Al-Qur'an Surah Al-A'raf Verse 92

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Those who rejected Shu‘aib became as if they never dwelt there. Those who rejected Shu‘aib were themselves the losers.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Those who rejected Shu’aib were ˹wiped out˺ as if they had never lived there. Those who rejected Shu’aib were the true losers.

Ruwwad Translation Center

Those who rejected Shu‘ayb became as if they had never lived there. Those who rejected Shu‘ayb were themselves the losers.

A. J. Arberry

those who cried lies to Shuaib, as if never they dwelt there; those who cried lies to Shuaib, they were the losers.

Abdul Haleem

it was as if those who had rejected Shuayb had never lived there; it was those who had rejected Shuayb who were the losers-

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Those who belied Shu'aib became as though they had never dwelt therein; those who belied Shu'aib, it is they who became the losers.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The men who reject Shu'aib became as if they had never been in the homes where they had flourished; the men who rejected Shu'aib - it was they who were ruined!

Abul Ala Maududi

Those who had charged Shu'ayb with lying became as though-they had never lived there; it is they who became utter losers.

Ahmed Ali

They who called Shu'aib a liar (disappeared) as though they had never existed; and those who called Shu'aib a liar were the ones who were ruined!

Ahmed Raza Khan

As if those who denied Shoaib had never lived in those homes; those who denied Shoaib, were themselves ruined.

Ali Quli Qarai

Those who impugned Shu'ayb became as if they had never lived there. Those who impugned Shu‘ayb were themselves the losers.

Ali Ünal

Those who denied Shu‘ayb – as though they had not lived there in abundance – those who denied Shu‘ayb (and threatened the believers with loss and ruin), it was they who were the losers.

Amatul Rahman Omar

Those who cried lies to Shu`aib became (so extinct) as though they had never dwelt therein. Those alone who had cried lies to Shu`aib were the losers.

English Literal

Those who denied Shu`aib were as if/as though they did not inhabit it/enrich/avail in it, those who denied Shu`aib were, they were the losers .

Faridul Haque

As if those who denied Shoaib had never lived in those homes; those who denied Shoaib, were themselves ruined.

Hamid S. Aziz

Those who denied Shu´eyb, became as though they had not dwelt there! - Those who had denied Shu´eyb, they were the losers!

Hilali & Khan

Those who belied Shu'aib, became as if they had never dwelt there (in their homes). Those who belied Shu'aib, they were the losers.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

So the earthquake overtook them, and they were motionless bodies in their abode --

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Those who called Shu'aib a liar were as though they had never dwelt therein; those who called Shu'aib a liar, they were the losers.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Those who denied Shu'eyb became as though they had not dwelt there. Those who denied Shu'eyb, they were the losers.

Muhammad Sarwar

Those who called Shu'ayb a liar were destroyed as though they never existed. They certainly were the ones to lose a great deal.

Qaribullah & Darwish

It seemed as if those who had belied Shu'aib had never lived there. Those who belied Shu'aib were the losers.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Those who belied Shu`ayb, became as if they had never dwelt there (in their homes). Those who belied Shu`ayb, they were the losers.

Wahiduddin Khan

those who had denied Shu'ayb became as though they had never lived there. Those who denied Shu'ayb, were themselves the losers.

Talal Itani

Those who rejected Shuaib—as if they never prospered therein. Those who rejected Shuaib—it was they who were the losers.

Tafsir jalalayn

Those who denied Shu`ayb (alladhna kadhdhab Shu`ayban, this constitutes the subject [of the sentence], the predicate of which is [introduced by the following ka-an, `as if']), it is as if (ka-an, has been softened, its subject omitted, in other words [understand it as] ka-annahum) they had never dwelt, [never] had residence, there, in those dwelling-places of theirs; those who denied Shu`ayb, they were the losers (the emphasis effected by the repetition of the relative clause [alladhna kadhdhab Shu`ayban, `those who denied Shu`ayb'] and what follows it is intended as a refutation of what they had said previously [sc. `if you follow Shu`ayb, you shall indeed be losers']).

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ شُعَيْبًا كَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْاْ فِيهَا

Those who belied Shu`ayb, became as if they had never dwelt there (in their homes).

meaning, after the torment seized them, it looked as if they never dwelled in the land from which they wanted to expel their Messenger Shu`ayb and his followers.

Here, Allah refuted their earlier statement,

الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ شُعَيْبًا كَانُواْ هُمُ الْخَاسِرِينَ



Those who belied Shu`ayb, they were the losers.

Allah tells;