54. Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 3
وَكَذَّبُوا وَاتَّبَعُٓوا اَهْوَٓاءَهُمْ وَكُلُّ اَمْرٍ مُسْتَقِرٌّ
Wakaththaboo wattabaAAoo ahwaahumwakullu amrin mustaqirr
They have denied the truth and followed their whims and desires, but everything has its time.
- Progressive Muslims
And they disbelieved, and followed their desires, and every old tradition.
- Shabbir Ahmed
For they adamantly belie the Truth and follow their desires. Yet, everything moves to its destination in stages.
- Sam Gerrans
And they denied, and followed their vain desires; but every matter is settled.
- The Monotheist Group
And they disbelieved, and followed their desires, and every old tradition.
- Edip-Layth
They rejected, and followed their desires, and every old tradition.
- Aisha Bewley
They have denied the truth and followed their whims and desires, but everything has its time.
- Rashad Khalifa
They disbelieved, followed their opinions, and adhered to their old traditions.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
And deny, and follow their own vain desires; but every matter is determined at its time.
- Sahih International
And they denied and followed their inclinations. But for every matter is a [time of] settlement.
- Muhammad Asad
for they are bent on giving it the lie, being always wont to follow their own desires. Yet everything reveals its truth in the end.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
They denied (the Truth) and followed their own lusts. Yet everything will come to a decision
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
They denied the truth when it was presented to them and treated the Messenger as one who passes himself off as someone other than he is and they followed their own lustful course and a religion of a sensuous character. But every event has its determined time and place.
- Bijan Moeinian
They deny the Lord and follow their own (low worldly) desires. Every prescribed event, however, will take place when its time arrives.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
They belied (the Verses of Allâh - this Qur’ân), and followed their own lusts. And every matter will be settled (according to the kind of deeds: good deeds will take their doers to Paradise, and similarly evil deeds will take their doers to Hell).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
They reject (the warning) and follow their (own) lusts but every matter has its appointed time.
- Mustafa Khattab
They rejected ˹the truth˺ and followed their own desires—and every matter will be settled—
- Taqi Usmani
They have rejected (the Truth) and followed their desires, while every matter has to settle (at some time).
- Abdul Haleem
They reject the truth and follow their own desires––everything is recorded––
- Arthur John Arberry
They have cried lies, and followed their caprices; but every matter is settled.
- E. Henry Palmer
And they call it a lie and follow their lusts; but every matter is settled!
- Hamid S. Aziz
And they call it a lie, and follow their own low desires; but every affair has its appointed term.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And they have cried lies and closely followed their prejudices; and every Command is settled.
- George Sale
And they accuse thee, O Mohammed, of imposture, and follow their own lusts: But every thing will be immutably fixed.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
They reject (the warning) and follow their (own) desires and every matter has its appointed time.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
They have cried lies (even to this sign) and have followed their low desires. Yet every decree (of God) shall certainly come to pass.
- Ali Quli Qarai
They denied, and followed their own desires, and every matter has a setting [appropriate to it].