْ يُر۪يدُونَ كَيْداًۜ فَالَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا هُمُ الْمَك۪يدُونَۜ
Am yureedoona kaydan fallatheenakafaroo humu almakeedoon
Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who are kafir.
- Progressive Muslims
Or do they intend to scheme Indeed, it is the rejecters who are schemed against.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Or do they intend a plot? But it is the deniers who are in fact entrapped. (In their spider web of falsehood).
- Sam Gerrans
Or if they intend a plan: then are those who ignore warning those caught in a plan.
- The Monotheist Group
Or do they want to make a plan? Indeed, it is the rejecters who are being planned against.
- Edip-Layth
Or do they intend to scheme? Indeed, it is the ingrates who are schemed against.
- Aisha Bewley
Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who are kafir.
- Rashad Khalifa
Are they plotting and scheming? The disbelievers' schemes backfire against them.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Or do they want to stage a deception? -- Then only those who do not believe will be the ones who will be tricked.
- Sahih International
Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve - they are the object of a plan.
- Muhammad Asad
Or do they want to entrap [thee in contradictions]? But they who are bent on denying the truth - it is they who are truly entrapped!
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Or seek they to ensnare (the messenger)? But those who disbelieve, they are the ensnared!
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Or do they only mean your annoyance and affliction with mental agitation, anxiety and trouble? But those who deny Allah shall suffer the annoyance and the grievous affliction of their minds.
- Bijan Moeinian
Do they constantly devise secret plots against our prophet? Let them know that those who devise devilish plots, their plots always backfires.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Or do they intend a plot (against you O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)? But those who disbelieve (in the Oneness of Allâh - Islâmic Monotheism) are themselves plotted against!
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot!
- Mustafa Khattab
Or do they intend to scheme ˹against the Prophet˺? Then it is the disbelievers who will fall victim to ˹their˺ schemes.
- Taqi Usmani
Or do they intend to plan to do harm (to the prophet)? Then the disbelievers themselves shall be harmed by the plan.
- Abdul Haleem
Do they think they can ensnare you? It is the disbelievers who have been ensnared.
- Arthur John Arberry
Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted.
- E. Henry Palmer
Or do they desire a plot? - but those who misbelieve it is who are plotted against!
- Hamid S. Aziz
Or do they desire to plot (or ensnare)? But those who disbelieve shall be the vanquished in their plot.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Or even would they like plotting? Then the ones who have disbelieved are they who are (circumvented) in their plotting.
- George Sale
Do they seek to lay a plot against thee? But the unbelievers are they who shall be circumvented.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Or do they intend a plot (against you)? But those who act in disbelief (in Allah) are themselves involved in a (sinful) plot!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Do they intend to wage a war (against you)? But (remember) it is those who disbelieve that will be the victims of (their own) strategy of war.
- Ali Quli Qarai
Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]? But it is the faithless who are the outmaneuvered ones!