Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Hijr Verse 78

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And the people of Aikah were (also) transgressors.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And the residents of the Forest were truly wrongdoers,

Ruwwad Translation Center

And the people of the Forest [Shu‘ayb] were wrongdoers.

A. J. Arberry

Certainly the dwellers in the Thicket were evildoers,

Abdul Haleem

The forest-dwellers, too, were wrongdoers

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And the dwellers of the wood surely were wrong-doers.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And the Companions of the Wood were also wrong-doers;

Abul Ala Maududi

And the people of Aykah were also wrong-doers.

Ahmed Ali

The dwellers of the Wood (near Midian) were also wicked.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And indeed the Dwellers of the Woods were unjust.

Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed the inhabitants of Aykah were [also] wrongdoers.

Ali Ünal

And the people of al-Aykah were also wrongdoers (who associated partners with God).

Amatul Rahman Omar

Certainly, the dwellers of the thicket (of Midian) were (also) a wrong doing people.

English Literal

And if owners/company (of) the thicket/dense tangled trees were unjust/oppressive (E).

Faridul Haque

And indeed the Dwellers of the Woods were unjust.

Hamid S. Aziz

And the companions of the Wood (Midian), too, were unjust;

Hilali & Khan

And the dwellers in the wood [i.e. the people of Madyan (Midian) to whom Prophet Shu'aib was sent by Allah), were also Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Verily therein is a sign for the believers.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And the dwellers of the thicket also were most surely unjust.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And the dwellers in the wood indeed were evil-doers.

Muhammad Sarwar

Since the People of the Forest were unjust,

Qaribullah & Darwish

The dwellers of the Thicket were harmdoers.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And the Dwellers of Al-Aykah, were also wrongdoers.

Wahiduddin Khan

The people of the Wood were also surely wrongdoers.

Talal Itani

The people of the Woods were also wrongdoers.

Tafsir jalalayn

And certainly (in has been softened, in other words [understand it as being] innahu) the dwellers in the wood, a huddle of trees near Midian -- these were the people of [the prophet] Shu`ayb -- were evildoers, for denying Shu`ayb.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The Destruction of the Dwellers of Al-Aykah, the People of Shu`ayb

Allah tells;

وَإِن كَانَ أَصْحَابُ الَايْكَةِ لَظَالِمِينَ




فَانتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ وَإِنَّهُمَا لَبِإِمَامٍ مُّبِينٍ