Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Ahzab Verse 67

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And they will say, “Our Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and our elders, and they made us to go astray from the path.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And they will say, “Our Lord! We obeyed our leaders and elite, but they led us astray from the ˹Right˺ Way.

Ruwwad Translation Center

They will say, “Our Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and our elders, but they led us astray from the [right] way.

A. J. Arberry

They shall say, 'Our Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and great ones, and they led us astray from the way.

Abdul Haleem

and ‘Lord! We obeyed our masters and our chiefs, and they led us astray.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And they will say: our Lord! verily we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they led us astray from the way.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And they would say; "Our Lord! We obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us as to the (right) Path.

Abul Ala Maududi

They will say: “Our Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they turned us away from the Right Way.

Ahmed Ali

They will say: "O our Lord, we obeyed our leaders and the elders, but they only led us astray.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And they will say, “Our Lord! We followed our chiefs and our elders – so they misled us from the path!”

Ali Quli Qarai

They will say, ‘Our Lord! We obeyed our leaders and elders, and they led us astray from the way.’

Ali Ünal

And they will say: "Our Lord! Surely we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they caused us to follow a misleading path.

Amatul Rahman Omar

The people (in general) will say, `Our Lord! we obeyed our leaders and our great ones but they led us astray from (Your) path.

English Literal

And they said: "Our Lord, that we obeyed our masters/rulers , and our bigger ones/oldest so they misguided us (from) the two ways/paths/way/path ."

Faridul Haque

And they will say, “Our Lord! We followed our chiefs and our elders – so they misled us from the path!”

Hamid S. Aziz

On the day when their faces shall be turned back into the fire, they shall say, "O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!"

Hilali & Khan

And they will say: "Our Lord! Verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us from the (Right) Way.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

On the day when their leaders are turned back into the Fire, they say: O would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And they shall say: O our Lord! surely we obeyed our leaders and our great men, so they led us astray from the path;

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And they say: Our Lord! Lo! we obeyed our princes and great men, and they misled us from the Way.

Muhammad Sarwar

They will say, "Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and elders and they caused us to go astray.

Qaribullah & Darwish

And they shall say: 'Our Lord, We obeyed our masters and our eminent ones, but they misled us from the way.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And they will say: "Our Lord! Verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us from the way."

Wahiduddin Khan

They shall say, "Our Lord, we paid heed to our leaders and our elders, but they led us away from the right path.

Talal Itani

And they will say, “Lord, we have obeyed our superiors and our dignitaries, but they led us away from the way.

Tafsir jalalayn

And they, namely, those who had been the followers [of the leaders of error], shall say, `Our Lord, we obeyed our leaders (read [plural] sdatan, or sdtan, which is the plural of the plural) and elders, and they led us astray from the way, the path of guidance.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And they will say;"Our Lord! Verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us from the way."

Tawus said;

"`Our chiefs' means their nobles and `our great ones' means their scholars.