Al-Qur'an Surah At-Tawbah Verse 125

Mufti Taqi Usmani

As for those who have malady in their hearts, it adds further impurity to their (initial) impurity, and they die infidels.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

But as for those with sickness in their hearts,[[ i.e., hypocrites. ]] it has increased them only in wickedness upon their wickedness, and they die as disbelievers.

Ruwwad Translation Center

But as for those in whose hearts is sickness, it only increases them in wickedness to their wickedness, and they will die while they are disbelievers.

A. J. Arberry

But as for those in whose heart is sickness, them it has increased in abomination added to their abomination, and they have died while they were unbelievers.

Abdul Haleem

but, as for the perverse at heart, each new sura adds further to their perversity. They die disbelieving.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And as for those in whose hearts is a disease, unto them it hath increased pollution to their pollution, and they die while they are infidels.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But those in whose hearts is a disease,- it will add doubt to their doubt, and they will die in a state of Unbelief.

Abul Ala Maududi

But those whose hearts are affected with the disease (of hypocrisy), every new surah added a fresh abomination to their abomination. They remained unbelievers till their death.

Ahmed Ali

But it adds disbelief to disbelief for those whose hearts are filled with doubt, and they die disbelieving.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And for those in whose hearts is a disease, it has added filth to their filth, and they died as disbelievers.

Ali Quli Qarai

But as for those in whose heart is a sickness, it only adds defilement to their defilement, and they die while they are faithless.

Ali Ünal

But as for those in whose hearts there is a sickness (that dries up the source of their spiritual life, extinguishes their power of understanding and corrupts their character), it increases them in foulness added to their foulness, and they die while they are unbelievers.

Amatul Rahman Omar

But (as regards) those in whose heart is a disease (of hypocrisy), it (- every new revelation of a chapter) certainly adds more uncleanness to their previous uncleanness and they die while they are still disbelievers.

English Literal

And but those who in their hearts/minds (is) sickness/disease, so it increased them obscenity/filth to their obscenity/filth , and they died and they are disbelieving.

Faridul Haque

And for those in whose hearts is a disease, it has added filth to their filth, and they died as disbelievers.

Hamid S. Aziz

But as for those in whose heart is a disease, it only adds wickedness to their wickedness, and they die disbelievers.

Hilali & Khan

But as for those in whose hearts is a disease (of doubt, disbelief and hypocrisy), it will add suspicion and doubt to their suspicion, disbelief and doubt, and they die while they are disbelievers.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And whenever a chapter is revealed, there are some of them who say: Which of you has it strengthened in faith? So as for those who believe, it strengthens them in faith and they rejoice.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it adds uncleanness to their uncleanness and they die while they are unbelievers.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

But as for those in whose hearts is disease, it only addeth wickedness to their wickedness, and they die while they are disbelievers.

Muhammad Sarwar

But to those whose hearts are sick, it adds more filth to their hearts and they die as disbelievers.

Qaribullah & Darwish

As for those whose hearts are diseased, they will be increased in filth added to their filth, so that they die as unbelievers.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

But as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it will add Rijs (doubt) to their Rijs (doubt); and they die while they are disbelievers.

Wahiduddin Khan

but as for those with sickness in their hearts, it adds defilement to their defilement and they die in a state of denial of truth.

Talal Itani

But as for those in whose hearts is sickness: it adds disgrace to their disgrace, and they die as unbelievers.

Tafsir jalalayn

But as for those in whose hearts is sickness, a weakness of faith, it only adds abomination to their abomination, that is, [it only adds] disbelief to their disbelief, since they disbelieve in it, and they die while they were disbelievers.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَتْهُمْ رِجْسًا إِلَى رِجْسِهِمْ

But as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it will add Rijs to their Rijs.

The Surah increases them in doubt, and brings more suspicion on top of the doubts and suspicion that they had before. Allah said in another Ayah,

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَأءٌ

And We send down in the Qur'an that which is a healing. (17;82)

and,

قُلْ هُوَ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ هُدًى وَشِفَأءٌ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يُوْمِنُونَ فِى ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَقْرٌ وَهُوَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَمًى أُوْلَـيِكَ يُنَادَوْنَ مِن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ

Say;"It is for those who believe, a guide and a healing. And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness (deafness) in their ears, and it (the Qur'an) is blindness for them. They are those who are called from a place far away (so they neither listen nor understand)." (41;44)

This indicates the misery of the hypocrites and disbelievers, since, what should bring guidance to their hearts is instead a cause of misguidance and destruction for them. Similarly, those who get upset by a type of food, for instance, will be upset and anxious even more if they are fed that food!

وَمَاتُواْ وَهُمْ كَافِرُونَ



and they die while they are disbelievers