Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
MAN NEVER TIRES of asking for the good [things of life]; and if evil fortune touches him, he abandons all hope, giving himself up to despair
Arthur John Arberry
Man wearies not of praying for good; but when evil visits him, then he is cast down and desperate
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Man does not weary of asking for good (things), but if ill touches him, he gives up all hope (and) is lost in despair
Arabic
لَّا یَسۡءَمُ ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنُ مِن دُعَاۤءِ ٱلۡخَیۡرِ وَإِن مَّسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ فَیَءُوسࣱ قَنُوطࣱ ٤٩
Transliteration (2021)
lā yasamu l-insānu min duʿāi l-khayri wa-in massahu l-sharu fayaūsun qanūṭu