Al-Qur'an Surah Fussilat Verse 48

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And whatever they used to invoke earlier will vanish from them, and they will realize that they have no way to escape.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Whatever ˹idols˺ they used to invoke besides Allah will fail them. And they will realize that they will have no escape.

Ruwwad Translation Center

Whatever they used to supplicate before will vanish from them, and they will realize that they have no escape.

A. J. Arberry

Then that they called upon before will go astray from them and they will think that they have no asylum.

Abdul Haleem

the gods they invoked before will have vanished away; they will know that there is no escape.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And there will fail them those whom they had been calling upon aforetime, and they will perceive that there is for them no shelter.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The (deities) they used to invoke aforetime will leave them in the lurch, and they will perceive that they have no way of escape.

Abul Ala Maududi

Then all those deities whom they once used to call upon shall vanish and they will come to know for sure that there is no escape for them.

Ahmed Ali

And those they used to worship will leave them in the lurch, and they will realise there is no escape for them.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And they have lost what they used to worship before, and be sure, they do not have a place to escape.

Ali Quli Qarai

What they used to invoke before has forsaken them, and they know there is no escape for them.

Ali Ünal

And those whom (they made as deities and) invoked before will surely fail them; so they will know for certain that there is no escape for them.

Amatul Rahman Omar

(Not only that) those (false gods) whom they called upon (in their worship) before that, will be lost to them, they will know for certain that they have no place of escape.

English Literal

And what they were calling from before misguided/lost from them, and they thought/assumed nothing from (an) escape/diversion (is) for them (there is no escape for them).

Faridul Haque

And they have lost what they used to worship before, and be sure, they do not have a place to escape.

Hamid S. Aziz

And away from them shall go what they called upon before, and they shall know for certain that there is no escape for them.

Hilali & Khan

And those whom they used to invoke before will fail them, and they will perceive that they have no place of refuge (from Allah's punishment).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

To Him is referred the knowledge of the Hour. And no fruit comes forth from its coverings, nor does a female bear or bring forth but with His knowledge. And on the day when He calls out to them: Where are My associates? they will say: We declare to Thee, not one of us can bear witness.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And away from them shall go what they called upon before, and they shall know for certain that there is no escape for them.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And those to whom they used to cry of old have failed them, and they perceive they have no place of refuge.

Muhammad Sarwar

Whatever they had worshipped before will disappear and they will then know that there is no way for them to escape.

Qaribullah & Darwish

Those they used to call upon before will go away from them, and they shall think that they have no asylum.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And those whom they used to invoke before (in this world) shall disappear from them, and they will perceive that they have no place of refuge.

Wahiduddin Khan

[the deities] they invoked before will have vanished; they will know that there is no escape.

Talal Itani

What they used to pray to before will forsake them, and they will realize that they have no escape.

Tafsir jalalayn

And what they used to call on, [what they used] to worship, before, in this world, of idols, has forsaken them and they suppose, they will be certain, that there is no refuge for them, no escape from the chastisement (the negation in both instances comments on the operation [implied in the nouns of actions; also the negation stands in place of the direct objects in both instances).

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يَدْعُونَ مِن قَبْلُ

And those whom they used to invoke before (in this world) shall disappear from them,

means, they will go away, and will be of no benefit to them.

وَظَنُّوا مَا لَهُم مِّن مَّحِيصٍ



and they will perceive that they have no place of refuge.

means, they will have no way of escaping from the punishment of Allah.

This is like the Ayah;

وَرَأَى الْمُجْرِمُونَ النَّارَ فَظَنُّواْ أَنَّهُمْ مُّوَاقِعُوهَا وَلَمْ يَجِدُواْ عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا

And the criminals shall see the Fire and apprehend that they have to fall therein. And they will find no way of escape from there. (18;53