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Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Mutaffifin Verse 31

Al-Mutaffifin [83]: 31 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

وَاِذَا انْقَلَبُوْٓا اِلٰٓى اَهْلِهِمُ انْقَلَبُوْا فَكِهِيْنَۖ (المطففين : ٨٣)

wa-idhā
وَإِذَا
And when
inqalabū
ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟
they returned
ilā
إِلَىٰٓ
to
ahlihimu
أَهْلِهِمُ
their people
inqalabū
ٱنقَلَبُوا۟
they would return
fakihīna
فَكِهِينَ
jesting

Transliteration:

Wa izan qalabooo ilaaa ahlihimun qalaboo fakiheen (QS. al-Muṭaffifīn:31)

English / Sahih Translation:

And when they returned to their people, they would return jesting. (QS. Al-Mutaffifin, ayah 31)

Mufti Taqi Usmani

and when they went back to their family, they went enjoying their mockery,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

and muse ˹over these exploits˺ upon returning to their own people.

Ruwwad Translation Center

and when they went back to their people, they would return exulting.

A. J. Arberry

and when they returned to their people they returned blithely,

Abdul Haleem

joke about them when they got back to their own people,

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And when they returned to their household they returned jesting.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And when they returned to their own people, they would return jesting;

Abul Ala Maududi

and when they went back to their families, they went back jesting,

Ahmed Ali

And when they went back to their people turned to make fun of them;

Ahmed Raza Khan

And whilst returning to their homes, they used to return rejoicing.

Ali Quli Qarai

and when they returned to their folks they would return amused,

Ali Ünal

And when they returned to their families, they would return full of quips (about how they mocked the believers).

Amatul Rahman Omar

And when they returned to their companions they returned exulting with pride,

English Literal

And when/if they returned to their people/family , they returned enjoying/humorous .

Faridul Haque

And whilst returning to their homes, they used to return rejoicing.

Hamid S. Aziz

And when they returned to their own folk they returned exulting.

Hilali & Khan

And when they returned to their own people, they would return jesting;

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And when they saw them, they said: Surely these are in error --

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And when they returned to their own followers they returned exulting.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And when they returned to their own folk, they returned jesting;

Muhammad Sarwar

and, on returning to their people, boast about what they had done.

Qaribullah & Darwish

When they returned to their people they returned jesting;

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And when they returned to their own people, they would return jesting;

Wahiduddin Khan

and when they returned to their own people, they would speak of them jestingly;

Talal Itani

And when they went back to their families, they would go back exulting.

Tafsir jalalayn

and when they returned to their folks they would return blithely (fkihna; a variant reading has fakihna), rejoicing in their [disparaging] mention of the believers;

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And when they returned to their own people, they would return jesting.

meaning, when these criminals turn back, or return to their homes, they go back pleased.

This means that whatever they request, they find it. Yet, with this, they still are not grateful for Allah's favor upon them. Rather they busy themselves with despising and envying the believers.

وَإِذَا رَأَوْهُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّ هَوُلَاإء لَضَالُّونَ