Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Thus he incited his people to levity, and they obeyed him: for, behold, they were people depraved
Arthur John Arberry
So he made his people unsteady, and they obeyed him; surely they were an ungodly people
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Thus did he make fools of his people, and they obeyed him: truly were they a people rebellious (against Allah)
Arabic
فَٱسۡتَخَفَّ قَوۡمَهُۥ فَأَطَاعُوهُۚ إِنَّهُمۡ كَانُوا۟ قَوۡمࣰا فَـٰسِقِینَ ٥٤
Transliteration (2021)
fa-is'takhaffa qawmahu fa-aṭāʿūhu innahum kānū qawman fāsiqīn