Al-Qur'an Surah Hud Verse 9

Mufti Taqi Usmani

If We give man a taste of Our mercy and then take it away from him, he becomes highly desperate, utterly ungrateful.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

If We give people a taste of Our mercy then take it away from them, they become utterly desperate, ungrateful.

Ruwwad Translation Center

If We give man a taste of Our mercy, then take it away from him, he becomes utterly despaired and ungrateful.

A. J. Arberry

And if We let a man taste mercy from Us, and then We wrest it from him, he is desperate, ungrateful.

Abdul Haleem

How desperate and ungrateful man becomes when We let him taste Our mercy and then withhold it!

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And if We let man taste mercy from us, and thereafter withdraw it from him, verily he is despairing, blaspheming.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

If We give man a taste of Mercy from Ourselves, and then withdraw it from him, behold! he is in despair and (falls into) blasphemy.

Abul Ala Maududi

If We ever favour man with Our Mercy, and then take it away from him, he becomes utterly desperate, totally ungrateful.

Ahmed Ali

If We allow man to enjoy Our favours, and then take them away from him, he becomes despondent and ungrateful.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And if We bestow man the enjoyment of some mercy from Us and later withdraw it from him; surely he is most despairing, ungrateful.

Ali Quli Qarai

If We let man taste a mercy from Us, and then withdraw it from him, he becomes despondent, ungrateful.

Ali Ünal

If We let human taste some mercy from Us, and then take it away from him, he becomes hopeless, and thankless (forgetting all Our favors to him).

Amatul Rahman Omar

And if We bestow upon a human being mercy from Us and then withdraw it from him, he is totally despairing (and) completely ungrateful.

English Literal

And if (E) We made the human/mankind taste/experience from Us mercy, then We removed it from him, that he truly is (a) despairing/hopeless (E) (insistent) disbeliever/(insisting) disbelief.

Faridul Haque

And if We bestow man the enjoyment of some mercy from Us and later withdraw it from him; surely he is most despairing, ungrateful.

Hamid S. Aziz

And if We delay from them the doom to a stated time, they will surely say, "What hinders it?" Verily, on the day it comes to them there is no averting it from them and that which they mocked shall close in on them.

Hilali & Khan

And if We give man a taste of Mercy from Us, and then withdraw it from him, verily! He is despairing, ungrateful.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And if We delay for them the chastisement for a stated period, they will certainly say: What prevents it? Now surely on the day when it will come to them, it will not be averted from them, and that which they scoffed at will beset them.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from him, most surely he is despairing, ungrateful.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And if we cause man to taste some mercy from Us and afterward withdraw it from him, lo! he is despairing, thankless.

Muhammad Sarwar

We grant a favor to the human being and then take it away from him. He becomes despairing and ungrateful.

Qaribullah & Darwish

If We let a human taste Our Mercy and then withhold it from him, he becomes desperate and ungrateful.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And if We give man a taste of mercy from Us, and then withdraw it from him, verily, he is despairing, ungrateful.

Wahiduddin Khan

When We bestow upon man a measure of Our grace and then take it away from him, he yields to despair and becomes ungrateful.

Talal Itani

If We give the human being a taste of mercy from Us, and then withdraw it from him, he becomes despairing and ungrateful.

Tafsir jalalayn

And if We cause, the disbelieving, man to taste some mercy from Us, [such as] wealth and [good] health, and then wrest it from him, lo! he is despairing, having lost hope of God's mercy, ungrateful, intensely ungrateful to Him.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The changing of Man's Attitude in Happiness and Hardship

Allah says;

وَلَيِنْ أَذَقْنَا الاِنْسَانَ مِنَّا رَحْمَةً ثُمَّ نَزَعْنَاهَا مِنْهُ إِنَّهُ لَيَيُوسٌ كَفُورٌ