Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Fajr Verse 16

Mufti Taqi Usmani

But when he tests him, and thus straitens his provision for him, he says, “My Lord has disgraced me.”

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

But when He tests them by limiting their provision, they protest, “My Lord has ˹undeservedly˺ humiliated me!”

Ruwwad Translation Center

But when he is tested by restricting his provision, he says, “My Lord has [undeservedly] humiliated me!”

A. J. Arberry

But when he tries him and stints for him his provision, then he says, 'My Lord has despised me.'

Abdul Haleem

but when He tries him through the restriction of his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And when He proveth him, and so stinteth Unto him his provision, he saith: 'my Lord hath despised me.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!"

Abul Ala Maududi

But when He tests him by straitening his sustenance, he says: “My Lord has humiliated me.”

Ahmed Ali

But when He tries him by restraining his means, he says: "My Lord despises me."

Ahmed Raza Khan

And if He tests him and restricts his livelihood – thereupon he says, “My Lord has degraded me!”

Ali Quli Qarai

But when He tests him and tightens for him his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’

Ali Ünal

But whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, then he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

Amatul Rahman Omar

And when He disciplines him (with affliction) and (thus) straitens for him his (means of) subsistence, he says, `My Lord has (for no reason) disgraced me.´

English Literal

And but when as long as He tested him, so He tightened/strained on him His/his provision, so he says: "My Lord humiliated/disgraced/degraded me."

Faridul Haque

And if He tests him and restricts his livelihood – thereupon he says, “My Lord has degraded me!”

Hamid S. Aziz

But whenever he tries him and restricts his subsistence, then he says, "My Lord despises me!"

Hilali & Khan

But when He tries him, by straitening his means of life, he says: "My Lord has humiliated me!"

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Nay, but you honour not the orphan,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

But whenever He trieth him by straitening his means of life, he saith: My Lord despiseth me.

Muhammad Sarwar

However, when his Lord tests him by a measured amount of sustenance, he says, "God has disgraced me".

Qaribullah & Darwish

But when He tests him by restricting his provision, he says: 'My Lord has humiliated me'

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

But when He tries him by straitening his means of life, he says: "My Lord has humiliated me!"

Wahiduddin Khan

but when He tests him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Lord has disgraced me."

Talal Itani

But whenever He tests him, and restricts his livelihood for him, he says, “My Lord has insulted me.”

Tafsir jalalayn

But when he tests him and restricts his provision for him, he says, `My Lord has humiliated me'.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

As for man, when his Lord tries him by giving him honor and bounties, then he says;

"My Lord has honored me."

But when He tries him by straitening his means of life, he says;

"My Lord has humiliated me!"

Allah refutes man in his belief that if Allah gives Him abundant provisions to test him with it, it is out of His honor for him. But this is not the case, rather it is a trial and a test, as Allah says,

أَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّمَا نُمِدُّهُمْ بِهِ مِن مَّالٍ وَبَنِينَ

نُسَارِعُ لَهُمْ فِى الْخَيْرَتِ بَل لاَّ يَشْعُرُونَ

Do they think that in wealth and children with which We enlarge them. We hasten unto them with good things. Nay, but they perceive not. (23;55-56)

Likewise, from another angle, if Allah tests him and tries him by curtailing his sustenance, he believes that is because Allah is humiliating him.

As Allah says,