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68. Surah Al-Qalam, Verse 26

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فَلَمَّا رَاَوْهَا قَالُٓوا اِنَّا لَضَٓالُّونَۙ

Falamma raawha qalooinna ladalloon

But when they saw it, they said, ‘We must have lost our way.

  • Progressive Muslims

    But when they saw it, they said: "We have gone astray!"

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    But when they saw it, they said, "Behold, we have lost our way. "

  • Sam Gerrans

    Then when they saw it they said: “We have gone astray!

  • The Monotheist Group

    But when they saw it, they said: "We have gone astray!"

  • Edip-Layth

    But when they saw it, they said, "We have gone astray!"

  • Aisha Bewley

    But when they saw it, they said, ‘We must have lost our way.

  • Rashad Khalifa

    But when they saw it, they said, "We were so wrong!

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    When they saw (and did not recognise it) they said: "Surely we have lost the way.

  • Sahih International

    But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;

  • Muhammad Asad

    But as soon as they beheld [the garden and could not recognize] it, they exclaimed, "Surely we have lost our way!"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    But when they saw it, they said: Lo! we are in error!

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    And when they saw the orchard had been changed out of all recognition and their dreams which they cherished with unreasonable affection were simply a reverie, they said: "We must have missed our way".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    As soon as they saw their destroyed garden they said: "Are we in right place. "

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    But when they saw the (garden), they said: "Verily, we have gone astray."

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    But when they saw the (garden), they said: "We have surely lost our way:

  • Mustafa Khattab

    But when they saw it ˹devastated˺, they cried, "We must have lost ˹our˺ way!

  • Taqi Usmani

    But when they saw it (the place of the ruined garden), they said, "We have missed the way."

  • Abdul Haleem

    but when they saw the garden, they said, ‘We must have lost our way!

  • Arthur John Arberry

    But when they saw it, they said, 'Surely we are gone astray;

  • E. Henry Palmer

    And when they saw it they said, 'Verily, we have erred!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    But when they saw it (the garden), they said, "Most surely we have gone astray.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Then, as soon as they saw it, they said, "Surely we are indeed erring (people).

  • George Sale

    And when they saw the garden blasted and destroyed, they said, we have certainly mistaken our way:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    But when they saw the (garden) they said: "We have surely lost our way:

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    When they saw it (desolated) they said, `We have surely mistaken the way.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    But when they saw it, they said, ‘We have indeed lost our way!’