Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
"[It is] they whose labour has gone astray in [the pursuit of no more than] this world's life, and who none the less think that they are doing good works
Arthur John Arberry
Those whose striving goes astray in the present life, while they think that they are working good deeds
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works?"
Arabic
ٱلَّذِینَ ضَلَّ سَعۡیُهُمۡ فِی ٱلۡحَیَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡیَا وَهُمۡ یَحۡسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمۡ یُحۡسِنُونَ صُنۡعًا ١٠٤
Transliteration (2021)
alladhīna ḍalla saʿyuhum fī l-ḥayati l-dun'yā wahum yaḥsabūna annahum yuḥ'sinūna ṣun'ʿa