Al-Qur'an Surah Muhammad Verse 1

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Those who disbelieved, and prevented (others) from Allah’s way, He (Allah) has rendered their deeds vain.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Those who disbelieve and hinder ˹others˺ from the Way of Allah, He will render their deeds void.

Ruwwad Translation Center

Those who disbelieve and prevent others from Allah’s way, He will render their deeds void.

A. J. Arberry

Those who disbelieve and bar from God's way, God will send their works astray.

Abdul Haleem

God will bring to nothing the deeds of those who disbelieve and bar others from the way of God,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Those who disbelieve and hinder others from the way of Allah, He shall send their works astray.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Those who reject Allah and hinder (men) from the Path of Allah,- their deeds will Allah render astray (from their mark).

Abul Ala Maududi

Allah has caused the works of those who disbelieve and hinder people from the way of Allah to go to waste.

Ahmed Ali

THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE and obstruct (others) from the way of God will have wasted their deeds.

Ahmed Raza Khan

Allah has destroyed the deeds of those who disbelieved and prevented from Allah’s way.

Ali Quli Qarai

Those who are [themselves] faithless and bar [others] from the way of Allah—He has rendered their works fruitless.

Ali Ünal

Those who disbelieve and bar (people) from God’s way – God will render all their deeds vain.

Amatul Rahman Omar

Those who disbelieve and bar people from the path of Allâh, He renders their works go in vain,

English Literal

Those who disbelieved and prevented/obstructed from God`s way/path He misguided their deeds .

Faridul Haque

“Allah has destroyed the deeds of those who disbelieved and prevented from Allah’s way.”

Hamid S. Aziz

Those who disbelieve and turn away (people) from Allah´s way; He shall render their works ineffective.

Hilali & Khan

Those who disbelieve [in the Oneness of Allah, and in the Message of Prophet Muhammad SAW], and hinder (men) from the Path of Allah (Islamic Monotheism), He will render their deeds vain.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

So have patience, as men of resolution, the messengers, had patience, and seek not to hasten on for them (their doom). On the day when they see that which they are promised, (it will be) as if they had not tarried save an hour of the day. (Thine is) to deliver. Shall then any be destroyed save the transgressing people?

Mohammad Habib Shakir

(As for) those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah's way, He shall render their works ineffective.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Those who disbelieve and turn (men) from the way of Allah, He rendereth their actions vain.

Muhammad Sarwar

God has made devoid of all virtue the deeds of those who have disbelieved and prevented others from the way of God.

Qaribullah & Darwish

Those who disbelieve and bar from the way of Allah, Allah will cause their deeds go astray.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Those who disbelieve and hinder (men) from the path of Allah, He will render their deeds vain.

Wahiduddin Khan

God will bring to naught all the good deeds of those who are bent on denying the truth and bar [others] from the path of God.

Talal Itani

Those who disbelieve and repel from the path of God—He nullifies their works.

Tafsir jalalayn

Those who disbelieve, from among the people of Mecca, and bar, others, from the way of God, that is to say, [from] faith, He will leave their works to waste, such as giving food [to the poor] or being kind to kin, and so they will find no reward for these [works of theirs] in the Hereafter; [but] they are requited for them in this world [purely] out of His bounty, exalted be He.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The Reward of the Disbelievers and the Believers,

Allah says.

الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا


Those who disbelieve, (meaning, in the Ayat of Allah).

وَصَدُّوا

and hinder (men) (Others).

عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَضَلَّ أَعْمَالَهُمْ



from the path of Allah, He will render their deeds vain.

meaning, He renders their deeds vain and futile, and He denies them any rewards or blessings for them. This is similar to His saying,

وَقَدِمْنَأ إِلَى مَا عَمِلُواْ مِنْ عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ هَبَأءً مَّنثُوراً


And We will approach what they have done of deeds and make them as dispersed dust. (25;23)

Allah then says