Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But whereas they sought to do evil unto him, We [frustrated their designs, and thus] brought them low
Arthur John Arberry
They desired to outwit him; so We made them the lower ones
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(This failing), they then sought a stratagem against him, but We made them the ones most humiliated
Arabic
فَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَیۡدࣰا فَجَعَلۡنَـٰهُمُ ٱلۡأَسۡفَلِینَ ٩٨
Transliteration (2021)
fa-arādū bihi kaydan fajaʿalnāhumu l-asfalīn